Chlou
Chlou
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|---|---|
Location within Georgia Location within Abkhazia | |
| Country |  Georgia |
| Partially recognized independent country |  Abkhazia |
| District | Ochamchire |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,609 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4 |
Chlou (Georgian: ჭლოუ; Abkhaz: Ҷлоу) is a village in Ochamchire Municipality, Abkhazia, Georgia.
Demographics
At the time of the 2011 census, Chlou had a population of 1,609. Of these, 95.4% were Abkhaz, 3.3% Georgian, 0.7% Russian, 0.1% Ukrainian and 0.1% Armenian.
Boris Adleiba[ru], the first secretary of the Abkhazian regional committee of the Communist Party who was first to sign the 1989 Lykhny Declaration was from Chlou. The letter was a major cause of the 1989 Sukhumi Riots. Beslan Butba, the owner of Abaza TV is also from Chlou.