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Makhinjauri
მახინჯაურიMakhinjauri railway station (2006)
Location of Makhinjauri in Georgia
Makhinjauri
მახინჯაურიCoordinates: 41°40′31″N 41°41′41″E / 41.67528°N 41.69472°E Country 
GeorgiaAutonomous Republic Adjara Population (2002) – Total 3,401 Time zone Georgian Time (UTC+4) Makhinjauri (Georgian: მახინჯაური) is an urban-type settlement in Adjara, Georgia, with the population of 3,400 as of 2002.[1] It is located on the Black Sea coast in the Khelvachauri district, 5 km north of Batumi, the capital of Adjara, and functions as a seaside resort. The Makhinjauri railway station is the one serving Batumi.
Geography
Located within the range of 15 m to 1,300 m above sea level, Makhinjauri possesses humid subtropical climate, with warmer winters and cooler summers compared to Batumi. Makhinjauri functions as a seaside climatic spa and is part of the group of resorts on Georgia's southwestern Black Sea coast located around Batumi.[2]
History
The toponym "Makhinjauri" (also transliterated as Makhindjauri and Makhindzhauri) is derived from the Georgian word makhinji, meaning "ugly" or "mutilated". A legend holds that the area was a scene of a crackdown on Christians by the Ottoman soldiers in which several people were mutilated.[3]
Owing to its subtropical climate and sulphur springs, the then-village Makhinjauri was developed into a resort under the Imperial Russian rule around 1904. One of the mansions built at that time and then owned by the Siberian gold magnate Alexander Sibiryakov is now in use as the rest-house Narinji.[2] In 1906, during the revolutionary upheaval in the Caucasus, Makhinjauri was the scene of a resounding murder of the British-American diplomat William Horwood Stuart.[4]
Under the Soviet rule, Makhinjauri was granted the status of an urban-type settlement (Georgian: daba) in 1959. It was popularized in the Georgian SSR as a health resort with the options of climatotherapy and sulphuric springs.[5] As of the 2002 census, Makhinjauri had the population of 3,400. Starting from 2006, Makhinjauri saw its infrastructure improved and modernized. Some of the important projects were a new railway station terminal, serving to the regional capital of Batumi,[6][7] and a new Chakvi-Makhinjauri motor road tunnel, which is part of the Batumi-Kobuleti tunnel complex.[8]
References
- ^ (Georgian) Results of all-Georgia census of 2002: Table 15. State Department for Statistics of Georgia. Accessed on March 29, 2011
- ^ a b Makhindjauri. Department of Tourism and Resorts, Autonomous Republic of Adjara. Accessed on March 29, 2011
- ^ (Russian) Margiyev, Zaur (2008), Батум во времена Османской империи ("Batum in the times of the Ottoman Empire"), p. 87. Minuvshyeye, ISBN 5902073642
- ^ Saul, Norman E. (1996),Concord and Conflict: the United States and Russia, 1867-1914, p. 520. University Press of Kansas, ISBN 0700607544
- ^ "Makhnidzhauri", in: Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1982, vol. 15, p. 343. Macmillan Publishers
- ^ Mikheil Saakashvili in Adjara, August 2006. Government of Autonomous Republic of Adjara. Accessed March 29, 2011
- ^ Railway Modernization Project. Georgian Railway. Accessed on March 29, 2011
- ^ Tunnel is Opened, 2006. Government of Autonomous Republic of Adjara. Accessed March 29, 2011
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