From the History of the Village of Golgoleti in Ksani Gorge

Abstract

The paper talks about the past of the mountainous village of Golgoleti in the Ksani gorge, which is now
a village and is located in the Karchokhi community of Akhalgori municipality.
The memory of the population of Karchokhi gorge has very little information about Golgoleti today. Only
elderly people have heard a little about this ancient Georgian village, which is mentioned in the book of the
noun of the 10th century Samtavisi Cathedral. Nevertheless, the demographic data that has come down to
us by analyzing the lists of economic nature, the records of Georgian and foreign authors or the Ksanis oral
tradition, as well as by observing the stories of the population of the neighboring villages and observing the
settlements, it is possible to restore the past picture of the village.
The census data of the Ksani Saeristavo of the second half of the 18th century, together with the Samtavisi
Cathedral book and folklore data, allow us to separate the two diVerent villages of the Kenkadzes – Kenkaantkari, and Golgoleti and to locate them with more or less accuracy.
A study of the village's past reveals that the Golgotha boundaries included a vast area southwest of modern-day Kenkan, which includes the Bezhuang, Mzarebuli, and Zakutanta districts, where traces of settlements,
castles, shrines, and arable lands intersect.
The paper also talks about rural toponyms, pastures, ridges, ravines, springs, mills, and natural minerals
... The reasons and consequences of the migration of the population from the village are outlined. Part of
the population of Golgoleti settled in the neighboring village of Kenkaani, part – in the villages of Kartli and
KakhetiMost of the Kenkadzes settled in the Shirak plain, in the upper ridge, where the migration of the population from the Ksani gorge begins in the 1910s