Baghdati

Baghdati (Georgian ბაღდათი ) is a city in west-central part of Georgia, in the region of Imereti. It is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality and has about 4800 inhabitants Baghdati ( 2009).

Location

The site is located approximately 170 km in a straight line west-northwest of the capital Tbilisi and just 25 kilometers south-southeast of the regional capital Kutaisi on the southeastern edge of a plane formed by the Rioni, the most important river in western Georgia. In Baghdati the left Rioni Creek Chaniszqali steps out of his narrow, wooded valley forth into the plain, which he in the little south of the village about 1500 m high mountains of the Adscharisch - Imeretischen (also Meskhetian ) has cut the mountain range of the Lesser Caucasus.

History

The old imeretische village Baghdati whose name is likely to have the same Persian origins as the name of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad (such as " God's gift " ), was at the time the membership of Georgia to the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union under the Russian form of the name Baghdadi ( russian known Багдади ).

In 1940 it was named after its most famous son, there renamed in 1893 in the family of a Russian forest officials born poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, in Mayakovsky (Georgian მაიაკოვსკი ). In the 1960s, the place for urban-type settlement was levied 1981, he finally received the city rights.

In 1990, the town's original name was restored.

Note: 1959-2002 census data, in 2009 calculation

Culture and sights

Baghdati has a Vladimir Mayakovsky museum and a popular theater.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), poet

Economy and infrastructure

In Baghdati there are a furniture factory as well as companies in the food industry ( canning, wine). In the wooded area forests are managed.

By Baghdati leads the regional road which, starting the valley of Chaniszqali leads from Kutaisi upward, over the 2180m high Sekara Pass (Georgian ზეკარის უღელტეხილი, Sekaris ugheltechili ) crosses the main ridge of the Meskhetian Mountains and on about the spa Abastumani after Akhaltsikhe, capital of the southern Neighbourhood Samtskhe Javakheti - runs. The nearest train station is located in Kutaisi.