Vale ( ka, ვალე) is a town in southwestern
Georgia
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, from the city of
Akhaltsikhe,
Samtskhe-Javakheti region, at the border with
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. According to the 2014 census it has a population of 3,646.
Vale is a
border crossing point into the Turkish village of
Türkgözü, in
Posof
Posof ( ka, ფოცხოვი, Potskhovi, formerly ka, დიღვირი, Dighviri) is a district of Ardahan Province of Turkey, in the far east of the country, 75 km from the city of Ardahan. It has a border crossing with neighborin ...
district.
The town is situated on the right bank of the Potskhovi River (a tributary to the
Mtkvari
The Kura is an east-flowing river south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains which drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus east into the Caspian Sea. It also drains the north side of the Lesser Caucasus while its main tributary, the Ar ...
), on the slopes of the
Lesser Caucasus
The Lesser Caucasus, also called Caucasus Minor, is the second of the two main mountain ranges of Caucasus mountains, of length about . The western portion of the Lesser Caucasus overlaps and converges with east Turkey and northwest Iran.
It runs ...
at 1,000-1,200 m above sea level.
Vale is first recorded as a village in the 10th century. It emerged as a center of
lignite industry in the
Soviet
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era and acquired town status in 1962.
Vale houses a medieval Georgian
Church of the Theotokos originally built in the 10th century, but reconstructed as a three nave basilica in the 16th century. The town is a home to a sizable Armeno-Georgian
Catholic
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community.
See also
*
Samtskhe-Javakheti
References
Cities and towns in Samtskhe–Javakheti
Georgia (country)–Turkey border crossings
Tiflis Governorate
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