Gardabani
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Gardabani გარდაბანი |
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 Georgia
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| Region : | Niederkartlien | ||
| Municipality : | Gardabani | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 28 ′ N , 45 ° 6 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 290 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 10,753 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | Georgian Time (UTC + 4) | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
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Gardabani ( Georgian გარდაბანი ) is a city in southeast Georgia .
geography
It is located in the Niederkartlien region (Kwemo Kartli) and is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name Gardabani . Gardabani is about 40 kilometers in a straight line southeast of the center of the state capital Tblissi and some 10 kilometers southeast of the regional capital of Rustavi , where the river Kura (Georgian Mtkvari ) created level (Georgian გარდაბნის ვაკე , Gardabnis Wake ; "level of Gardabani"), about five kilometers away from its left bank. The border with Azerbaijan runs almost ten kilometers southeast of the city.
Gardabani has about 10,753 inhabitants (2014). The city is located in a part of Georgia that is largely inhabited by Azerbaijanis . About 70% Azerbaijanis lived in the city in 2006 (2006).
history
With the opening of the corresponding section of the oldest railway line in the country, the Poti – Baku railway , Gardabani received a connection to the railway and a station in 1883 .
Until the 20th century the place had the Azerbaijani name Karajasy (Russian form, after the nearby medieval fortress Karatepe , Azerbaijani Qaratəpə ). After the genocide of the Syrian Christians in 1915, survivors from the Anatolian region of Bohtan fled to the then Russian-dominated village. The new Aramaic language they brought with them, Bohtan-New Aramaic , is spoken today only in this place and its surroundings. In 1947 it was renamed Gardabani and given the status of a rural settlement.
In the 1960s, the location was chosen as the location for the Tbilisi thermal power station (Russian: Tibilisskaja GRES ), which was built a few kilometers to the west. As a result, the population of the place grew rapidly, so that it received city rights in 1969.
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1970 | 9.131 |
| 1979 | 13,661 |
| 1989 | 17.176 |
| 2002 | 11,768 |
| 2014 | 10,753 |
Note: census data
economy
In addition to the thermal power plant, which supplies the nearby city of Rustavi with its steelworks and the capital Tbilisi with electrical energy and partly with district heating , there are companies in the food (canning) and light industry as well as the building materials industry. The city is surrounded by an important agricultural area, which is criss-crossed by irrigation canals.
traffic
The Georgian border station for trips to and from Azerbaijan is located on the Poti – Baku railway line on the northern outskirts of Gardabani .
There is a road connection in the direction of Rustavi and further to the villages on the left of the Kura to the Azerbaijani border.
sons and daughters of the town
- Gotscha Jamarauli (* 1971), Georgian footballer
- Mariam Kewchishvili (* 1985), Georgian shot putter
- Eşqin Quliyev (* 1990), Azerbaijani footballer
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population Census 2014 ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Study ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the GTZ and the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (Russian)
- ↑ Article Gardabani in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
