Merkheuli


Merkheuli is a village in Abkhazia. A 2011 census recorded a population of 839 people.

History

Merkheuli was established in 1879.
Following the Armenian Genocide, many Armenians resettled in the town and they became the majority of the town's population.

Notable people

, chief of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945, was born in Merkheuli in 1899.

Population

Climate

Merkheuli has a humid subtropical climate

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