Ninotsminda ( Georgian: ნინოწმინდა ;

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: Նինոծմինդա) is a town and a center of the eponymous municipality located in Georgia's southern district of Samtskhe-Javakheti. According to the 2014 census the town has a population of 5,144. The vast majority of the population are

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History

Translation of the current official name of the settlement means "Saint Nino" in English and it was given to the town in honor of the illuminator of Georgians St. Nino, in 1991. During the

Ottoman rule Ottoman is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, ‘uthmān). It may refer to: Governments and dynasties * Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924 * Ottoman Empire, in existence fro ...

, this was a

sanjak Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...

of Çıldır Eyaleti, called Altunkale, which means "golden castle" in Turkish. Before 1991, the town of Ninotsminda was called Bogdanovka (russian: Богдановка) - a name going back to the history of the

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settlement in the region in the 1840s.Hedwig Lohm, "Dukhobors in Georgia: A Study of the Issue of Land Ownership and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Ninotsminda rayon (Samtskhe-Javakheti)". November 2006. Available i
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After the conquest of Kars in 1878, some Doukhobors from Bogdanovka moved to the newly created

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. Twenty years later, some of them (or their descendants) emigrated from Kars Oblast to

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, where they established a short-lived village named Bogdanovka in Langham district of

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. Another group of emigrants, coming straight from Georgian Bogdanovka, established another Bogdanovka near

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Demographics

The Georgian census of 2014 counted 24,491 residents in Ninotsminda municipality, of which 23,262 (95%) were

, and 1,029 (4.2%) were Georgians. In Soviet Union, Doukhobor population of the region was in comparatively favorable conditions, isolated from attention of civil officials as population of ethnically mixed borderline region. In the 1990s, following the collapse of Soviet Union and rise of nationalist pressure (both local Armenian and state-imposed Georgian), a significant part of remaining Russian settlers abandoned their homes to settle in Russia.Джавахетские проблемы Грузии. России ахалкалакцы здесь больше не нужны? 18.06.2006. России ахалкалакцы здесь больше не нужны? Иракли Чихладзе, "Солидарность" выпуск №2

Notable people

Gurgen Dalibaltayan Gurgen Harutyun Dalibaltayan ( hy, Գուրգեն Հարությունի Դալիբալթայան; 5 June 1926 – 1 September 2015) was an Armenian military commander. He was the Chief of General Staff of Armenian Armed Forces during the 1992 ...

- Armenian general * Davit Lokyan - Armenian minister of Territorial and Development * Nairi Sedrakyan - Armenian mathematician

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Ninotsminda District
* Kalmakoff, Jonathan J

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