Narazeni is a village in Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 situated 17 km east of Zugdidi

Zugdidi

Zugdidi is a city in the Western Georgian historical province of Samegrelo . It is situated in the north-west of that province. The city is located 318 kilometres west of Tbilisi, 30 km. from Black sea coast and 30 km. from Egrisi range. 100-110 metres above sea level. As of 2007, it had a...

. The village has a population of 38,550. In the village are three schools, a kindergarten

Kindergarten

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, ambulance

Ambulance

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, police, and a few shops. Through the village flows the Chanistskali River

Chanistskali River

The Chanistskali River is a river in the historic Mengrelia province of Georgia, which flouds between the Zugdidi, Tsalenjikha and Khobi regions. the river is connected with the Khobistskali river in the village Caladidi....

. During the Soviet period, Narazeni was a farming village. There were tea plantations, fruit gardens, and mandarine

Mandarin orange

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 plantations. Presently, the head of the village is Zamir Janjgava (2009- ). The village is partly mountainous. Narazeni residents speak Mengrelian, Georgian

Georgian language

Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...

, Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 and a little English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. The village was on the transit way in the period of the Silk Road

Silk Road

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.Durning Soviet period in the village was published newspaper in megrelian language

Megrelian language

Mingrelian, or Megrelian , is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia , primarily by Georgians of Mingrelian origin. The language was also called Iverian in the early 20th century...

,which called "narazenish chai".