Tskhinvali

Tskhinvali is the capital city of the republic of , self-declared and de-facto country with limited recognition which has seceded from , which sits in the region of Georgia. As of 2019, it was home to 32,000 people.
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  • Type: City with 34,200 residents
  • Description: city in South Ossetia, Georgia
  • Also known as: “Chreba”, “Cxinval”, “Krtskhilvani”, “Krtskhinvali”, “Stavinir”, “Ts’khinvali”, and “Tskhinval”
  • Historically known as: “Stalinir” and “Staliniri”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Mary’s Church.

Church
Photo: Ponkipo, CC0.
The St. Mary's Church, also called Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, is a church of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the center of Tskhinvali, the capital of , a de facto independent region claimed by Georgia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gujabauri and Tamarasheni.

Village
is a settlement in the Tskhinvali district of , .

Locality
is a former village in , within the territory controlled by separatist , some 0.5 km north of Tskhinvali. Per Georgian administrative division the village is in region.

Village
is a village in the region of central . It is the birthplace of Patriarch Kyrion II of Georgia. Nikozi is one of Georgia's oldest villages and home to early Christian churches and historical monuments.

Tskhinvali

Latitude
42.2257° or 42° 13′ 32″ north
Longitude
43.97° or 43° 58′ 12″ east
Population
34,200
Elevation
874 metres (2,867 feet)
Open location code
8HJ56XGC+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2706851374
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
611403
Wiki­data ID
Q79863
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tskhinvali” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Zchinwali”
  • Albanian: “Chinvali”
  • Arabic: “تسخينفالي”
  • Armenian: “Ցխինվալ”
  • Armenian: “Ցխինվալի”
  • Asturian: “Tsjinvali”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sxinvali”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tsxinvali”
  • Bashkir: “Цхинвал”
  • Basque: “Tskhinvali”
  • Belarusian: “Цхінвал”
  • Belarusian: “Цхінвалі”
  • Bengali: “তঁসাখিনভালি”
  • Bengali: “স্কিনভালি”
  • Bosnian: “Chinvali”
  • Bosnian: “Tskhinvali”
  • Bulgarian: “Цхинвал”
  • Bulgarian: “Цхинвали”
  • Catalan: “Staliniri”
  • Catalan: “Tsjinvali”
  • Catalan: “Tskhinvali”
  • Catalan: “Tskinvali”
  • Cebuano: “Ts’khinvali”
  • Cebuano: “Tskhinvali”
  • Chechen: “Цхинвали”
  • Chinese: “Tskhinvali”
  • Chinese: “茨欣瓦利”
  • Chinese: “茨辛瓦利”
  • Chinese: “茲辛瓦利”
  • Croatian: “Chinvali”
  • Czech: “Cchinval”
  • Czech: “Cchinvali”
  • Danish: “Tskhinvali”
  • Dutch: “Stalinir”
  • Dutch: “Tschinvali”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сталинири”
  • Eastern Mari: “Цхинвал”
  • Eastern Mari: “Цхынвал”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تسخينفالى”
  • Erzya: “Цхинвал ош”
  • Esperanto: “Cĥinvalo”
  • Estonian: “Tshinvali”
  • Finnish: “Tshinval”
  • Finnish: “Tshinvali”
  • Finnish: “Tšinvali”
  • Finnish: “Tskhinval”
  • Finnish: “Tskhinvali”
  • French: “Chreba”
  • French: “Staliniri”
  • French: “Tshinvali”
  • French: “Tskhinval”
  • French: “Tskhinvali”
  • French: “Цхинвал”
  • French: “ცხინვალი”
  • Gagauz: “Țhinvali”
  • Gagauz: “Tshinvali”
  • Galician: “Tskhinvali”
  • Georgian: “სტალინირი”
  • Georgian: “ცხინვალი”
  • German: “Staliniri”
  • German: “Tschinwali”
  • German: “Tskhinvali”
  • German: “Zchinwal”
  • German: “Zchinwali”
  • Greek: “Τσχινβάλι”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ખીન્વલી”
  • Hebrew: “סטאלינרי”
  • Hebrew: “סטלינירי”
  • Hebrew: “צ’רבה”
  • Hebrew: “צחינבאלי”
  • Hebrew: “צחינבלי”
  • Hebrew: “צחינוואל”
  • Hebrew: “צחינוואלי”
  • Hebrew: “צחינוולי”
  • Hindi: “खिनवाली”
  • Hindi: “तस्किनवाली”
  • Hungarian: “Chinvali”
  • Icelandic: “Tskinval”
  • Iloko: “Tskhinvali”
  • Indonesian: “Tskhinvali”
  • Interlingua: “Tskhinvali”
  • Irish: “Tskhinvali”
  • Italian: “Chinvali”
  • Italian: “Chreba”
  • Italian: “Staliniri”
  • Italian: “Tskhinval”
  • Italian: “Tskhinvali”
  • Japanese: “ツヒンヴァリ”
  • Japanese: “ツヒンバリ”
  • Japanese: “ツヒンワリ”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿಸ್ಕಿನ್ವಾಲಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Цхинвал”
  • Kirghiz: “Цхинвал”
  • Kölsch: “Zchinwali”
  • Komi: “Цхинвал”
  • Komi: “Чреба”
  • Korean: “쯔힌발리”
  • Korean: “츠힌발리”
  • Kurdish: “Çînwali”
  • Latin: “Schinuvalium”
  • Latvian: “Chinvala”
  • Latvian: “Chinvali”
  • Lithuanian: “Cchinvalas”
  • Lithuanian: “Cchinvalis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Zchinwali”
  • Macedonian: “Цхинвал”
  • Macedonian: “Цхинвали”
  • Malay: “Tskhinvali”
  • Marathi: “तस्सिनवली”
  • Mazanderani: “تسخینوالی”
  • Mazanderani: “سخینوالی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tskhinvali”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tskhinvali”
  • Minangkabau: “Tskhinvali”
  • Mingrelian: “ცხინვალი”
  • Moksha: “Цхинвали”
  • Mongolian: “Цхинвал”
  • Mongolian: “Цхинвали”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tschinwali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Staliniri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tskhinvali”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cchinvali”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cxinvali”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tjreba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tskhinvali”
  • Norwegian: “Tskhinvali”
  • Novial: “Tskhinvali”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tskhinvali”
  • Ossetian: “Сталинир”
  • Ossetian: “Цхинвал”
  • Ossetian: “Чъреба”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਖ਼ਿਨਵਾਲੀ”
  • Persian: “تسخین والی”
  • Persian: “تسخینوالی”
  • Persian: “چخینوال”
  • Persian: “چخینوالی”
  • Persian: “چربا”
  • Persian: “سخینوالی”
  • Persian: “شینوالی”
  • Polish: “Cchinwali”
  • Polish: “Staliniri”
  • Portuguese: “Tesquinváli”
  • Portuguese: “Tsequinváli”
  • Portuguese: “Tskhinvali”
  • Pushto: “تسخینوالی”
  • Romanian: “Ţhinvali”
  • Romanian: “Țhinvali”
  • Romanian: “Ţinvali”
  • Romanian: “Ținvali”
  • Romanian: “Tskhinvali”
  • Russian: “Сталинир”
  • Russian: “Сталинири”
  • Russian: “Цхинвал”
  • Russian: “Цхинвали”
  • Rusyn: “Цхінвалі”
  • Rusyn: “Чреба”
  • Sardinian: “Tskhinvali”
  • Scots: “Tskhinvali”
  • Serbian: “Ћинвали”
  • Serbian: “Цхинвали”
  • Serbian: “Чкинвали”
  • Serbian: “Шинвали”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chinvali”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ćinvali”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tskhinvali”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tškinvali”
  • Sinhala: “ට්ස්කින්වලි”
  • Slovak: “Cchinval”
  • Slovak: “Cchinvali”
  • Slovenian: “Chinval”
  • Slovenian: “Chinvali”
  • Slovenian: “Stalinir”
  • Spanish: “Chinvali”
  • Spanish: “Chreba”
  • Spanish: “Staliniri”
  • Spanish: “Tsjinval”
  • Spanish: “Tsjinvali”
  • Spanish: “Tskhinval”
  • Spanish: “Tskhinvali”
  • Spanish: “Tskinvali”
  • Swedish: “Tschinval”
  • Swedish: “Tschinvali”
  • Tagalog: “Tskhinvali”
  • Tajik: “Схинвалӣ”
  • Tajik: “Схинволӣ”
  • Talysh: “Sxinvali”
  • Tamil: “திஸ்கின்வாலி”
  • Tatar: “Цхинвал”
  • Telugu: “ఖిన్వాలి”
  • Thai: “ซคินวาลี”
  • Turkish: “Şinval”
  • Turkish: “Şinvali”
  • Turkish: “Staliniri”
  • Turkish: “Tshinval”
  • Turkish: “Tshinvali”
  • Turkish: “Tskhinvali”
  • Udmurt: “Цхинвал”
  • Ukrainian: “Цхінвал”
  • Ukrainian: “Цхінвалі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cchinwali”
  • Urdu: “تسخینوالی”
  • Urdu: “جنوبی اوسیشیا کا دارالحکومت”
  • Uzbek: “Sxinvali”
  • Veps: “Chinval”
  • Vietnamese: “Tskhinvali”
  • Volapük: “Zkinval”
  • Volapük: “Zkinvali”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tskhinval”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tskhinvali”
  • Welsh: “Tskhinvali”
  • Wu Chinese: “茨欣瓦利”
  • Yakut: “Цхинвали”
  • Yue Chinese: “茲辛瓦利”
  • Zulu: “i-Tskhinvali”

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