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Khetsqvara

Azhara (Upper Abkhazia) Municipality, Abkhazia

Khetsqvara, also Khetskvara, is a village of western Georgia, in Azhara Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, in the community of Azhara.

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About

The name Khetskvara is of Abkhaz origin; it goes back to akhatsa and means the gully of the hornbeam. It seems that Khetskvara was first the name of the gully and was then given to the village.

The village lies on the southern slope of the main ridge of the Caucasus of Abkhazia, on the bank of the Khetskvari, a right tributary of the Kodori, 880 metres above sea level; it is 87 kilometres from Gulrifshi. In 1949 the village belonged to the rural soviet of Azhara.

The people of the village are Georgians.

At the 1959 census the village had 86 inhabitants; the census of 1989 counted 35 people. At the census of 2002 the village had 9 inhabitants — 8 men and 1 woman.

Region

Abkhazia

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Settlements
522
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