 The Georgianisation of Georgia's toponymy has been a steady process since the 1930s.It affected placenames of Azeri origin, such as the renaming of Barmaksiz () to Tsalka in 1932, Aghbulagh () to Tetritsqaro in 1940 (by direct translation), Bashkicheti () to Dmanisi, Karaiazi () to Gardabani, and Sarvan () to Marneuli all in 1947.According to the locals, in the 1960s residents of three villages near Gardabani petitioned to Moscow against the plan of renaming their villages, and the names were kept.