Ninotsminda
{{for|the cathedral|Ninotsminda Cathedral}}
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Ninotsminda
| native_name = ნინოწმინდა
| native_name_lang = ka
| settlement_type = Town
| image_skyline = Ninotsminda.jpg
| image_caption = Ninotsminda environs
| pushpin_map = Georgia (country)#Samtskhe-Javakheti
| mapsize = 280px
| map_caption = Location of Ninotsminda in Georgia
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{Flag|Georgia (country)}}
| subdivision_type1 = Mkhare
| subdivision_name1 = Samtskhe-Javakheti
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Ninotsminda
| area_magnitude =
| area_total_km2 = 38
| area_land_km2 = 23
| area_water_km2 = 22
| population_as_of = 2024
| population_footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://geostat.ge/media/61960/1-3-population-by-cities-and-boroughs.xlsx |title=Population by regions |publisher=National Statistics Office of Georgia |access-date=29 April 2024 }}
| population_total = 3955
| population_density_km2 = 45
| timezone = Georgian Time
| utc_offset = +4
| timezone_DST =
| utc_offset_DST =
| coordinates = {{coord|41|15|52|N|43|35|27|E|region:GE|display=inline}}
| elevation_m = 1940
| website =
| footnotes =
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Ninotsminda (Georgian: ნინოწმინდა {{IPA|ka|ninotsʼminda||}}; Armenian: Նինոծմինդա) is a town and a center of the Ninotsminda Municipality located in Georgia's southern district of Samtskhe-Javakheti. According to the 2014 census the town has a population of 5,144.{{Georgian census 2014}} The vast majority of the population are Armenians.
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.{{cn|date=June 2021}}
During the Ottoman rule, this was a sanjak of Çıldır Eyaleti, called Altunkale, which means "golden castle" in Turkish.{{cn|date=June 2021}}
Before 1991, the town of Ninotsminda was called Bogdanovka ({{langx|ru|Богдановка}}) - a name going back to the history of the Doukhobor 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 in [http://www.ecmi.de/download/working_paper_35_en.pdf English] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602192825/http://www.ecmi.de/download/working_paper_35_en.pdf |date=2010-06-02 }} and [http://www.ecmi.de/download/working_paper_35_rus.pdf Russian] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902195014/http://www.ecmi.de/download/working_paper_35_rus.pdf |date=2010-09-02 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details.html?rec=725 |title=The Doukhobor Gazetteer - Search Details |access-date=2008-01-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718210132/http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details.html?rec=725 |archive-date=2011-07-18 }} (Doukhobor Genealogy Website) After the conquest of Kars in 1878, some Doukhobors from Bogdanovka moved to the newly created Kars Oblast. Twenty years later, some of them (or their descendants) emigrated from Kars Oblast to Canada, where they established a short-lived village named Bogdanovka in Langham district of Saskatchewan.[http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details.html?rec=191 Bogdanovka, Langham District, SK] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050401155846/http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details.html?rec=191 |date=2005-04-01 }} (Doukhobor Genealogy Website) Another group of emigrants, coming straight from Georgian Bogdanovka, established another Bogdanovka near Pelly, Saskatchewan.[http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details.html?rec=81 Bogdanovka, Pelly District, SK] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050117200450/http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details.html?rec=81 |date=2005-01-17 }} (Doukhobor Genealogy Website)
Demographics
The Georgian census of 2014 counted 24,491 residents in Ninotsminda municipality, of which 23,262 (95%) were Armenians, 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.[http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/print/98190.html 17 марта 2006 г. Брянская область готовится принять партию русских духоборов с Кавказа \\ Патриархия.ru/АНН]
[http://www.rg.ru/2008/01/22/chernoz/duhobory.html Духоборы из Малого Снежетка. Первые переселенцы обустраиваются на новом месте. Евгений Писарев, Тамбовская область \\ "Российская газета" - Черноземье №4568 от 22 января 2008 г.][http://newregion.info/news.php?i=1795 Джавахетские проблемы Грузии. России ахалкалакцы здесь больше не нужны? 18.06.2006. России ахалкалакцы здесь больше не нужны? Иракли Чихладзе, "Солидарность" выпуск №2] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721225419/http://newregion.info/news.php?i=1795 |date=2011-07-21 }}
Notable people
- Artur Goroyan - Armenian racing driver
- Gurgen Dalibaltayan - Armenian general{{cn|date=September 2020}}
- Davit Lokyan - Armenian minister of Territorial and Development{{cn|date=September 2020}}
- Nairi Sedrakyan - Armenian mathematician{{cn|date=September 2020}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.samtskhe-javakheti.ge/en/index.php?ur=ninotsminda Ninotsminda District]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Kalmakoff, Jonathan J. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718210132/http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details.html?rec=725 The Doukhobor Gazetteer]
{{Cities and towns in Georgia (country)}}
{{coord|41|15|52|N|43|35|27|E|region:GE_type:city|display=title}}