Senaki Municipality

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Senaki Municipality
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Basic data
Country Georgia
region Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti
Seat Senaki
surface 521 km²
Residents 39,652 (2014)
density 76 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 GE-SZ
Website www.senaki-sakrebulo.ge (Georgian)

Coordinates: 42 ° 18 '  N , 42 ° 6'  E

The municipality of Senaki ( Georgian სენაკის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Senakis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti region in western Georgia .

geography

The administrative center of the municipality is the eponymous city of Senaki . In the northwest, the 520.7 km² municipality of Senaki is bounded by the municipality of Chobi , in the north by the municipality of Chchorozqu , in the northeast by the municipality of Martwili and in the southeast by the municipality of Abascha , all also in the Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti region. In the south it borders on the municipality of Lanchchuti in the Guria region .

The southern part of the municipality is located in the area of ​​the Colchian Plain , traversed by the Rioni , which is less than 10  m above sea level and gradually rises to the northeast and turns into hill country. The right Rioni tributaries Techuri with its left tributary Abascha (marks part of the southeast border), Ziwi and in the area of ​​the northwestern border Chobiszqali with its left tributary Sana run through the area . Between Techuri and Ziwi, a mountain range extends south, which has its highest point immediately north of Senaki at 467  m and then drops steeply to the lowlands.

In the south of the municipality, to the left of the Rioni, extends the northeastern part of the Kolchis National Park .

Population and administrative division

With 39,652 inhabitants (2014), the number of inhabitants has fallen by around a quarter compared to the previous census (52,112 inhabitants in 2002), well above the national average. Before that, the population had mostly increased slightly or remained more or less constant since at least the 1930s.

Population development

Note: census data

The population is almost mono-ethnic Georgian or Mingrelian (98.9%); there is also a small number of predominantly Russians and Armenians (as of 2002).

The largest localities besides the city of Senaki (21,596 inhabitants) are the villages Akhalsopeli , Dsweli Senaki ("Old Senaki"), Gedscheti , Nossiri and Pozcho (2014), each with over 750 inhabitants .

The municipality is divided into the independent capital Senaki and 14 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 63 villages, two of which have no permanent residents:

local community Number of
towns
Population
(2014)
Akhalsopeli 2 1389
Chorschi 6th 1097
Dsweli Senaki 7 1 3001
Eki 5 1 639
Gedscheti 1 878
Ledsadsame 6th 998
Mendji 6th 1135
Nokalakewi 5 1168
Nossiri 5 2188
Pozcho 4th 1470
Sana 5 1086
Semo Chaladidi 3 394
Teklati 5 1958
Uschapati 3 655
1 of which a place without permanent residents

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 and until the early years of the Soviet Union , it was mostly part of the Ujesds Senaki, in a small area in the northwest part of the Ujesds Zugdidi of the Kutais governorate .

In 1930 a Senaki Rajon was expelled, the administrative seat of which was initially in the original village of Senaki, a few kilometers northeast of the present-day city and is known today as Dsweli Senaki ("Old Senaki"). With the renaming of the settlement that grew around the station of the same name in Micha Zchakaia in 1935 (from 1976 only Zchakaia ), after the revolutionary and politician Micha Zchakaia (1865–1950), the administration was moved to there and the Rajon renamed accordingly ( Russian Цхакаевский район , Zchakajewski rajon; Georgian ცხაკაიას რაიონი , Zchakaias raioni ). In 1989 the previous names were restored. 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 administrative seat of the municipality is an important transport hub. The international trunk road S1 ( ს 1 ) runs through the city from Tbilisi to the Russian or Abkhaz border; to the west the S2 ( ს 2 ) branches off towards Poti . These routes are part of European routes 60 and 97 . The Poti - Tiflis (- Baku) railway line, opened on this section in 1872, also runs through Senaki , from which the Senaki – Adler railway line, which opened in 1930, branches off, formerly the shortest railway connection to Russia. Years and ends today with the branch line to Zugdidi, which branches off just before the border.

From Senaki through the neighboring municipality of Martwili to Choni , the national road Sch5 ( 5 ) leads to the neighboring municipality of Tschchorozqu to the north and then in an arc via Zalendschicha back to the S1 in Zugdidi, the Sch6 ( შ 6 ). Branching off from the Sch5, the Techuri continues up the Sch86 ( შ 86 ). There are no bridges over the Rioni in the Senaki municipality.

Web links

Commons : Senaki Municipality  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geostat.ge
  2. 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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geostat.ge