{{Infobox settlement |name=Tskneti |native_name=წყნეთი |native_name_lang=ka | settlement_type = Urban-type settlement (Daba) of Vake District |type= |image_skyline= |image_alt= |image_caption= |image_map={{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=325|frame-height=325|zoom=11|frame-lat=41.706|frame-long=44.766|type=shape|id=Q3915294|title=Tskneti}} |pushpin_map = | map_caption = |coordinates = | image_flag = |flag_link= |image_shield= |shield_link= |subdivision_type=Country |subdivision_name=Georgia |subdivision_type1=City |subdivision_name1=Tbilisi | subdivision_type2 =District (Raioni) | subdivision_name2 = Vake District<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://matsne.gov.ge/ka/document/view/2602734?publication=0|title=Ქ. თბილისის მუნიციპალიტეტში დადგენილ ადმინისტრაციულ საზღვრებში არსებული ადმინისტრაციული ერთეულების – რაიონების ტერიტორიულ ერთეულებად – უბნებად დაყოფის შესახებ}}</ref> | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | named_for = | seat_type = | seat = | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = | total_type = | unit_pref = | area_magnitude = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_total_dunam = | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_water_percent = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 950 | population_footnotes =<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geostat.ge/index.php?action=page&p_id=2152&lang=geo |title= მოსახლეობის საყოველთაო აღწერა 2014 |language=ka |trans-title=Population Census 2014 |publisher=National Statistics Office of Georgia |date=2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919174004/http://www.geostat.ge/index.php?action=page&p_id=2152&lang=geo |access-date=2022-01-11 |archive-date= 2016-09-19 }}</ref> | population_total = 7 166 | population_as_of = 2014 | population_density_km2 = | population_est = | pop_est_as_of = | population_demonym = | population_note = |timezone = Georgian Time |utc_offset = +4 |timezone_DST = <!-- No DST in Georgia since 2005 --> | postal_code_type = | postal_code = }}
'''Tskneti''' ({{lang-ka|წყნეთი}}) is an urban-type settlement (Daba) in southwestern part of Vake District, Tbilisi, Georgia,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://theculturetrip.com/europe/georgia/articles/a-complete-neighborhood-guide-to-tbilisi/ | title=A Complete Neighborhood Guide to Tbilisi | website=theculturetrip.com | publisher=Culture Trip | access-date=21 May 2020 }}</ref> on the right bank of the river Mtkvari.
==Geography== Tskneti is located on the eastern slopes of the Trialeti Range, in the gorge of the Vere River (right tributary of the Mtkvari), 8 km from the center of Tbilisi and 950 m above sea level.
==Climate== The daba of Tskneti has a warm humid continental climate, with mild winters and long warm summers. The average temperature is 13 °C. The warmest month is August, at 24 °C, and the coldest January, at −2 °C.<ref name = "nasa">{{Cite web |url= http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|title= NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index|access-date = 30 January 2016 |publisher= NASA}}</ref> The average rainfall is 738 millimeters per year. The wettest month is May, with 122 millimeters of rain, and the driest December, with 31 millimeters.<ref name = "nasarain">{{Cite web |url= http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014|title= NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)|access-date = 30 January 2016 |publisher= NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission}}</ref>
==History== Late Bronze Age pottery and tombs have been found in the vicinity of Tskneti. It has been known as a summer place since ancient times. Intensive summer development in lower Tskneti started in the second half of the 19th-century, in upper Tskneti – in the 20th-century. Three small churches of 17th–19th centuries are preserved. It received the status of a Daba in 1967. In 2008, it was incorporated into the city of Tbilisi.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.geostat.ge/cms/site_images/_files/yearbook/Yearbook_2014.pdf |title=Statistical Yearbook Of Georgia, 2014 |accessdate=2016-04-01 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416141649/http://www.geostat.ge/cms/site_images/_files/yearbook/Yearbook_2014.pdf |archivedate=2016-04-16 }}</ref>
==Bibliography== *Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, V. 11, p. 372, Tbilisi, 1987
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Category:Populated places in Tbilisi Category:Vake District