Ambrolauri municipality
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Ratscha-Letschchumi and Lower Swanetia | ||
| Seat | Ambrolauri | ||
| surface | 1142 km² | ||
| Residents | 9139 (2014) | ||
| density | 8 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-RL | ||
| Website | ambrolauri.gov.ge (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 36 ' N , 43 ° 6' E
The municipality Ambrolauri ( Georgian ამბროლაურის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Ambrolauris munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Ratscha-Letschchumi region and Lower Vanetia in northern Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality is the small town of Ambrolauri , which, as the regional capital, has not been part of the municipality since 2014 and is now directly subordinate to the region. The 1142 km² municipality borders on the Zageri municipality in the west, the Lentechi municipality in the north and the Oni municipality in the east , all also in the Ratscha-Letschchumi region and Lower Svaneti. From the southwest to the southeast, the municipality is bounded by the municipalities of Zqaltubo , Tqibuli , Chiatura and Satschchere , which belong to the Imereti region .
The municipality extends in the western part of the historical Ratscha region in the valley of the Rioni and its tributaries, from above the confluence of the Luchuniszqali to above the confluence of the Ladschanuri . From the southern part of the historical province of Svaneti , called Lower Svanetia (Georgian Kwemo Svaneti ), today the municipality of Lentechi, the municipality is separated in the north by the Letschchumi Mountains , which also have its highest peak there with the 3584 m high Samerzchle. The ridge of the Ratscha Mountains stretches along the southern border of the municipality , which, together with the Sazalike, reaches a height of 1997 m on this section . In the southern part of the municipality below the Ratscha ridge is an extensive karst plateau with the Schaora reservoir (Georgian შაორის წყალსაცავი , Schaoris zqalsazawi ) at 1130 m , which was flooded in the 1950s .
Population and administrative division
With 9,139 inhabitants (2014), the population of the municipality has fallen by around a third compared to the previous census (16,079 inhabitants in 2002) taking into account the spin-off of the city of Ambrolauri, which corresponds to twice the national average and has been since at least the 1930s (38,191 inhabitants 1939) continues the trend of continuous population decline.
- Population development
Note: census data. 2014 City of Ambrolauri spun off: for comparison, the population of the municipality with the city is also shown.
The largest towns next to the city of Ambrolauri (2047 inhabitants) are the villages of Bugeuli , Chwantschkara ( eponymous for the red wine of the same name ), Kwazchuti , Nikorzminda , Sadmeli and Zessi (2014), each with over 300 inhabitants .
The municipality is divided into 18 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი ) with a total of 70 towns, including one with no permanent residents who earlier in connection with the establishment of Schaori Reservoir and - hydro power plant built urban-type settlement Charistwala (827 inhabitants in 1959) in of today's Nikorzminda parish:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Bugeuli | 6th | 719 |
| Chidikri | 2 | 512 |
| Chotewi | 3 | 135 |
| Khvanchkara | 5 | 1293 |
| Ghadishi | 5 | 324 |
| Iza | 6th | 309 |
| Licheti | 3 | 712 |
| Namanewi | 4th | 233 |
| Nikorzminda | 3 1 | 592 |
| Sadmeli | 5 | 1420 |
| Schwawa | 3 | 147 |
| Snakwa | 3 | 333 |
| Tscheliaghele | 5 | 496 |
| Chqwischi | 3 | 502 |
| Tschrebalo | 4th | 604 |
| Welewi | 4th | 184 |
| Zachi | 4th | 130 |
| Zessi | 2 | 494 |
history
The area of the municipality corresponds to the western part of the historical province of Ratcha, which was subordinate to local princes from the 11th to 15th centuries during the time of the unified Georgian feudal state, who temporarily ruled over the northwestern neighboring Svaneti. After the disintegration of the united kingdom Racha was Lehns principality of the Kingdom of Imereti . In 1810 the area with Imeretia came to the Russian Empire and subsequently formed the Ujesd Ratscha in the Kutais governorate .
The Ujesd existed until the early years of the Soviet Union . From 1928 onwards there were several short-lived administrative changes, until finally in October 1930 the independent Rajon Ambrolauri was spun off. On April 29, 1991, the area was severely affected by the worst earthquake ever recorded in this part of the Caucasus (magnitude 7.0 on the Richter scale ; MSK IX). In 1995 the Ambrolauri Rajon was assigned to the newly formed region of Ratscha-Letschchumi and Lower Svaneti and in 2006 it was transformed into a municipality.
traffic
The main traffic artery of the municipality is the national road Sch16, which follows the Rioni from Kutaisi to Oni and continues up to the Mamisson Pass on the state border with Russia ( შ 16 , interrupted before the border due to the South Ossetia conflict). In Ambrolauri, the Sch17 ( შ 17 ) branches off in a southerly direction, which crosses the karst plateau and the 1217 m high Naqerali pass of the Ratscha Mountains and continues via Tqibuli to Kutaisi. The route from the Mamisson Pass via Oni, Ambrolauri and Tqibuli to Kutaisi corresponds to the historic Ossetian military road .
The nearest railway station is also in Tqibuli, the end point of a branch line from Rioni via Kutaisi since 1887 .
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Ambrolauri (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)
