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Vaqiri
Sign in to savethumb|View of Vaqiri and the Alazani Valley Vaqiri (or Vakiri) is a village in Georgia, in the region of Kakheti, Signagi Municipality. The village lies on the northeastern foothills of the Gombori Range, approximately 9 km from Sighnaghi at an elevation of 420 m. At the 2014 census its population was 1,950, almost entirely ethnic Georgian.
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thumb|View of Vaqiri and the Alazani Valley Vaqiri (or Vakiri) is a village in Georgia, in the region of Kakheti, Signagi Municipality. The village lies on the northeastern foothills of the Gombori Range, approximately 9 km from Sighnaghi at an elevation of 420 m. At the 2014 census its population was 1,950, almost entirely ethnic Georgian.
==History== In 1772, the Baltic German naturalist Johann Anton Güldenstädt, conducting fieldwork in the eastern Caucasus for the Russian Academy of Sciences, carried out research in the village.
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