The village was founded in 1830 by
Pontic Greeks from a village of the same name in the
Trebizond Vilayet in the
Ottoman Empire. Sameba is located 5 kilometers to the west of the city of
Tsalka, which is the district's main city. In the 1930s one could still find older residents speaking the
Pontic dialect of Greek. After the
Second World War some people in the village retained the language, but the rest switched to speaking
Turkish and
Russian. By the time of the collapse of the USSR there were about 700 households in Gunia-Kala, in which there lived more than 2000 people. In 2002 236 residents remained in the village, 72% of which were Greeks and 18% Georgians. ==See also==