Samshvilde (village) explained

Official Name:Samshvilde
Native Name:სამშვილდე
Native Name Lang:geo
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Georgia (country)
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Samshvilde
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name: Georgia
Subdivision Name1:Kvemo Kartli
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Tetritsqaro
Population As Of:2014
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:443
Coordinates:41.5161°N 44.4908°W
Elevation M:860

Samshvilde (Georgian: სამშვილდე, Armenian: Սամշվիլդե, also Շամշուլդա, Shamshulda)[2] is a village in the Tetritsqaro Municipality, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia. It is located 4 km south of the town of Tetritsqaro and 2 km north of the ruins of the medieval town of Samshvilde. The village was founded by a group of Armenians in the early 19th century and named after the nearby historical locale.[3]

The environs of the village, on the middle Khrami River, are a protected area as the Samshvilde Canyon Natural Monument.[4]

Population

As of the 2014 national census, Samshvilde had the population of 443,[1] mostly (98%) ethnic Armenians.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Population Census 2014: Number of Population by Administrative-Territorial Units and sex. National Statistics Office of Georgia. 28 September 2016.
  2. Web site: Festival in Shamshulda Village. armenianchurch.ge. Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Holy Church in Georgia.
  3. Volkova. NG. Материалы экономических обследований Кавказа 1880-х годов как этнографический источник. Kavkazskiy Etnograficheskiy Sbornik. 1984. VIII. 220. Materials of economic surveys of the Caucasus of the 1880s as an ethnographic source. Moscow. Russian.
  4. Web site: სამშვილდის კანიონის ბუნების ძეგლი [Samshvilde Canyon Natural Monument]]. Agency of Protected Areas of Georgia. 7 October 2016. Georgian.
  5. Web site: საქართველოს მოსახლეობის 2002 წლის პირველი ეროვნული საყოველთაო აღწერის შედეგები, ტომი II [Results of the first national census of the population of Georgia in 2002, volume II]]. National Statistics Office of Georgia. 28 September 2016. Georgian. 2003.