Veröffentlicht am 26.01.2010 in Caucaz.com
Nicolas Von LANDRU in Kabale / Ninigori
Übersetzt Astrid von HAGER
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© Nicolas Landru, The Horse Market Kabali
The cattle market Kabali in Kakheti, on the southeastern border of Georgia and a few kilometers from the border line with Azerbaijan away, seems like the return of a different era. This market is the largest of its kind in Georgia, in the heart of a region in which peoples and cultures overlap. This is where pastoral farming and settled life and allow insights into the exemplary tropism of dozens of local economies to the Transcaucasus.
The region of Kabali, the district Lagodekhi is a transition region. In the north and west, deep Kakheti with his wine and his Georgian traditions. In the south, the steppes of Kakheti and shepherds, which opens out to Azerbaijan, and beyond the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.
The whole area runs like a line between the complete stone wall of some of the Great Caucasus (on the other hand, Dagestan extends in Russia) and the Alazani Valley round, that alluvial river Alazani that the high risk of flooding traditionally thin settled and is now used mainly for agriculture.
Kabali The village is inhabited mostly by Azeris and is one of the oldest towns in the region. The district consists Lagodekhi composed of a very delicate ethnic structure. First, the Georgian villages, the majority make, more precisely, Imereti in western Georgia that were settled in the 1930s here to populate this then almost uninhabited area, adjacent Azeri villages, and Ossetian villages, but due to the rapid emigration North Ossetia are emptying, and finally, the ethnic groups of Dagestan (Lezgins, Avars). Even some of the villages Udis found here, a Christian ethnic group that is almost gone, and forms only a small minority in Azerbaijan. Of them are said to be descended from the ancient Caucasian Albanians.
grazing
There is a population that throughout the year round runs from north to south Kakheti as nomads and thus the region as it were held together: the ink, a pastoral people from the mountains of Tusheti in the north-east of the country, where are the summer grazing their cattle. In the fall they drive their cattle down the entire Alazani Valley to reach their winter pastures, the plains of Shiraki at the Azeri border. Also, many Azeris from the South Kakheti are shepherds and drag the season in the southern region, where they often cross the border to their "mother country" Azerbaijan. Ultimately
turns the trace of nomadism remains in the region and merges with the traditions of the sedentary and the wine of the Georgians. During the Soviet era, the nomadic peoples were semi-sedentary and often results in divided, to look after the cattle of the collective farms. The original "nomadic" cultures experienced but soon after the collapse of the USSR and a renaissance due to lack of infrastructure took the horse back to its once important place as means of transport in the local culture.
As cattle or water buffalo are used horses for transportation, but primarily as a mount for guarding the flocks of sheep that are kept for their wool and meat. These small Arabian horse remember that even 200 years ago, nomadic Turkic peoples from the steppes of Central Asia (which, together with other ethnic groups to a Bestanteil the Azeri minority) had come to this region in order to settle there.
junction of a subsistence economy
The cattle market Kabali, one of the most important centers for trade in horses, cattle or sheep, is located between two villages and appears as a vast, flat area with no more definable infrastructure along the alluvial plain of the river spreads Kabali. Quick muddy when it rains, it resembles a vast primarily, blurry Place where you can try every Sunday to sell his cattle.
The vehicles (mostly Ladas and wagon) are more or less on the sides parked in the square itself present men their cattle to negotiate the price of a horse 300-2000 Lari, according to "quality" of the animal, its age , its size and strength. Run and test drives with their carts, horses take place between the costs incurred to provide, in view of long waiting times for pastime, but this can lead sometimes to panic in the crowd.
All accessories such as saddle and stirrups, cart or harness is hand made of wood, Leather or sheepskin. While the horse market accumulates almost exclusively men, then the market for household goods, food, clothing and other products, which is housed in makeshift buildings on the other hand, the women and families Reserved. This market, as it can be found in this or in similar form throughout the Caucasus, however the most important in the south of Kakheti.
a factor of regional integration?
Like the religious festival Alaverdoba, located in the northern Kakheti, the Orthodox cathedral is traditionally organized by Alaverdi around and is open to all denominations, including the market of a meeting place Kabali for the villages and ethnic groups of this region. In this rural area where farming and to a lesser extent, grazing continue to be important elements of the private economy, it is an important issue of regional balance, to which you are coming from far away to be part of it can.
Kakheti is one of the regions in Georgia that are most influenced multi-ethnic, yet it is also considered one of the most stable regions of the country with the lowest ethno-political tensions. Although this phenomenon is linked to a variety of factors, such as the organization of local leadership, the power structures, history, geo-strategic Considerations, yet it is undoubtedly evident that all groups of this region, of which live not in isolation and live all use Georgian as a common language, united in a particular socio-economic system, which is exactly this combination of wine, pastoralism, nomadism and sedentary based.
"14 people live in Lagodekhi" conjures Bacho, who draws because of his work from house to house through the entire region in a toast. "Everyone needs everyone and all live together in peace as good neighbors."
Far from Tbilisi, Georgia is the new market of Kabali a remnant of those days where time is not as fast passed. He is a relic that has not buried the Soviet Union and - on the contrary - Georgia will not soon buried. The recent socio-economic transformations in Georgia affect only the few areas that affect the population of the capital. But they have little effect on the "ecosystem" of the province. In the absence of a sustainable economic revolution, which would be capable of a deep still in the countryside and in the pastoral society rooted structure from scratch, as the markets will revive some of Kabali Sundays micro-regions of the Caucasus.
See also photo gallery of Caucaz.com: The Kabali-cattle market
The whole area runs like a line between the complete stone wall of some of the Great Caucasus (on the other hand, Dagestan extends in Russia) and the Alazani Valley round, that alluvial river Alazani that the high risk of flooding traditionally thin settled and is now used mainly for agriculture.
Kabali The village is inhabited mostly by Azeris and is one of the oldest towns in the region. The district consists Lagodekhi composed of a very delicate ethnic structure. First, the Georgian villages, the majority make, more precisely, Imereti in western Georgia that were settled in the 1930s here to populate this then almost uninhabited area, adjacent Azeri villages, and Ossetian villages, but due to the rapid emigration North Ossetia are emptying, and finally, the ethnic groups of Dagestan (Lezgins, Avars). Even some of the villages Udis found here, a Christian ethnic group that is almost gone, and forms only a small minority in Azerbaijan. Of them are said to be descended from the ancient Caucasian Albanians.
grazing
There is a population that throughout the year round runs from north to south Kakheti as nomads and thus the region as it were held together: the ink, a pastoral people from the mountains of Tusheti in the north-east of the country, where are the summer grazing their cattle. In the fall they drive their cattle down the entire Alazani Valley to reach their winter pastures, the plains of Shiraki at the Azeri border. Also, many Azeris from the South Kakheti are shepherds and drag the season in the southern region, where they often cross the border to their "mother country" Azerbaijan. Ultimately
turns the trace of nomadism remains in the region and merges with the traditions of the sedentary and the wine of the Georgians. During the Soviet era, the nomadic peoples were semi-sedentary and often results in divided, to look after the cattle of the collective farms. The original "nomadic" cultures experienced but soon after the collapse of the USSR and a renaissance due to lack of infrastructure took the horse back to its once important place as means of transport in the local culture.
As cattle or water buffalo are used horses for transportation, but primarily as a mount for guarding the flocks of sheep that are kept for their wool and meat. These small Arabian horse remember that even 200 years ago, nomadic Turkic peoples from the steppes of Central Asia (which, together with other ethnic groups to a Bestanteil the Azeri minority) had come to this region in order to settle there.
junction of a subsistence economy
The cattle market Kabali, one of the most important centers for trade in horses, cattle or sheep, is located between two villages and appears as a vast, flat area with no more definable infrastructure along the alluvial plain of the river spreads Kabali. Quick muddy when it rains, it resembles a vast primarily, blurry Place where you can try every Sunday to sell his cattle.
The vehicles (mostly Ladas and wagon) are more or less on the sides parked in the square itself present men their cattle to negotiate the price of a horse 300-2000 Lari, according to "quality" of the animal, its age , its size and strength. Run and test drives with their carts, horses take place between the costs incurred to provide, in view of long waiting times for pastime, but this can lead sometimes to panic in the crowd.
All accessories such as saddle and stirrups, cart or harness is hand made of wood, Leather or sheepskin. While the horse market accumulates almost exclusively men, then the market for household goods, food, clothing and other products, which is housed in makeshift buildings on the other hand, the women and families Reserved. This market, as it can be found in this or in similar form throughout the Caucasus, however the most important in the south of Kakheti.
a factor of regional integration?
Like the religious festival Alaverdoba, located in the northern Kakheti, the Orthodox cathedral is traditionally organized by Alaverdi around and is open to all denominations, including the market of a meeting place Kabali for the villages and ethnic groups of this region. In this rural area where farming and to a lesser extent, grazing continue to be important elements of the private economy, it is an important issue of regional balance, to which you are coming from far away to be part of it can.
Kakheti is one of the regions in Georgia that are most influenced multi-ethnic, yet it is also considered one of the most stable regions of the country with the lowest ethno-political tensions. Although this phenomenon is linked to a variety of factors, such as the organization of local leadership, the power structures, history, geo-strategic Considerations, yet it is undoubtedly evident that all groups of this region, of which live not in isolation and live all use Georgian as a common language, united in a particular socio-economic system, which is exactly this combination of wine, pastoralism, nomadism and sedentary based.
"14 people live in Lagodekhi" conjures Bacho, who draws because of his work from house to house through the entire region in a toast. "Everyone needs everyone and all live together in peace as good neighbors."
Far from Tbilisi, Georgia is the new market of Kabali a remnant of those days where time is not as fast passed. He is a relic that has not buried the Soviet Union and - on the contrary - Georgia will not soon buried. The recent socio-economic transformations in Georgia affect only the few areas that affect the population of the capital. But they have little effect on the "ecosystem" of the province. In the absence of a sustainable economic revolution, which would be capable of a deep still in the countryside and in the pastoral society rooted structure from scratch, as the markets will revive some of Kabali Sundays micro-regions of the Caucasus.
See also photo gallery of Caucaz.com: The Kabali-cattle market
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