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Sameba Monuments

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Location

The village lies on the south-eastern shore of Lake Madatapa, 21 kilometres south-east of the district centre of Ninotzminda in a straight line, at an altitude of 2,110 to 2,125 metres above sea level.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 450.

Population
1840 y․

In the 1840s, it was inhabited by a number of Russian sectarians who constituted 859 souls in 1914.

“Кавказский календарь на 1915 г.”, Тифлис, 1914, стр. 190. Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 450.

1990 — 2003 yy․

In the 1990s, some Ajar resettlers arrived at Sameba, where they comprised 8 families in 2003.

ბურდიაშვილი მ., სტუდენტური მოძრაობა ჯავახეთის გადარჩენას ცდილობს, “აკცენტი”, 05-06. 06. 2003, N 42: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 450.

2004 y․

In 2004 the author of a press publication wrote with regret that 10 years before, over 25 Georgian families had taken up living in the village, whereas at the time his article was being prepared (2004), only 3 of them remained there.

მაისურაძე კ., ჯავახეთში ქართული სკოლები იხურება, Gეორგიან თიმეს, 17-24. 06. 2004,N 24: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 450.

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