Blaburkhva Explained

Blaburkhva (Abkhazian: Блабырхәа; Georgian: ბლაბურხვა, also spelled Blabyrkhua) is a village in the Gudauta District of Abkhazia.

Population

According to the 1959 Soviet Census, 167 people (all Abkhazians) lived within the village itself, with a total of 827 people living within the Blaburkhva village council (which consisted of four additional settlements).^[1] By 1989, 151 people lived in the settlement, which was still composed entirely of Abkhazians.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Untitled . 13 July 2024 . Ethno-Caucasus.
2. Web site: All-USSR census 1989 in Abkhazian ASSR . 13 July 2024 . pop-stat.mashke.
3. Putkaradze . Tariel . 24 June 2008 . Linguistic Situations in Conflict Regions – The Abkhazia Border within Russia according to 1989 Census Data and Politicized Linguistic Maps . SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics . 5 . 1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230514221759/http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL11/pdf_doc/5.pdf . 14 May 2023 .