From the History of Sadzeguri Village of 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 if you have heard a little about this ancient Georgian village, which is mentioned in the book of the way out of the tenth century Samtavisi Cathedral. Nevertheless, the demographic sisterhood that has come down to usBy analyzing the lists of economic nature, the records of Georgian and foreign authors or the Ksna 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 statistical descriptions 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 different 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, natural minerals ... The reasons and consequences of 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 10s of the XX century.

The paper draws parallels between the past and the present and shows the dire consequences of the occupation of the Akhalgori region after the August 2008 war. These results turned out to be especially tragic for the Karchokhi Valley, where most of the villages, like Golgotha, already exist todayHas become a village.