FROM THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF AKHLOURTKARI IN THE KSANI GORGE

Abstract

The article talks about the occupied Akhalgori municipality village of Akhlourtkari.
When talking about the antiquities of the village, the attention is focused on the shrines of St. George, Sami, Lomtmshven, Elia Tezbiteli, Furi, as well as the shrines of St. Giorgi and Kyritskhoveli built in the neighboring village of Kveldaba, on those religious rituals that were characteristic of the life of the mountaineers of the Ksani valley. It is about estates called khatimitsi, their cultivation and harvest distribution.
The work also pays attention to the original inheritance of the relatives; They moved from the village of Khoshara in the back of Pshavi in the Ksani valley, the root surname was Gabidauri. The Tinikashvili, Balashvili and Khokrishvili who migrated from the Aragvi valley to Ksan are considered cousins of their relatives. They still firmly protect the well-known tradition of exogamy established in Pshav since time immemorial. We find the first reports about the neighborhood in the statistical descriptions of the Ksni valley of the second half of the 18th century.
In the work, for the first time, the data of Russian chamber descriptions of the 19th century are published, which makes the research topic more important and relevant. The analysis of the sources begins with the first chamber census of 1804, followed by the censuses of 1814, 1821, 1830-1832, 1843, 1860, 1873 and 1886. The population of the 20th century is discussed according to the union censuses of 1923 and the following years and the first national census of 2002.
Census data of the 18th-20th centuries allow us to get to know the economic situation in the village, social relations, categories of peasants and taxes along with the demographic situation. The lands in the village belonged to the representatives
of the ancestral house of the Ksani people. The migration of the population from the village started in the 60s of the 20th
century. The paper analyzes the reasons and consequences of the migration of the people to the foothills of the mountains and to the bar of Kartli. The microtoponyms of the village are explained: mountains, ridges, springs, arable areas, valleys, ravines... The reasons and consequences of population migration from the village are analyzed. In order to better present the past of the village, together with historical sources, attention is paid to the folklore material preserved by the population of the Ksani valley.