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Akhkerpi
Akhkerpi ( ka, ახკერპი) is a village in Georgia (country), Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli region, located in the extreme southwestern part of Marneuli Municipality at the Armenia–Georgia border, border with Armenia. The village is about southwest of the municipal center Marneuli and south of capital Tbilisi. Achkerpi is the center of the eponymous administrative community (თემი, ''temi'') that includes the nearby villages of Chanakhchi and Verkhviani. Achkerpi has a vehicular border crossing with Armenia, which is the least used border checkpoint in Georgia with 133 incoming foreign travellers in 2019. In the border area with Armenia a few religious-cultural heritage sites are claimed by both countries, which has led to friction between the Georgian and Armenian churches. Demography According to the last census of 2014, the village of Achkerpi had 610 residents. Two of the three villages that make up the administrative Achkerpi community are mono-ethnic Armen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenia–Georgia Border
The Armenia–Georgia border (, ka, სომხეთ-საქართველოს საზღვარი, ') is the international boundary between Armenia and Georgia (country), Georgia. It is in length and runs from the tripoint with Turkey in the west to the tripoint with Azerbaijan in the east. Description The border starts in the west at the tripoint with Turkey and proceeds overland to the tripoint with Azerbaijan via a series of irregular lines and a small section in the east along the Debed river. The western, more mountainous section of the boundary contains two lakes situated quite close to the frontier – Madatapa Lake, Madatapa (in Georgia) and Lake Arpi, Arpi (in Armenia). History During the 19th the Caucasus region was contested between the declining Ottoman Empire, Qajar Iran, Persia and Russia, which was expanding southwards. Russia formally annexed the eastern Georgian Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti in 1801, followed by the western Georgian Kingdom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
