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Davnia 2 Monuments

Georgia (Country) / Javakhk (District) / Akhalkalak (District) / Davnia (Village)

Location

Davnia is situated on the north-facing slope of a mountain rising on the left bank of the Kodola—the right tributary of the river Kur—on the road leading to Khavet, 22 kilometres south-west of Akhalkalak in a straight line, at an altitude of 1,710 to 1,760 metres above sea level.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 155.

Population
1914 y․

By 1914 the village site of Davnia, once populated by Armenians, had turned into a Turkish village of 96 souls.

“Кавказский календарь на 1915 г.”, Тифлис, 1914, էջ 115: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 155.

1944 y․

It became derelict after the banishment of its Muslim inhabitants in 1944, but in the same year, several Armenian families moved here from Bezhano (their forefathers were from Karin District and had resettled in Janjgha (Bezhano) Village, Javakhk in 1830. In 1987 Davnia represented a small, but purely Armenian-inhabited village of 33 houses with 128 residents, whose number had grown to 129 by 1988.

As attested by the registers of the Village Council. Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, pp. 155-156.

Type Photo
View Exterior
Direction From the south
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․