Municipality of Marneuli
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Niederkartlien | ||
| Seat | Marneuli | ||
| surface | 935 km² | ||
| Residents | 104,300 (2014) | ||
| density | 112 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-KK | ||
| Website | marneuli.gov.ge (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 41 ° 24 ' N , 44 ° 54' E
The municipality of Marneuli ( Georgian მარნეულის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Marneulis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Niederkartlien region in southeast Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality is the city of Marneuli . The 935 km² municipality borders on the municipality of Gardabani in the north and east , interrupted in the northeast by the territory of the subordinate town of Rustavi , in the northwest on the municipality of Tetrizqaro and in the west on the municipality of Bolnissi , all also in the Lower Cartlia region. The state border with Azerbaijan runs along a short section in the southeast and with Armenia in the south .
The largest part of the municipality lies in the area of the Lower Cartlian Plain . The Kura flows through this roughly along the eastern border of the municipality ; The right Kura tributaries Algeti and Chrami run through the area with its right tributary Debed , which marks part of the border with Armenia. In the northeast, in the middle of the plain, the Jagludscha ridge rises up to 785 m with the plateau adjoining it to the south and thus towers over the plain by over 400 m. The low mountain range adjacent to the southwest of the municipality reaches in the extreme southwest with the Hasran-Talassi a height of 1488 m above sea level.
Population and administrative division
With 104,300 inhabitants (2014), the population has fallen by around 12% compared to the previous census (118,221 inhabitants in 2002), which is slightly less than the national average. However, this has accelerated the decline that began in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union ; previously the population had risen since at least the 1930s (48,970 inhabitants in 1939).
- Population development
Note: census data. From the 1970s to the 1990s, the city of Marneuli was independent of rajons; for this period the number of inhabitants with and without a city.
The municipality with 83.1% is the one with the highest percentage of Azerbaijanis in Georgia. Ethnic Georgians make up only 8.0%, Armenians 7.9%; there are also mainly Russians (0.4%) and Pontic Greeks (0.3%, as of 2002).
The largest villages besides the city of Marneuli (20,211 inhabitants) are the villages of Algeti , Keschalo , Qisil-Adschlo , Sabirkendi , Sadachlo and Schaumiani (2014), each with over 3,000 inhabitants . Most of the villages are in fact mono-ethnic, according to the total population mostly Azerbaijani. Larger mainly inhabited by Georgians villages are Saimerlo , Tamarissi and Tsereteli . Tamarissi was originally a Caucasus German village called Traubenberg, which after the deportation was renamed the German in 1941 in the 1944th Larger Armenian villages are Achkerpi , Damia and Zitelsopeli . The small Opreti was traditionally inhabited by Greeks ; However, most of them have now left Georgia, just like from other parts of the country. The largest of the few places with a more ethnically mixed population are, besides the city of Marneuli, Chodschomi , Schaumiani, Schulaweri and Zopi .
The municipality is divided into the independent capital Marneuli and 17 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 77 localities:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Achkerpi | 3 | 862 |
| Algeti | 5 | 11,790 |
| Chodschorni | 4th | 1,514 |
| Damia-Geurarchi | 4th | 3,618 |
| Kapanachchi | 7th | 9,021 |
| Kassumlo | 6th | 6,475 |
| Kachagani | 4th | 5,505 |
| Kutliari | 5 | 4,816 |
| Opreti | 2 | 139 |
| Qisil-Ajlo | 1 | 7,291 |
| Qulari | 7th | 4,980 |
| Sadachlo | 5 | 9,969 |
| Schaumiani | 4th | 3,723 |
| Shulaweri | 9 | 7,604 |
| Tamarissi | 3 | 1,908 |
| Zerakwi | 3 | 334 |
| Tsereteli | 5 | 4,540 |
history
The municipality is located in the central part of the historical Bortschali landscape . After the disintegration of the medieval Kingdom of Georgia in the 16th century, it belonged to the independent Kingdom of Kartlien , then to the Kartlien- Kakheti unified in 1762 and, while it was part of the Russian Empire, to the Tbilisi Governorate formed in 1849 . Its Ujesd Bortschali was predominantly inhabited by Armenians, Azerbaijanis (called Tatars at that time ) and Greeks; the administrative seat was on the territory of today's municipality of Marneuli in Schulawer, called Schaumiani since 1925 (not to be confused with today's village of Schulaweri, which arose from the beginning of the 20th century around the railway station of the same name, about seven kilometers from the village).
The Ujesd continued to exist in the early years of the Soviet Union until the Borchali Rajon ( Russian Борчалинский район , Bortschalinski rajon ) was spun off as part of the short-lived Okrug Tbilisi in 1930 and became independent in 1930. The administrative center was initially still Schaumiani; In 1947 it was moved to Bortschali, which was also renamed Sarwani (Georgian სარვანი ; from Azerbaijani Sarvan ). In 1952 the place (from 1964 city) was given the current (Georgian) name Marneuli, and the name of the Rajon was adapted accordingly. From the 1970s to 1995, the rapidly growing city of Marneuli was spun off from the Rajon as an independent administrative unit; the Rajon administration was still there. In 1995 the Rajon with the reintegrated town of Marneuli was assigned to the newly created region of Niederkartlien and in 2006 it was transformed into a municipality.
traffic
The international trunk road S6 (also part of the European route 117 ) leads through the extreme northwest from Tbilisi via Bolnissi to the Armenian border. In Marneuli, the international trunk road S7 , which runs entirely on the territory of the municipality (also part of the European route 001 ), branches off, which also reaches the Armenian border at Sadachlo. The international trunk road S4 coming from Tbilisi (also part of European route 60 ) runs not far from the eastern border of the municipality on its section between Rustavi and the Azerbaijani border.
The national road Sch33 ( zur 33 ) leads from Marneuli to the northwest to the nearby municipal border , in the direction of Tetrizqaro - Zalka . From Sadachlo the Sch37 ( შ 37 ) follows the Armenian border to the west and crosses it behind Achkerpi ; the unpaved section across the border is only for local traffic. The Sch162 ( შ 162 ) leads from the S7 at Schulaweri via Schaumiani to the southwest part of the municipality. The Sch163 ( შ 163 ) is a cross connection between the S7 and the S4, starting in Marneuli, also further south the Sch164 ( შ 164 ) from Tsereteli and the Sch161 ( შ 161 ) from Schulaweri.
In the north-south direction between Marneuli and Sadachlo runs on the territory of the municipality, the Tbilisi – Yerevan railway line opened on this section in 1899 . In Marneuli, a branch line branches off via Bolnissi to Kasreti in the neighboring municipality of Bolnissi to the west.
Web links
- Web presence of the municipality of Marneuli (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)
