DIGITALVILLAGES

Nº 00 Kvemo Kartli · Kakheti · Tbilisi

GEORGIA’SAZERBAIJANIVILLAGES

Schools, places, language and memories. We gather the villages’ cultural memory from published sources and together with the communities themselves.

Explore the villages The school series

Nº 01Our aim

WE KEEPTHE MEMORY

Dvill is a cultural heritage project. Its only purpose is to preserve the cultural memory of the Azerbaijani communities of Georgia: their schools, places, language, stories and family photographs.

01Culture, not politics.
02Every fact sourced, every photo credited.
03Made with the communities, not about them.

Nº 02In numbers

268,832

Azerbaijanis in Georgia, 2024 census.

116

Azerbaijani-language schools in Georgia, 2021/22

Source: Report.az, 2 November 2021 (2021/22 school year).

For comparison: in 2006, 148 Azerbaijani-language schools were recorded in Kvemo Kartli alone (Ş. Məmmədli, 2006, p. 6).

Share of Azerbaijanis in selected municipalities

Marneuli
Kvemo Kartli
85.6%
Dmanisi
Kvemo Kartli
66.9%
Bolnisi
Kvemo Kartli
62.6%
Gardabani
Kvemo Kartli
48.5%
Sagarejo
Kakheti
37.2%
Lagodekhi
Kakheti
26.9%
Telavi
Kakheti
9.1%

Tbilisi: 26,255 people (2.0% of the city’s population). Smaller communities live elsewhere in Georgia.

Source: Geostat, 2024 Population and Agricultural Census (as of 14 November 2024).

Nº 03Villages

ONE VILLAGE,
ONE PAGE

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Nº 04Series

VILLAGE
SCHOOLS

In Georgia’s Azerbaijani villages the school is often the heart of the village, the place where children first learn to read and write in their mother tongue. The series covers twelve schools; each one gets its own post on Instagram.