Poti

Poti (; 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  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  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" () 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."Lordkipanidze (2000), pp. 11–12.

Internaitional relations
Twin touns — Sister ceeties

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

 Notes 

 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 
 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.



Category:Ceeties an touns in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
Category:Port ceeties in Europe
Category:Roushie an Soviet Navy bases
Category:Greek colonies in Georgie (kintra)