Akhalzikh, or AKISKA, a town of Russian Transcaucasia, 110 miles W. of Tiflis, on an affluent of the Kur. It is the seat of a Greek archbishopric, and maintains an active trade. Pop. 13,800, fully two-thirds of whom are Armenians.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 116
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