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Akhaltsikhe (; ; ), Akhaltskha; also known as Lomsia) is a small city in southwestern Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
, Mkhare
Mkhare

Mkhare is a subdivision in the country of Georgia . It is usually translated as region.The country is divided, according to the President of Georgia decrees from 1994 to 1996, into regions on a provisional basis until the secessionist conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia are resolved....
 (Province) of Samtskhe-Javakheti
Samtskhe-Javakheti

Meskheti-Javakheti is a region in southern Georgia , with Akhaltsikhe as its capital. Samtskhe-Javakheti comprises six administrative districts: Akhaltsikhe, Adigeni, Aspindza, Borjomi, Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda....
 with a population of 46,134. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates as "new fortress".

city is first mentioned in the chronicles in the 12th century.






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Akhaltsikhe (; ; ), Akhaltskha; also known as Lomsia) is a small city in southwestern Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
, Mkhare
Mkhare

Mkhare is a subdivision in the country of Georgia . It is usually translated as region.The country is divided, according to the President of Georgia decrees from 1994 to 1996, into regions on a provisional basis until the secessionist conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia are resolved....
 (Province) of Samtskhe-Javakheti
Samtskhe-Javakheti

Meskheti-Javakheti is a region in southern Georgia , with Akhaltsikhe as its capital. Samtskhe-Javakheti comprises six administrative districts: Akhaltsikhe, Adigeni, Aspindza, Borjomi, Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda....
 with a population of 46,134. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates as "new fortress".

History

The city is first mentioned in the chronicles in the 12th century. In the 12th - 13th centuries it was the seat of the Akhaltsikheli
Akhaltsikheli

Akhaltsikheli were a Georgia noble family prominent in the end of the 12th to the mid-13th centuries. Their name came from the city of Akhaltsikhe, their original fiefdom....
s, dukes of Samtskhe, whose two most illustrious representatives were Shalva and Ivane Akhaltsikheli (of Akhaltsikhe). From the 13th up to the 17th century the city and Samtkhe were governed by the feudal family of the Jakelis. In 1576 the Ottomans
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 took it and from 1628 the city became the centre of Akhaltsikhe Province of Ottoman Empire. In 1828, during the Russo-Turkish War
Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829

The Russo?Turkish War of 1828?1829 was sparked by the Greek War of Independence. The war broke out after the Sultan, incensed by the Russian participation in the Battle of Navarino, closed the Dardanelles for Russian ships and revoked the Akkerman Convention....
 of 1828-1829, Russian troops under the command of General Paskevich
Ivan Paskevich

Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich was a Ukraine-born military leader in the Russian service. For his victories, he was made Count of Erivan in 1828 and Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland in 1831....
 captured the city and, as a consequence of the 1829 Treaty of Adrianople
Treaty of Adrianople

The Peace Treaty of Adrianople concluded the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire. It was signed on September 14, 1829 in Adrianople by Russia's Count Aleksey Orlov and by Turkey's Abdul Kadyr-bey....
 (Edirne), it was ceded to the Russian Empire as part of first Kutaisi
Kutaisi

Kutaisi is Georgia 's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi....
 and then Tbilisi
Tbilisi

Tbilisi , is the capital city and the largest city of Georgia , lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tpilisi and it was officially known as ?????? in Russian, until 1936....
 governorates
Guberniya

Guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor or , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek ....
. In the old part of the city one can see an old fortress, castle and mosque, the old fortress of the Jakelis (13th-14th century), and St Marine's Church. The hills nearby the city harbour the Sapara Monastery (10th - 14th centuries). In the late 1980s the city was host to the Soviet Army's 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division, which became a brigade
Brigade

A brigade is a military unit that is typically composed of two to five regiments or battalions, depending on the era and nationality of a given army....
 of the Georgian land forces after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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See also

  • Battle of Akhalzic
    Battle of Akhalzic

    The Battle of Akhalzic may refer to one of the following:*A battle under the walls of Akhaltsikhe during the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 on August 9 between 9,000 Russians under Field-Marshal Paskevich and 30,000 Turks under Kios-Mahomet-Pasha....

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