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•  Batumi

  Batumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. It has a population of 121,806 (2002 census). Batumi, with its large port and commercial center, is also the last stop of the Transcaucasian Railway and the Baku oil pipeline. It is situated some 20 km (12 mi) from the Turkish border, in a subtropical zone, rich in citrus fruit and tea. Industries included shipbuilding, food processing, and light manufacturing.

  

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•  Adjara

  Adjara, officially the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, is an autonomous republic of Georgia. Adjara is located in the southwestern corner of Georgia, bordered by Turkey to the south and the eastern end of the Black Sea. Adjara is a home to the Adjar ethnic subgroup of Georgians. Adjara is also known as Ajara, Adzhara, Ajaria, Adjaria, Adzharia, or as Achara. Formerly Adjara was known as Acara under Ottoman rule and Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic under the Soviet Union.

  

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•  Aslan Abashidze

  Aslan Abashidze (born Batumi, July 20, 1938) was the leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic in western Georgia from 1991 to May 5, 2004. He resigned under the pressure of the central Georgian government and mass opposition rallies during the 2004 Adjara crisis, and has since lived in Moscow, Russia. On January 22, 2007, the Batumi city court found him guilty of misuse of office and embezzlement of GEL 98.2 million state funds, and sentenced him to a 15-year imprisonment in absentia.

  

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•  Choloki River

  The Choloki River in Georgia forms the border between the autonomous province of Ajaria and the province of Guria. For a time in the nineteenth century it formed the border between Turkey and Imperial Russia. During the Crimean War, Russia’s 13,000 troops consisting mainly of Georgian militias under General Lieutenant Prince Ivan Malkhazovich Andronnikov (Andronikashvili) routed Sinan Pasha’s Turkish corps of 35,000 strong on the left bank of the Choloki River on June 4, 1854.

  

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•  Kobuleti

  Kobuleti is a town in Georgia's southwestern region of Ajaria. It is situated on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Kobuleti is a sea resort, visited annually by Georgians and many former Soviet Union residents. From the 17th century into the 19th, Kobuleti was a fiefdom of the Tavdgiridze family, first under the authority of the Principality of Guria, and then of the Ottoman Empire. It was known as Çürüksu during Ottoman rule.

  

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•  Levan Varshalomidze

  Levan Varshalomidze (born 17 January 1972) is a Georgian politician and the current Chairman of the Government of Adjara. He became the leader of this autonomous republic in southwestern Georgia following the ouster of ruler Aslan Abashidze in May 2004. Varshalomidze was born in Batumi. He is the son of Guram Varshalomidze, a General Director of the National Oil Company of Georgia, who had chaired the Supreme Council of Adjara in the mid-1990s.

  

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•  History of Adjara

  The article refers to the history of Georgia's autonomous province of Adjara.

  

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•  2004 Adjara crisis

  The Adjara crisis refers to a political crisis in Georgia’s Adjaran Autonomous Republic, then led by Aslan Abashidze, who refused to obey the central authorities after President Eduard Shevardnadze’s ousting during the Rose Revolution of November 2003. The crisis threatened to develop into military confrontation as both sides mobilized their forces at the internal border.

  

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•  Shuakhevi

  Shuakhevi is a small town in Georgia's autonomous region of Ajaria, 67 km east to the regional capital Batumi. Situated on the right bank of the Adjaristsqali River, it is an administrative center of Shuakhevi District, which comprises the town itself and 68 adjoining mountainous villages. The area of the district is 588 km²; population – 21,850 (est. 2002). Near the town are the ruins of a medieval fortress.

  

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•  Keda, Georgia

  Keda is a small town in Ajaria, an autonomous republic in the southwestern Georgia, 42 km southeast to the regional capital Batumi. Keda Raion also comprises 60 villages adjoining to the town. Its area is 452 km². In 2002, its population is about 20,024. In the district are several historical monuments, particularly the medieval Orthodox churches at Makhuntseti, Zesopeli and Namonastrevi, and the bridges of Tzonarisi and Dandalo.

  

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•  Emphatic consonant

  Emphatic consonant is a term widely used in Semitic linguistics to describe one of a series of obstruent consonants which originally contrasted with series of both voiced and voiceless obstruents. In specific Semitic languages the members of this series may be realized as pharyngealized, velarized, ejective, or plain voiced or voiceless consonants.

  

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•  Rainbow trout

  The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of salmonid native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America as well as much of the central, western, eastern, and especially the northern portions of the United States. The species has been introduced for food or sport to at least 45 countries, and every continent except Antarctica.

  

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•  Keith Murray (rapper)

  Keith Murray (born September 13, 1974) is a rapper and a member of the rap trio Def Squad, which includes fellow rappers Redman and Erick Sermon.

  

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•  Opus-CBCS

  The Opus Computer Based Conversation System was a Fidonet Bulletin Board System. Originally developed by Wynn Wagner III in 1985, Opus was one of the leading Bulletin Board Systems during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Opus was a community effort with Wagner working as the architect and core developer. Many Opus SysOps contributed to the source code over the years. Opus-CBCS software licensing was never sold for profit.

  

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•  Nyírmeggyes

  Nyírmeggyes is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

  

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