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Poti
ფოთი
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Official seal of Poti ფოთი
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Poti ფოთი is located in Georgia (country)
Poti ფოთი
Poti
ფოთი
Location o Poti in Georgie
Coordinates: 42°09′0″N 41°40′0″E / 42.15000°N 41.66667°E / 42.15000; 41.66667
Kintra Georgie
MkhareSamegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
Established7t century BC
Area
 • Total65.8 km2 (25.4 sq mi)
Elevation
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Population
 (2014)
 • Total41,465
 • Density630.17/km2 (1,632.1/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+4 (Georgie Time)
Websitepoti.gov.ge

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.

Geography an climate

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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.

Etymology

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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 relations

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Twin touns — Sister ceeties

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  1. Lordkipanidze (2000), pp. 11–12.

References

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