Samshvilde (village)

Samshvilde სამშვილდე
Village
Samshvilde in 2010
Samshvilde Location of Samshvilde
Coordinates: 41°30′58″N 44°29′27″E / 41.51611°N 44.49083°ECoordinates: 41°30′58″N 44°29′27″E / 41.51611°N 44.49083°E
Country	Georgia
Region	Kvemo Kartli
Municipality	Tetritsqaro
Elevation	860 m (2,820 ft)
Population (2014)[1]
• Total	443

Samshvilde (Georgian: სამშვილდე) 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.^[2]

The environs of the village, on the middle Khrami River, are a protected area as the Natural Monument of the Samshvilde Canyon.^[3]

Population

As of the 2014 national census, Samshvilde had the population of 443,^[1] mostly (98%) ethnic Armenians.^[4]

Population	2002 census	2014 census
Total	517[4]	443[1]

References

1. "Population Census 2014: Number of Population by Administrative-Territorial Units and sex". National Statistics Office of Georgia. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
2. Volkova, NG (1984). "Материалы экономических обследований Кавказа 1880-х годов как этнографический источник" [Materials of economic surveys of the Caucasus of the 1880s as an ethnographic source]. Kavkazskiy etnograficheskiy sbornik (in Russian). Moscow. VIII: 220.
3. "სამშვილდის კანიონის ბუნების ძეგლი [Samshvilde Canyon Natural Monument]" (in Georgian). Agency of Protected Areas of Georgia. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
4. "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]" (PDF) (in Georgian). National Statistics Office of Georgia. 2003. Retrieved 28 September 2016.