Municipality of Sestaponi
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Imereti | ||
| Seat | Sestaponi | ||
| surface | 423 km² | ||
| Residents | 57,628 (2014) | ||
| density | 136 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-IM | ||
| Website | zestaphoni.com (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 6 ' N , 43 ° 6' E
The municipality Sestaponi ( Georgian ზესტაფონის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Sestaponis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Imereti region in the central part of Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality is the eponymous city of Sestaponi . The 423 km² municipality is surrounded in all directions by municipalities that also belong to the Imereti region: Chiatura in the northeast, Charagauli in the southeast, Baghdati in the southwest and Terjola in the northwest.
The municipality is located at the eastern end of the Colchian Plain , also known there as the Imeretian Plain , as well as in the adjoining, in many places wooded, low mountain range . This reaches a height of almost 700 m above sea level in the northeast , while the ridge running along the southwest border of the municipality with the summit of Sapishlistawi reaches 1088 m . From northeast to west, the area is crossed by the left Rioni tributary Qwirila , above Sestaponi in a narrow valley that is several hundred meters deep. This also applies to the tributary Dsirula , which flows in from the left, and its left tributary Tschcherimela , which flows into the extreme southeast of the municipality. The real Qwirila tributary Cholaburi and its source rivers Budscha and Dzussa flow in the north . Cholaburi and Qwirila mark part of the border to the municipality of Terjola in the northwest.
Population and administrative division
With 57,628 inhabitants (2014), the population has fallen by almost a quarter compared to the previous census (56,341 inhabitants in 2002), well above the national average. Before that, the population had grown slowly and steadily since at least the 1930s, with the exception of a slight decrease in the 1970s.
- Population development
Note: census data
The population is almost mono-ethnic Georgian (about 99.0%); there are also a small number of predominantly Russians and Armenians (as of 2002).
The largest localities besides the city of Sestaponi (20,814 inhabitants) are the villages Dilikauri , Kweda Kwaliti , Kweda Sakara , Meore Swiri , Pirweli Swiri , Puti , Seda Sakara and Sowreti (2014), each with over 1,500 inhabitants . The former minority town (Georgian daba , დაბა ) Schorapani lost this status on January 1, 2014 and is now also a village.
The municipality is divided into the independent capital Sestaponi and 18 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 59 localities:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Boslewi | 6th | 1145 |
| Dilikauri | 2 | 1921 |
| Dsirula | 9 | 949 |
| Ilemi | 2 | 832 |
| Kldeeti | 7th | 3067 |
| Kwaliti | 2 | 3013 |
| Kweda Sakara | 3 | 3994 |
| Kweda Sasano | 4th | 3440 |
| Meore Swiri | 2 | 3723 |
| Pirweli Swiri | 1 | 1981 |
| Puti | 1 | 1564 |
| Rodinauli | 4th | 1956 |
| Sanachshire | 5 | 1470 |
| Shorapani | 1 | 1258 |
| Schroscha | 4th | 887 |
| Seda Sakara | 2 | 2266 |
| Sowreti | 1 | 1513 |
| Zchrazqaro | 3 | 1835 |
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 . While Georgia was part of the Russian Empire , it was predominantly part of the Ujesds Schorapani, in the west also of the Ujesds Kutais of the Kutais governorate , to which it belonged until the early years of the Soviet Union. From the 1870s onwards, the seat of Ujesds Schorapani was the settlement with the Russified form of the name Kwirily ( Russian Квирилы , after the river), which arose around a military post and, after the railway was built, had grown considerably around the railway station of the same name - today's Sestaponi.
In the 1920s, the administrative seat of the Ujesd was relocated to the economically more important Chiatura , but the former Kwirily, which had been called Jugeli since 1921 , was renamed Sestaponi in 1926 and elevated to the status of town (or Russified Sestafoni , Зестафони ), corresponding to the name of the original Georgian Village. In 1930 an independent Rajon Sestaponi (Sestafoni) was expelled. After the independence of Georgia in 1995 the Rajon was assigned to the newly formed region of Imereti and in 2006 it was transformed into a municipality.
traffic
The most important traffic axes in Georgia run through the municipality: through the Dsirula and Qwirila valleys the international highway S1 ( ს 1 ) from Tbilisi to the Russian or Abkhaz border (on this section also European route 60 ), and through the Chcherimela valley and then like that Trunk road along the Dsirula and Qwirila and the plain in the west the railway line Poti - Tbilisi (- Baku) .
Branching off the S1 in Sestaponi, the national road Sch22 ( შ 22 ) runs to the right (west) above the Qwirila in the direction of Tschiatura– Satschchere , further in an arc back to the S1 in the inner-Cartlian municipality of Chaschuri . In the extreme south-east of the S1, the national road Sch55 ( შ 55 ) branches off, which follows the railway line through the Tschcherimela valley to Charagauli and, as a poorly developed alternative route, also back to the S1. The Sch101 ( შ 101 ) is another connection between Sestaponi and the neighboring administrative center of Charagauli through the south of the municipality, and the Sch54 ( შ 54 ) to the neighboring Baghdati to the west .
From Sestaponi or Schorapani, the narrow-gauge railway opened between 1895 and 1904 and converted to broad-gauge and electrified in the 1950s via Chiatura to Satschchere up the Qwirila.
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Sestaponi (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)
