Batumi (geo)

Batumi

Batumi ranks 1,321st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Urbana, Illinois, Mataró, and Flushing, Queens. Memorable people born in Batumi include Herbert Backe, Aslan Abashidze, and Mary Eristavi. Batumi has been the birth place of many politicians, and singers. Batumi is located in Georgia.

Batumi, historically Batum or Batoum, is the second-largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest, 20 kilometers north of the border with Turkey. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of the Caucasus. Much of Batumi's economy revolves around tourism and gambling, but the city is also an important seaport and includes industries like shipbuilding, food processing and light manufacturing. Since 2010, Batumi has been transformed by the construction of modern high-rise buildings, as well as the restoration of classical 19th-century edifices lining its historic Old Town. Read more on Wikipedia