Abasha Municipality
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti | ||
| Seat | Abasha | ||
| surface | 323 km² | ||
| Residents | 22,341 (2014) | ||
| density | 69 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-SZ | ||
| Website | www.abasha.ge (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 12 ' N , 42 ° 12' E
The municipality Abascha ( Georgian აბაშის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Abaschis munizipaliteti ) is a management unit (approximately corresponding to an administrative district ) in the region Mingrelien and Upper Svaneti in the West Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the Abascha municipality is the eponymous town of Abascha .
In the west to northwest, the 322.5 km² municipality of Abasha is bounded by the municipality of Senaki and in the north by the municipality of Martwili , both also in the Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti region. In the northeast, the municipality borders on the municipality of Choni , in the east to southeast on the municipality of Samtredia , both in the Imereti region , and in the southwest on the municipality of Lanchchuti in the Guria region .
The municipality lies entirely in the area of the Colchian Plain , which rises gradually from around 10 m above sea level in the southwest to around 80 m in the northeast. The Rioni flows partly along the border to the municipalities of Samtredia and Lantschchuti and through the southwestern part of the municipality . Its right tributary Zcheniszqali marks the eastern border with Imereti with the municipalities of Choni and Samtredia. The right-hand Rioni tributary Noghela flows through the central part of the area ; along the border with Senaki municipality in the northwest and then through the western part of the municipality the Abascha river of the same name , which in the extreme southwest again reaches the right Rioni tributary Techuri at the border with Senaki municipality .
Population and administrative division
With 22,341 inhabitants (2014), the population has fallen by over a fifth compared to the previous census (28,707 inhabitants in 2002), slightly above the national average. Before that, the population had been relatively stable since the 1950s.
- Population development
Note: census data
The population is almost mono-ethnic Georgian or Mingrelian (99.19%); there is also a small number of predominantly Russians and Abkhazians (as of 2002).
The largest localities besides the city of Abascha (4941 inhabitants) are the villages Dsweli Abascha ("Old Abascha "), Maidani , Marani , Sepieti and Sudschuna (2014), each with over 700 inhabitants .
The municipality is divided into the independent main town Abascha and 15 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 35 localities:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Dsweli Abasha | 1 | 859 |
| Gesati | 2 | 655 |
| Ketilari | 3 | 957 |
| Kolobani | 3 | 1097 |
| Marani | 2 | 1784 |
| Naessakao | 2 | 954 |
| Norio | 6th | 2309 |
| Ontopo | 1 | 621 |
| Pirweli Maissi | 4th | 1468 |
| Samikao | 2 | 1256 |
| Sanati | 2 | 1198 |
| Sepieti | 1 | 877 |
| Sudshuna | 3 | 1868 |
| Tqwiri | 2 | 922 |
| Zqemi | 1 | 575 |
history
After the fall of the Kingdom of Georgia from the 16th century until the 19th century, the area belonged to the Principality of Mingrelia . While Georgia was part of the Russian Empire , from 1867 it was mainly part of the Ujesds Senaki , a small area in the northeast part of the Ujesds Kutais , both in the Kutais governorate .
This structure continued into the early years of the Soviet Union . In 1930 the area became part of the newly designated Senaki Rajon ; In 1935, the independent Rajon Abascha was spun off. Its eponymous seat Abascha, which had grown around the train station located about four kilometers south of the original village, was subsequently given the status of an urban-type settlement . From 1962 to the end of 1964, the Rajon was dissolved and its territory was annexed to the neighboring Gegetschkori Rajon (today the municipality of Martvili). As part of the restoration of the Rajons, Abasha received city rights. After the independence of Georgia in 1995 the Rajon was assigned to the newly created region of Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti and in 2006 it was transformed into a municipality.
traffic
The most important traffic axes in Georgia run through the municipality or its capital: the international trunk road S1 ( ) 1 ) from Tbilisi to the Russian or Abkhaz border (on this section also European route 60 ) and the Poti - Tbilisi (- Baku) railway . The S12 ( ს 12 ), which branches off from the S1 at Samtredia , will, like the S1 further east, be expanded into a motorway ; their new route, which is under construction on this section (as of 2017), runs through the extreme south-east of the Abascha municipality. From Abascha to the southwest of the area and over the Rioni, on to the S12 near Japana in the municipality of Lantschchuti, the national road Sch3 ( შ 3 ) runs, from Abascha to the northeast to the neighboring municipality of Martwili, the Sch4 ( შ 4 ).
Web links
- Website of the Abasha Municipality (Georgian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 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. (English)
- ↑ Population Census 2002 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. (English)
