Tsalka

Tsalka
წალკა

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Tsalka
წალკა

Location of Tsalka in Georgia

Coordinates: 41°35′0″N 44°05′0″E / 41.58333°N 44.08333°E / 41.58333; 44.08333Coordinates: 41°35′0″N 44°05′0″E / 41.58333°N 44.08333°E / 41.58333; 44.08333
Country  Georgia
Mkhare Kvemo Kartli
Population (2002)
 • Total 1 700
Time zone Georgian Time (UTC+4)

Tsalka (Georgian: წალკა [tsʼɑlkʼɑ]), is a town and municipality center 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% Caucasus Greeks, 12% Georgian, and 9.5% Azerbaijanis. Some of Tsalkan Greeks are Turkophone, and are known as Urums. In the past they used to be the majority in the town of Tsalka but now their weight considerably decreased due their return to homeland Greece and duo to emigration .

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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Georgia’s Armenian and Azeri Minorities, 22 November 2006 (free registration needed to view the full report) Archived September 15, 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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