Tok :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

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Georgia (Country) / Javakhk (District) / Aspindza (District) / Tok (Village)

Location

The village is situated at the edge of a gorge lying on the right bank of the river Parvana, 12 kilometres north-west of Akhalkalak in a straight line, at an average altitude of 1,600 metres above sea level.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.

Historical Introduction
1595 y․

In 1595 Tok had a population of 10 houses and paid 12,000 akches to the state.

“გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი”, էջ 201: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.

Population
1829 — 1830 yy․

Between 1829 and 1830, some Armenian resettlers from Western Armenia came to add to the number of the inhabitants of this Turkish village.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.

1914 y․

After the Armenians had left Tok, it again turned into a purely Turkish village (it had 504 residents in 1914) and remained as such until the banishment of the entire Turkish population of the region in 1944. Later Tok was re-inhabited by several Georgian families. After a period of more than a century, it again saw Armenian inhabitants who formed 6 houses in 1988.

”Кавказский календарь на 1915 г.”, Тифлис, 1914, стр. 188. Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.

As confirmed by the available statistical sources, the number of the newly-settled Armenian inhabitants of Tok slightly increased during the 1840s, but it started decreasing in the early 1850s. Between 1855 and 1856, the village was totally stripped of it

Dates	Armenian Houses	Armenians (Male)	Armenians (Female)	Total (Armenians)	Notes	Source
1840		101	100	201		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 3800, թ. 4: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1841		95	81	176		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 3802, թ. 65-66: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1842		100	85	185		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 3805, թ. 78-79: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1844		109	97	206		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 3809, թ. 16-17: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1845		112	104	216		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 3811, թ. 70-71: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1847		115	108	223		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 3814, թ. 35-36: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1849		119	111	230		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 3818, թ. 39-40: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1851	20	80	77	157		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 56, ց. 1, գ. 2596, թ. 30: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1853		92	88	180		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 2743, թ. 37-38: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.
1854		94	90	184		Հայաստանի ազգային դիվան, (National Archives of Armenia), ֆ. 53, ց. 1, գ. 3825, թ. 48-49: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 209.