Municipality of Satschchere
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Imereti | ||
| Seat | Punch scissors | ||
| surface | 973 km² | ||
| Residents | 37,775 (2014) | ||
| density | 39 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-IM | ||
| Website | www.sachkhere.gov.ge (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 18 ' N , 43 ° 30' E
The municipality Satschere ( Georgian საჩხერის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Satschcheris munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the east of the Imereti region in the central part of Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality of Satschchere is the eponymous town of Satschchere . The 973 km² municipality in northeast Imeretia is bounded by the municipality of Charagauli in the southwest and by the municipality of Chiatura in the west, both also in Imereti; in the north-west it borders on the municipality of Ambrolauri and in the north on the municipality of Oni of the Ratscha-Letschchumi region and Lower Svaneti , in the south-east on the municipality of Chaschuri in the Inner Kartlien region .
In the east to northeast, the municipality borders de jure on the municipalities of Kareli and Dschawa , which also belong to the Inner Kartlien , but de facto on the Republic of South Ossetia , which is not under Georgian control, is internationally recognized by only a few states and is located in the Snaur Rajons (northern part of the Municipality of Kareli) and Dsau . The extreme northeast of the municipality of Satschere around the village of Sinaguri , to which its Dzau district is now assigned, has also been under South Ossetian control since the Caucasus War in 2008 . In 2002, 256 people lived in this area, mostly Ossetians .
The municipality occupies the valleys of the upper reaches of the Qwirila and its left tributary Dsirula and its tributaries. In the north, the area is separated from the historical region of Ratscha , today's municipalities Ambrolauri and Oni, by the Ratscha Mountains . Its highest peak, Lebeurismta, at 2862 m, lies in the area controlled by South Ossetia. The highest peak in the far northeast of the Georgian-controlled part of the municipality is the Kudewi ( 2294 m ), further west the border runs south of the ridge, so that the over 2000 m high peaks there are already in the municipality of Oni. The demarcation to Inner Kartlien in the east forms the Lichi Mountains with the 1926 m high Lochoni. The low mountain range between Qwirila and Dsirula reaches heights of around 1500 m in the northwest , and 800 to 1000 m in the southwest .
Population and administrative division
With 37,775 inhabitants (2014), the population has fallen by almost a fifth compared to the previous census (46,590 inhabitants in 2002), just above the national average. Before that, the population had been relatively stable since the 1970s.
- Population development
Note: census data
The population is almost mono-ethnic Georgian (about 99.5%); there are also a small number of Ossetians and Russians (as of 2002).
The largest villages besides the town of Satschchere (6140 inhabitants) are the villages Korbouli , Sairche , Sawane and Tschicha (2014) with over 1500 inhabitants each .
The municipality is divided into the independent main town of Satschere and 12 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 45 localities:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Argweti | 8th | 5098 |
| Jalaurta | 2 | 1882 |
| Gorissa | 2 | 1718 |
| Korbouli | 3 | 4627 |
| Koreti | 1 | 1348 |
| Merdschewi | 2 | 2072 |
| Sairche | 3 | 3798 |
| Sareki | 3 | 2066 |
| Chala | 9 | 3453 |
| Chalovani | 5 | 1091 |
| Tschiche | 5 | 4085 |
| Tskhomareti | 2 | 397 |
history
From the collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century until the 19th century, the area belonged virtually continuously to the Kingdom of Imereti , but was in fact ruled by a few relatively self-sufficient feudal families. While Georgia was part of the Russian Empire , it was part of the Ujesds Schorapani of the Kutais Governorate . In the early years of the Soviet Union it belonged to the Okrug Kutaisi, from 1930 to the newly formed Rajon Chiatura. In 1939 the independent Rajon Satschchere was spun off. After the independence of Georgia in 1995, the Rajon was assigned to the newly formed region of Imereti and in 2006 it was converted into a municipality.
traffic
The national road Sch22 ( შ 22 ) runs through the municipality and branches off from the international trunk road S1 ( ს 1 ) from Tbilisi to the Russian or Abkhazian border (on this section also European route 60 ) in the southeastern neighboring municipality of Chaschuri , over the approximately 950 m high Jvari - The pass overcomes the Lichi Mountains, crosses the Dsirula Valley and leads into the Qwirila Valley with the town of Sachchere; from there it continues down the Qwirila towards Chiatura - Sestaponi , where again the S1 is reached. From Korbouli on the Sch22 between Dsirula and Satschchere, the Sch115 ( შ 115 ) branches off as a shorter direct connection from the east to Chiatura.
Satschchere is the end point of the Sestaponi – Satschchere railway line , which opened as a narrow-gauge railway until 1904 and was converted to broad gauge and electrified in the 1950s .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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)
- ↑ 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)
