Zageri
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Zageri ცაგერი |
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 Georgia
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| Region : | Ratscha-Letschchumi and Lower Swanetia | ||
| Municipality : | Zageri | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 39 ′ N , 42 ° 46 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 475 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 1,320 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | Georgian Time (UTC + 4) | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
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Zageri ( Georgian ცაგერი ) is a city in the Georgian region of Ratcha-Letschchumi and Lower Vanetia .
Zageri is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name Zageri and with 1320 inhabitants (2014) one of the smallest cities in Georgia.
location
The place is located in the north-central part of Georgia about 200 km as the crow flies northwest of the capital Tbilisi and about 35 km northwest of the regional capital Ambrolauri on the right bank of the Zcheniszqali , a right tributary of the Rioni . The place is surrounded by mountains that rise to a good 1000 m above sea level in the south , and in the north-western Egirissi Mountains up to 3174 m ( Zikuri , 15 km northwest of Zageri).
history
Already in the Middle Ages Zageri was the seat of an eparchy of the Georgian Orthodox Apostle Church that still exists today . The historian and geographer Wachuschti, son of the Georgian King Vakhtang VI. , praised the old domed church of Zageri with its outstanding frescoes at the beginning of the 18th century as "excellently built"; however, it was heavily redesigned towards the end of the 19th century, with the frescoes being lost.
Politically, the place of the historical province belonged Lechkhumi (originally Takweri called), the succession of the princes in the period of the united Georgian feudal state from the 11th to 15th centuries Svaneti and Racha was assumed. After the collapse of the unified empire, Zageri and Letschchumi belonged to the kingdom of Imeretia from 1455 , before it initially became de facto independent under the local aristocratic family Chikowani and was united with this principality in 1714 through family ties to the house of Dadiani of Mingrelia .
In 1857 Zageri came to the Russian Empire with the Principality of Mingrelia , was incorporated into the Kutais Governorate and received the (Russian) town charter as the administrative seat of Ujezds Letschchumi , which also included parts of Svaneti in addition to the old province.
In the Soviet period, Zageri had the status of an urban-type settlement as the administrative center of a raion of the Georgian SSR founded in 1930 , before it received city rights again in 1968. In the years around 1960, the population of Zageri temporarily more than doubled when reservoirs with associated hydropower plants were built in the area around Zcheniszqali and the Ladschanuri river, which flows a few kilometers to the east , with the place serving as a logistical center and housing estate for the builders.
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1897 | 687 |
| 1959 | 4709 |
| 1970 | 2081 |
| 1979 | 2081 |
| 1989 | 1359 |
| 2002 | 1913 |
| 2014 | 1320 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Zageri is home to the Assumption Cathedral , the main church of the Zageri and Lentechi eparchy of the Georgian Orthodox Church, as well as the Maximus Confessor Monastery with the church of the same name, which houses the grave of the Greek monk and theologian. He died in exile on August 13, 662 in Shemarion (or Shemarum) fortress, which, according to one version, corresponds to the later fortress of Muriskikhe not far from Zageri. The city also has a local museum. In the village of Bardnala, a few kilometers away, is the house where the poet Lado Assatiani (1917–1943) was born.
Economy and Infrastructure
There are food processing plants in Zageri.
The city is located on the road that leads from Kutaisi via Zqaltubo , where the nearest train station is located, into the Zcheniszqali valley and continues to Lower Vanetia with its main town Lentechi . In Tsageri a cross-connection branches off to Orbeli in the valley of Ladschanuri from which this further down until along the Rioni extending Ossetian highway follows, and represents the shortest distance in the southern parts of the region with the capital Ambrolauri.
sons and daughters of the town
- Candidate Tscharkwiani (კანდიდ ჩარკვიანი, 1907–1994), party and economic functionary, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR (1938–1952)
Web links
- Article Zageri in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
