Poti
Poti (Georgie: ფოთი; Mingrelian: ფუთი; Laz: ფაში/Fashi; umwhile kent tae the Turks as Faş) is a port ceety in Georgie, locatit on the eastren Black Sea coast in the region o Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the wast o the kintra. Built near the steid o the auncient Greek colony o Phasis, the ceety haes acome a major port ceety an industrial center syne the early 20t century. It is an aw hame tae a main naval base an the headquarters o the Georgie navy.
Poti ფოთი | |||
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  Poti ფოთი Location o Poti in Georgie | |||
| Coordinates: 42°09′0″N 41°40′0″E / 42.15000°N 41.66667°E | |||
| Kintra |  Georgie | ||
| Mkhare | Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti | ||
| Established | 7t century BC | ||
| Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) | ||
| Population (2002) | |||
| • Tot | 47,149 | ||
| Time zone | UTC+4 (Georgie Time) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 | ||
| Wabsteid | www.poti.ge [eng] | ||
Geography an climateEedit
Poti is situatit 312 kilometres (194 mi) wast o Georgie’s caipital, Tbilisi, in a mairshy delta creatit bi the major river o wastren Georgie, the Rioni, at its entrance intae the Black Sea. The ceety lees at an altitude o twa meters abuin sea level. A portion o Poti's environs recovered frae the marshes nou accommodate citrus plantation. The ceety is surroondit bi the Kolkheti Naitional Pairk. It is flanked bi the smaw river Kaparchina tae the sooth-east an Lake Paliastomi tae the sooth-wast. Some 5 kilometres (3 mi) tae the sooth is the veelage Maltaqva, a local beach resort. The ceety's climate is humid subtropical wi mild an warm winters an het simmers. The average annual temperatur is 14.1 °C; 2 °C in Januar, an 22.9 °C in Julie.
EtymologyEedit
The name Poti is apparently linked tae Phasis, but the etymology is a matter o a scholarly dispute. "Phasis" (Greek: Φάσις) is first recordit in Hesiod's Theogony (c. 700 BC) as a name o the river, no a toun. Syne Erich Diehl, 1938, first suggestit a non-Hellenic oreegin o the name an assertit that Phasis micht hae been a derivative o a local hydronym, several explanations hae been proposed, linkin the name tae the Georgie-Zan *Poti, Svan *Pasid, an even tae a Semitic wird, meanin "a gowd river."[1]
Internaitional relationsEedit
Twin touns — Sister ceetiesEedit
LaGrange, Georgie, USA
Burgas, Bulgarie
Larnaca, Cyprus
Aktau, Kazakhstan (2005)
Nafplio, Greece
NotesEedit
- ↑ Lordkipanidze (2000), pp. 11–12.
ReferencesEedit
- Otar Lordkipanidze (2000), Phasis: The River and City in Colchis. Franz Steiner Verlag, ISBN 3515070702.
- Stephen F. Jones (2005), Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917. Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674019024.
- Richard J. A. Talbert et al. (ed., 2000), Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691049459.
External linksEedit
| Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Poti, Georgia. |
- www.poti.ge (Poti city Portal)
- Poti ceety wab steid
- Poti Sea Port Authority
- Chart of Poti port
- @bbc - The Georgie foreign ministry said the Black Sea port o Poti, which is the steid o a major ile shipment facility, haed been "devastatit" bi a Roushie aerial bombardment.
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