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Ochamchire was a city of 18,700 people in 1978 but was left largely abandoned by the ethnic ... Ravenswood in north-eastern Queensland was a ghost town for many ...
Ochamchire evolved as a town from a small maritime settlement, which was a scene of fighting between the Russians and Turkish-Abkhaz forces in 1877. [4]The ancient Greek colony of Gyenos (Greek: Γυένος) is supposed to have located near Ochamchire, though the identification cannot be considered as definitive because of doubts as to the actual location and the very poor preservation of the ...
[note 1] It is situated on the river Ghalidzga (Aaldzga) and a railway connects it with Ochamchire. Akarmara, an area within the town, is a ghost town with abandoned apartments and factories which became uninhabited in the early 1990s due to the War in Abkhazia (1992-1993), and is home to just 35 residents today. [2]
Map of subdivisions of Abkhazia. During the Soviet-era, the Abkhaz ASSR was divided into six raions (districts) named after their respective capitals.. The administrative divisions of the disputed Republic of Abkhazia have stayed the same, with one exception: in 1995, Tkvarcheli District was created around the town of Tkvarcheli from parts of the Ochamchira and Gali districts.
Think of “ghost towns” and images of dusty, lost-to-time towns, like those in America’s Wild West, may come to mind. But a new era of ghost towns is now emerging that, while eerie, feels far ...
If any of these ghost towns are likely to have any ghosts, it’d be Govan, the town in Lincoln County with several notorious unsolved murders. The city boomed around 1890 in keeping with Central ...
Ochamchira District is a district of the partially recognised Abkhazia.Its capital is Ochamchire, the town by the same name.The district is smaller than the Ochamchire district in the de jure subdivision of Georgia, as some of its former territory is now part of Tkvarcheli District, formed by de facto Abkhaz authorities in 1995.
The Districts of Abkhazia are the first-level subdivisions of Abkhazia. [Note 2]Districts are led by the Head of the Administration, who is simultaneously Mayor of the District's capital, except in the case of Sukhumi.