Tqibuli Municipality
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Imereti | ||
| Seat | Tqibuli | ||
| surface | 479 km² | ||
| Residents | 20,839 (2014) | ||
| density | 44 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-IM | ||
| Website | www.tkibuli.ge (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 21 ' N , 42 ° 54' E
The municipality Tqibuli ( Georgian ტყიბულის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Tqibulis 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 town of Tqibuli . The 478.8 km² municipality is bounded in the east by the municipality of Chiatura , in the south by the municipality of Terjola , in the southwest on a short section of the territory of the regionally subordinate city of Kutaisi and in the west to northwest by the municipality of Zqaltubo , all also in Imereti. In the northeast it borders on the Ambrolauri municipality of the Ratscha-Letschchumi region and Lower Vanetia .
The municipality occupies the southern flank of the Ratscha Mountains , which is crossed by rivers in the catchment area of the left Rioni tributary Qwirila : from the Zqalzitela in the west via the Tqibuli, which flows through the administrative center of the same name, to the Dsussa in the east. This mountain range extends from a good 200 m above sea level in the Zqalzitela valley to 1263 m in the east between Tqibuli and Dsussa; a large part of the localities lies at heights of 400 to 800 m . The main ridge of the Ratscha Mountains, which marks the northern limit of the municipality, reaches a maximum height of 1847 m in this area north of the city of Tqibuli .
The river Tqibuli has been dammed below the city of Tqibuli not far from the southern municipal border to the Tqibuli reservoir since the 1950s . The river naturally seeped into the karst landscape there , only to reappear about three kilometers south, already on the territory of the municipality of Terdschola, from a karst spring called Dsevri .
Population and administrative division
With 20,839 inhabitants (2014), the population has fallen by more than a third compared to the previous census (31,132 inhabitants in 2002), roughly double the national average. The population decline that had been ongoing since the 1950s (maximum number of inhabitants in 1959: 44,411) continued at an accelerated rate.
- Population development
Note: census data
The population is almost mono-ethnic Georgian (about 98.5%); there is also a small number of predominantly Russians (0.9%, as of 2002).
The largest localities besides the city of Tqibuli (9770 inhabitants) are the villages Kursebi , Muchura , Orpiri , Sazire and Zuzchwati (2014) with over 500 inhabitants each .
The municipality is divided into the independent capital Tqibuli and 9 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 46 villages:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Chressili | 8th | 771 |
| Javarissa | 5 | 504 |
| Gurna | 8th | 761 |
| Courses | 3 | 2198 |
| Muchura | 1 | 1412 |
| Orpiri | 10 | 2010 |
| Sazire | 7th | 1947 |
| Sochcheti | 3 | 795 |
| Zuchwati | 1 | 671 |
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 part of the Kutais Governorate and was mostly in its Ujesd Kutais, only the extreme east around Muchura in the Ujesd Shorapani . This administrative structure existed until the early years of the Soviet Union, when the independent Rajon Tqibuli was expelled in 1930 . 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
Coming from the southwest of Kutaisi via Tqibuli to the 1217 m high Naqerali Pass of the Ratscha Mountains, the national road Sch17 ( შ 17 ) crosses the municipality, further towards the neighboring municipality of Ambrolauri in the Rioni valley to the north . The Sch19 ( შ 19 ) leads from Tqibuli to Terdschola, a neighboring town to the south, and on to the international S1 ( ს 1 ) road . From the Sch17 branching off through the upper Zqalzitela valley and further through the north of the municipality back to the Sch17 in Tqibuli, the national road Sch109 ( შ 109 ) runs.
Tqibuli has been the end point of the 52 km long Rioni – Tqibuli railway since 1887 , which branches off the Poti – Tiflis (–Baku) line south of Kutaisi , built to develop the coal deposits around Tqibuli and was electrified in the 1940s .
Web links
- Website of the Municipality of Tqibuli (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)
