Daba (settlement)
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Daba (Georgian: დაბა) is a type of human settlement in Georgia, a "small town".[1][2] It is equivalent to an urban-type settlement in some other countries of the former Soviet Union.
In present-day Georgia, daba is typically defined as a settlement with a population of no fewer than 3,000 and established social and technical infrastructure, which enables it to function as a local economic and cultural center; it, furthermore, should not possess large agricultural lands. The status of daba can also be granted to a settlement with a population of fewer than 3,000, provided it functions as an administrative center of the district (municipality) or has a prospect of further economic and population growth in the nearest future.[1]
Etymology
[edit]Daba is the term well known in Old Georgian, where it had the meaning "cornfield, hamlet". It is derived from a Common Kartvelian root *dab(a), which is also a source of the Svan däb, "cornfield", and, possibly, the Mingrelian dobera (dobira), "arable land". The derivative words are udabno, "desert", and mdabali, "low".[3] The name daba is also a basis for several placenames in Georgia, such as Daba, Akhaldaba ("new daba"), Q'veldaba ("cheese daba"), and Dabadzveli ("old daba").
List of daba in Georgia
[edit]As of 2011, 50 settlements are categorized in Georgia as daba. These, listed according to a population size (2002 census), are:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 (in Georgian) მოხელის სამაგიდო ლექსიკონი / გაეროს განვითარების პროგრამა; [შემდგ.: სამსონ ურიდია და სხვ.; რედ.: ვაჟა გურგენიძე] - თბ., 2004 - 483გვ.: ცხრ.; 24სმ. - (საჯარო მოსამსახურის ბ-კა). - ISBN 99940-0-063-2.
- ↑ Allen, William Edward David (1932, reissued 1971), A History of the Georgian People: From the Beginning Down to the Russian Conquest in the Nineteenth Century, p. 240. Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-7100-6959-6.
- ↑ Klimov, Georgy (1998), Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages, p. 36. Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-015658-X.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Law of Georgian on Occupied Territories (431-IIs, October 23, 2008) Archived June 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. State Ministry for Reintegration. Retrieved on December 15, 2011.
