Marneuli
Marneuli
მარნეული | |
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City | |
 Marneuli Tea House | |
 Flag  Seal | |
  Marneuli  Marneuli | |
| Coordinates: 41°29′49″N 44°48′39″E / 41.49694°N 44.81083°E | |
| Country |  Georgia (country) |
| Mkhare | Kvemo Kartli |
| Municipality | Marneuli |
| Elevation | 420 m (1,380 ft) |
| Population (January 1, 2023[1]) | |
| • Total | 24,928 |
| Climate | Cfa |
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Marneuli (Georgian: მარნეული [maɾneuli], Azerbaijani: Sarvan) is a city in the Kvemo Kartli region of southern Georgia and administrative center of Marneuli Municipality that borders neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Toponymy
According to Georgian sources, the name Marneuli is of Georgian origin and some have attested the name to "marani" (Georgian: მარანი), the Georgian word "winery".[2]
The name used by the Azerbaijanis to refer to the city, Sarvan,[3] The word was borrowed[4] from Persian sârebân (Persian: ساربان), meaning "the keeper of camels".[5]
Population
According to the 2014 Georgian census the population of the city was 20,211. The city is predominantly populated by Georgian Azerbaijanis (83,1%).[6] As of January 1, 2023, the population was 24,928.[2]
History
Marneuli is the center of the
On July 1, 1625, north of Marneuli near the
On December 19, 1918, a battle of the
In 1921, Marneuli again became the center of military operations - units of the Soviet 11th Army marched through it in
On August 8, 2008, during the Russo-Georgian War, Russian planes bombed the city's airfield, as a result of which 3 people died and the airfield's runway was destroyed.
Culture
There is one university branch (Tbilisi State University) and one university opened in 2008 (Heydar Aliyev Georgia-Azerbaijan Humanitarian University) in Marneuli.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Population - National Statistics Office of Georgia". www.geostat.ge.
- ^ a b "მარანი". The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Bibliowiki. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ Hajili, Asif (17 October 2020). "Yaxın və uzaq Borçalı". 525-ci qəzet (in Azerbaijani). pp. 20–21.
- ^ Ahmadov, Bashir (2015). "Sarvan". Etimologiya lüğəti [Dictionary of Etymology]. Baku: Altun Kitab.
- ^ Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931). "ساربان". In Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute (ed.). Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian). Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
- ^ "Статистический отчёт о переписе населении" (PDF). statistics.ge (in Georgian). 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
- ^ Heydar Aliyev University opens in Marneuli, Nov 2008 Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
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