Abanoskhevi

Abanoskhevi
აბანოსხევი
Abanoskhevi

Location in Georgia

Coordinates: 42°1′35″N 44°45′53″E / 42.02639°N 44.76472°E / 42.02639; 44.76472Coordinates: 42°1′35″N 44°45′53″E / 42.02639°N 44.76472°E / 42.02639; 44.76472
Country Georgia
Region Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Municipality Dusheti
Elevation 580 m (1,900 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total 471

Abanoskhevi (Georgian: აბანოსხევი) is a village in Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, Georgia. It is part of the Lapanaantkari commune, Dusheti municipality, with the population of 471, mostly (97%) ethnic Georgians, as of the 2002 census.[1][2]

Abanoskhevi is located on both banks of the Abanoskhevi river, a left tributary of the Aragvi, at 580 meters above sea level, 13 km. southeast of the town of Dusheti. The earliest archaeologically confirmed traces of human habitat on modern Abanoskhevi's territory date back to the Neolithic era, c. 4,000 BC.[3]

References

  1. ↑ (Georgian) საქართველოს მოსახლეობის 2002 წლის პირველი ეროვნული საყოველთაო აღწერის ძირითადი შედეგები, ტ. II: საქართველოს სოფლების მოსახლეობა ("The results of the 2002 population census of Georgia, vol. 2: The population of villages of Georgia"). National Statistics Office, 2003. Accessed June 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ 2002 Georgia census data. Population statistics of Eastern Europe. Accessed June 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Nazarova, A.F.; Alkhutov,S.M. (2008), "Anthropology and Genetics of the Caucasus Peoples and the Problem of the Origin of the Caucasoids", p. 56. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Vol. 66, No. 1.


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