Tsalka
Tsalka (Georgian: წალკა, Armenian: Ծալկա, Azerbaijani: Barmaqsız, Greek: Τσάλκα, Russian: Цалка), is a town in southern Georgia's Kvemo Kartli region.
Population
The district had a population of 22,000. According to the 2002 census 55% of its population is Armenian, 22% Greek, 12% Georgian, and 9.5% Azerbaijanis. Some of these Greeks are Turkophone, known as Urums, who in the past used to be the majority in the town - their numbers considerably lessened by emigration (repatriation).
Several thousands of ethnic Georgians who had suffered from landslides in Svaneti and Adjara were settled in Tsalka in 1997-2006.[1] The town and its district has experienced occasionally violent ethnic division in the recent decade.
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