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Pshavi ((グルジア語:ფშავი)) is a small historic region of northern Georgia, nowadays part of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti ''mkhare'', ("region"), and lying chiefly among the southern foothills of the Greater Caucasus mountains along the Pshavis Aragvi River and the upper reaches of the Iori River in the neighbouring region of Tianeti to the south-east. ==Geography== Pshavi borders upon Khevsureti to the north (the two regions were historically grouped together under the name of Pkhovi); the western fringe of Tusheti and the northernmost tip of the Pankisi Gorge to the east; the Iori Valley and Tianeti to the south-east; the Jinvali Reservoir and the Georgian Military Road to the south and south-west; and south-eastern Mtiuleti and Gudamakari to the west. The region can be divided into three main parts (valley systems): * 1) a historical "heartland" of ''c''.10 villages in Pshavi "proper", which stretches east from the confluence of the Pshavis Aragvi and Khevsuretis Aragvi rivers (42°25'32.87"N, 44°56'35.46"E) to the village of Ukanapshavi (42°24'25.11"N, 45°09'55.52"E), centred upon the village of Shuapkho. * 2) the ''c''.30 villages of "Lower Pshavi" (main village: Magharoskari), which stretches south along the banks of the Pshavis Aragvi river from its confluence with the Khevsuretis Aragvi down to the shores of the Jinvali Reservoir (42°09'01.53"N, 44°46'29.21"E), and which includes the Chargali, Sharakhevi and Sondiskhevi valleys as well as numerous other small side-valleys. * 3) a half-dozen villages along the upper reaches of the Iori River Valley, which flows south into Tianeti. Like many other regions of the world, particularly mountainous ones, the population of Pshavi has dropped significantly as a result of a process of rural exodus which began in the nineteenth century; many former villages nowadays consist of no more than a few houses. An early twentieth-century census of Pshavi〔Sergi Mak'alatia, ''Pshavi'', Tbilisi: 1934; see http://www.batsav.com/pages/pshavi-population-census-makalatia.html〕 counted 210 households in Pshavi "proper" and 368 in Lower Pshavi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pshavi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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