Igoeti or Igoet'i (In Georgian: იგოეთი) is a village in

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in the region of

Shida Kartli Shida Kartli ( ka, შიდა ქართლი, , ; "Inner Kartli") is a landlocked administrative region (''Mkhare'') in eastern Georgia. It comprises a central part of the historical-geographic province of Shida Kartli. With an area of , S ...

. It had a population of 559 people in 2014 and has one river running through it.

History

Igoeti was founded in the twelfth (XII) century. Igoeti is near the

Mtkvari River The Kura, also known in Georgian as Mtkvari ( ), is an east-flowing transboundary river south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains which drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus east into the Caspian Sea. It also drains the north side of ...

(sometimes called the ''Kura'') which has sustained the people near Igoeti and beyond for over 7,000 years. Running through Igoeti also is the Lekhura river. Several species in the ''Paeonia'' genus have been recorded in Igoeti. Then, during the

Russo-Georgian war The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia,Occasionally, the war is also referred to by other names, such as the Five-Day War and August War. was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the ...

, Russian troops stopped in Igoeti on 15 August, the closest they had gotten to

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ( ka, ტფილისი, tr ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia ( ...

, before a ceasefire agreement was signed.

Demographics

Igoeti's population as of 2014 was 559. From 2002 to 2014 there was a -1.6%

population decline Population decline, also known as depopulation, is a reduction in a human population size. Throughout history, Earth's total world population, human population has estimates of historical world population, continued to grow but projections sugg ...

. 51.2% of Igoeti's population is female and 48.8% of Igoeti's population is male.

Ethnic groups

97.8% of Igoeti, or 542 people, are

Georgians Georgians, or Kartvelians (; ka, ქართველები, tr, ), are a nation and Peoples of the Caucasus, Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia (country), Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Ge ...

. 3 people, or 0.5% of the population in Igoeti are

Armenians Armenians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.Robert Hewsen, Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiq ...

. The remaining 9 people or 1.6% of Igoeti's population have another

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Language

Georgian is spoken in Igoeti. Georgian is the official language in

, where Igoeti is located. The Georgian Lari is used in Igoeti.

Elevation

Igoeti's

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is .

Important sites

The school in Igoeti is the Igoeti Public School.

Winemaking Winemaking, wine-making, or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its Ethanol fermentation, fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine-making stretches over ...

is also very popular in Igoeti. There also is a grocery store named მარკეტი (translates in English to ''Market''). Also, there is a spice shop named Spice Igoeti and a police station. It is called the "Igoeti Police Station" (იგოეთის პოლიციის დანაყოფი). Local tradition says that you must throw coins out to the church in Igoeti while passing it in the car to travel the route safely.

Location

Igoeti is located in Shida Kartli, which is situated in Eastern Georgia and is also in the

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region. It is located in

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. Igoeti is settled on the Eurasian plate. It is near the E60 in Georgia and

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and running through Igoeti is the Igoeti-Kaspi-

Akhalkalaki Akhalkalaki ( ka, ახალქალაქი, tr ; ) is a town in Georgia (country), Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe–Javakheti and the administrative centre of the Akhalkalaki Municipality. Akhalkalaki lies on the edge of the Javakheti ...

Road. Igoeti is near the city of

Kaspi Kaspi ( ka, კასპი) is a town in central Georgia (country), Georgia on the Mtkvari River. It is a center of Kaspi district, Georgia, Kaspi district, one of the four districts in Shida Kartli region. Founded in the early Middle Ages, the ...

(კასპი) and is around away. It is around away from Georgia's capital and largest city,

(თბილისი). Igoeti is nearest to the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

. Igoeti's

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is 2609 and its

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is +995. It is on Georgia Standard Time.

Nearby airports

References

{{Commonscat Populated places in Kaspi Municipality