# Tskneti

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|native_name=წყნეთი
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'''Tskneti''' ({{lang-ka|წყნეთი}}) is an [urban-type settlement](/source/urban-type_settlement) ([Daba](/source/Daba_(settlement))) in southwestern part of [Vake District](/source/Vake_District), [Tbilisi](/source/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](/source/Mtkvari).

==Geography==
Tskneti is located on the eastern slopes of the [Trialeti Range](/source/Trialeti_Range), in the gorge of the [Vere River](/source/Vere_(river)) (right tributary of the [Mtkvari](/source/Mtkvari)), 8&nbsp;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&nbsp;°C. The warmest month is August, at 24&nbsp;°C, and the coldest January, at −2&nbsp;°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](/source/Daba_(settlement)) 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](/source/Georgian_Soviet_Encyclopedia), V. 11, p.&nbsp;372, Tbilisi, 1987

==References==
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{{Districts and neighborhoods of Tbilisi}}

Category:Populated places in Tbilisi
Category:Vake District

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