Poti

Poti ფოთი
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Poti ფოთი Location o Poti in Georgie
Coordinates: 42°09′0″N 41°40′0″E
Kintra	Georgie
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	poti.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

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

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."

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

• LaGrange, Georgie, USA
• Burgas, Bulgarie
• Larnaca, Cyprus
• Aktau, Kazakhstan (2005)
• Nafplio, Greece

References

• 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 links

• poti.gov.ge (Poti city Portal)
• Poti ceety wab steid Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
• 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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