| Meşəbaş | |
|---|---|
| Municipality | |
  Meşəbaş | |
| Coordinates: 41°24′32″N46°52′28″E / 41.40889°N 46.87444°E Coordinates: 41°24′32″N46°52′28″E / 41.40889°N 46.87444°E | |
| Country |  |
| Rayon | Qakh |
| Elevation | 425 m (1,394 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 382 |
| Time zone | AZT (UTC+4) |
| • Summer (DST) | AZT (UTC+5) |
Meşəbaş (also, Meshabash) is a village and municipality in the Qakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 382. It was historically the Georgian village Tkistavi. The great majority of the population are ethnic Georgians. [1]
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west and Iran to the south. The exclave of Nakhchivan is bounded by Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and has an 11 km long border with Turkey in the northwest.
Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital and largest city is Tbilisi. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 square kilometres (26,911 sq mi), and its 2017 population is about 3.718 million. Georgia is a unitary semi-presidential republic, with the government elected through a representative democracy.
The Georgians or Kartvelians are a nation and indigenous Caucasian ethnic group native to Georgia. Large Georgian communities are also present throughout Russia, Turkey, Greece, Iran, Ukraine, United States, and throughout the European Union.
