Samshvilde (village)

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]

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

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.^[5]

Population	2002 census	2014 census
Total	517[5]	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. "Festival in Shamshulda Village". armenianchurch.ge. Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Holy Church in Georgia.
3. 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). VIII. Moscow: 220.
4. "სამშვილდის კანიონის ბუნების ძეგლი [Samshvilde Canyon Natural Monument]" (in Georgian). Agency of Protected Areas of Georgia. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
5. "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.