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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Coordinates: 42°09′0″N 41°40′0″E / 42.15000°N 41.66667°E | |
Kintra | ![]() |
Mkhare | Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti |
Established | 7t century BC |
Area | |
• Total | 65.8 km2 (25.4 sq mi) |
Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
Population (2014) | |
• Total | 41,465 |
• Density | 630.17/km2 (1,632.1/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+4 (Georgie Time) |
Website | www.poti.ge [eng] |
Geography an climateEedit
Poti is situatit 312 kilometre (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 kilometre (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 Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Poti Sea Port Authority
- Chart of Poti port[deid airtin]
- @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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