Tazaqendi is a village of Gardabani Municipality, in the region of Kvemo Kartli, in the administrative unit of Kalinino.
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It lies on the plain of Gardabani, near the highway from Tbilisi to Gardabani, 320 metres above sea level, 6 kilometres from Gardabani. The village is in the historical land of Borchalo.
The village was founded in 1919 by men of the Turkic tribe of the Teqelis; the name Tazaqendi means the new village in Azerbaijani.
The people are mostly busy with the keeping of sheep and cattle, with the growing of vegetables and of herbs; a works for the treating of manganese is at work in the village, and the secondary school was built in 2006.
Of the people of the village, 99.9 per cent are Azerbaijanis.
At the 2002 census the village had 1,856 inhabitants — 880 men and 976 women. At the census of 2014 the village had 1,185 inhabitants — 588 men and 597 women.