Balanta :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

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Georgia (Country) / Javakhk (District) / Borjom (District) / Balanta (Village)

Location

The village is situated 24 kilometres north of Akhalkalak in a straight line, between 1,920 and 1,960 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 91.

Historical Introduction
1595 y․

The tax list of the Ottoman Government (1595) mentions Balanta as comprising no rayas in its population and paying 12,000 akches to the state.

“გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი”, էջ 209: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 91.

At present it has a mixed population of Georgians and Armenians.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 91.

Population
1914 — 1944 yy․

Balanta did not have an Armenian population in the pre-Soviet years. In 1914 it represented a purely Georgian village with 329 inhabitants. In the Soviet years, and particularly after 1944, when the Meskhetian Turks were put to mass exile, a considerable part of the local Georgians moved to the village of Minaza (Minadze), Akhaltskha District. As for Balanta, it was re-inhabited by Armenians from the adjacent villages (especially, from Bezhano).

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 91.

Description

At present this Georgian village forms part of the district of Borzhom.