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Imereti Province (Georgian

Georgian alphabet

The Georgian alphabet is the writing system currently used to write the Georgian language and other South Caucasian languages , and occasionally other languages of the Caucasus ....
: ??????? ????? Imereti Mxare) is a province in 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....
situated along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni river

Rioni River

The Rioni River is the main river of western Georgia . It originates in the Caucasus Mountains, in the region of Racha and flows west to the Black Sea....
. It consists of the following Georgian administrative-territorial units:

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....
(city)
Baghdati
Baghdati

Baghdati is a town of 4,700 people in the Imereti region of western Georgia , at the edge of the Ajameti forest on the Khanistskali River. From 1940 to 1990, it was called Vladimir Mayakovsky after the Russian poet who was born there....
region
Vani
Vani

Vani is a town in Imereti region of western Georgia , at the Sulori river , 41 km southwest from the regional capital Kutaisi. The town with the population of 4,600 is an administrative center of the Vani raioni comprising also 43 neighbouring villages ....
region
Zestaponi
Zestaponi

Zestaponi is a town in Western Georgia region of Imereti and famous for its metals production. It has 25,891 inhabitants.During the 2008 South Ossetia War it was briefly controlled by Russian forces....
region
Terjola
Terjola

Terjola is a town in Imereti, Georgia , serving as an administrative center of the homonymous district.Terjola is situated in the Imereti Lowland in western Georgia, on the right bank of the Chkhara river....
region
Samtredia
Samtredia

Samtredia is a town in Imereti, Georgia , lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni River and Tskhenis-Tsqali, 244 km west of Tbilisi, and 27 km west of Kutaisi, the nation?s capital and the second largest city respectively....
region
Sachkhere
Sachkhere

Sachkhere is a town at the northern edge of the Imereti Province in Western Georgia ....
region
Tkibuli
Tkibuli

Tkibuli is a town in west-central Georgia , Imereti Region. It is located at around . It is situated at the northern edge of Imereti region, close to the region of Rach'a, at the foot of Nakerala mountain....
region
Chiatura
Chiatura

Chiatura is a city in the Imereti region of Western Georgia . In 1989, it had a population of about 30,000. It is inland, in a mountain valley on the banks of the Kvirila River, and since 1879 has been a major centre of manganese production in the Caucasus....
region
Tskhaltubo
Tskhaltubo

Tskhaltubo is a Spa town in west-central Georgia . It is located at around . It is the main town of the Tskhaltubo district of the Imereti province....
region
Kharagauli
Kharagauli

is the Imereti region of western Georgia.During the Soviet period, has been called to kharagauli Ordzjonikidze Gregory Ordzjonikidze, a senior official, who was born in 1886...
region
Khoni
Khoni

Khoni is a town in the Western Georgia region of Imereti with the population of 11,300 . It is situated on the left bank of the Tskhenistkali River in the north-west of Imereti, close to the border with the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and 266 km west of Georgia's capital Tbilisi....
region

The province's main city is 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....
; other urban industrial centers include Samtredia

Samtredia

Samtredia is a town in Imereti, Georgia , lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni River and Tskhenis-Tsqali, 244 km west of Tbilisi, and 27 km west of Kutaisi, the nation?s capital and the second largest city respectively....
, Chiatura

Chiatura

Chiatura is a city in the Imereti region of Western Georgia . In 1989, it had a population of about 30,000. It is inland, in a mountain valley on the banks of the Kvirila River, and since 1879 has been a major centre of manganese production in the Caucasus....
(manganese production centre), Tkibuli

Tkibuli

Tkibuli is a town in west-central Georgia , Imereti Region. It is located at around . It is situated at the northern edge of Imereti region, close to the region of Rach'a, at the foot of Nakerala mountain....
(coal

Coal

Coal is a readily combustion black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure....
mining centre), Zestaponi

Zestaponi

Zestaponi is a town in Western Georgia region of Imereti and famous for its metals production. It has 25,891 inhabitants.During the 2008 South Ossetia War it was briefly controlled by Russian forces....
(known for metals production), Khoni

Khoni

Khoni is a town in the Western Georgia region of Imereti with the population of 11,300 . It is situated on the left bank of the Tskhenistkali River in the north-west of Imereti, close to the border with the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and 266 km west of Georgia's capital Tbilisi....
, and Sachkhere

Sachkhere

Sachkhere is a town at the northern edge of the Imereti Province in Western Georgia ....
.

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Imereti Province (Georgian

Georgian alphabet

Georgia (country)

Rioni River

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....
(city)
Baghdati
Baghdati

Baghdati is a town of 4,700 people in the Imereti region of western Georgia , at the edge of the Ajameti forest on the Khanistskali River. From 1940 to 1990, it was called Vladimir Mayakovsky after the Russian poet who was born there....
region
Vani
Vani

Vani is a town in Imereti region of western Georgia , at the Sulori river , 41 km southwest from the regional capital Kutaisi. The town with the population of 4,600 is an administrative center of the Vani raioni comprising also 43 neighbouring villages ....
region
Zestaponi
Zestaponi

Zestaponi is a town in Western Georgia region of Imereti and famous for its metals production. It has 25,891 inhabitants.During the 2008 South Ossetia War it was briefly controlled by Russian forces....
region
Terjola
Terjola

Terjola is a town in Imereti, Georgia , serving as an administrative center of the homonymous district.Terjola is situated in the Imereti Lowland in western Georgia, on the right bank of the Chkhara river....
region
Samtredia
Samtredia

Samtredia is a town in Imereti, Georgia , lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni River and Tskhenis-Tsqali, 244 km west of Tbilisi, and 27 km west of Kutaisi, the nation?s capital and the second largest city respectively....
region
Sachkhere
Sachkhere

Sachkhere is a town at the northern edge of the Imereti Province in Western Georgia ....
region
Tkibuli
Tkibuli

Tkibuli is a town in west-central Georgia , Imereti Region. It is located at around . It is situated at the northern edge of Imereti region, close to the region of Rach'a, at the foot of Nakerala mountain....
region
Chiatura
Chiatura

Chiatura is a city in the Imereti region of Western Georgia . In 1989, it had a population of about 30,000. It is inland, in a mountain valley on the banks of the Kvirila River, and since 1879 has been a major centre of manganese production in the Caucasus....
region
Tskhaltubo
Tskhaltubo

Tskhaltubo is a Spa town in west-central Georgia . It is located at around . It is the main town of the Tskhaltubo district of the Imereti province....
region
Kharagauli
Kharagauli

is the Imereti region of western Georgia.During the Soviet period, has been called to kharagauli Ordzjonikidze Gregory Ordzjonikidze, a senior official, who was born in 1886...
region
Khoni
Khoni

Khoni is a town in the Western Georgia region of Imereti with the population of 11,300 . It is situated on the left bank of the Tskhenistkali River in the north-west of Imereti, close to the border with the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and 266 km west of Georgia's capital Tbilisi....
region

The province's main city is 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....
; other urban industrial centers include Samtredia

Samtredia

Chiatura

Tkibuli

Coal

Zestaponi

Khoni

Sachkhere

Sachkhere is a town at the northern edge of the Imereti Province in Western Georgia ....
. Traditionally, Imereti is an agricultural region, known for its mulberries

Mulberry

Morus or Mulberry is a genus of 10?16 species of deciduous trees native to warm, temperate, and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, with the majority of the species native to Asia....
and grapes.

The 800,000 Imeretians speak a Georgian

Georgian language

Georgian is the official language of Georgia , a country in the Caucasus .Georgian is the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad ....
dialect

Georgian dialects

Georgian language is a South Caucasian languages, or Kartvelian, language spoken by about 4.1 million people primarily in Georgia , but also in Russia, Turkey, Iran, and Azerbaijan....
; they are one of the local culture-groups of the ethnically subdivided Georgian people. In late antiquity

Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
and early Middle Ages

Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
the ancient western Georgian kingdom of Egrisi

Egrisi

Egrisi is a medieval Georgian language name for the region and kingdom in the western part of modern-day Georgia , known to the Byzantine Empire authors as Lazica and to Persian Empire as Lazistan after the Laz people tribe, which at some time dominated the local ruling ?lite....
existed on the territory of Imereti. Its king declared Christianity

Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
as an official religion of Egrisi in 523 AD. In 975-1466 Imereti was part of the united Georgian Kingdom. Since its disintegration in the 15th century, Imereti was an independent kingdom. In the 17th-18th centuries the kingdom of Imereti suffered frequent invasions by the Turks

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
and recognized to patronage of Ottoman Empire

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....
until 1810, when it was occupied and annexed by the Tsarist Russian Empire

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
. The last King of Imereti was Solomon II

Solomon II of Imereti

Solomon II , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was the last King of Imereti from 1789 to 1790 and from 1792 until his deposition by the Imperial Russian government in 1810....
(1789-1810). From 1918–1921, Imereti was part of the independent Democratic Republic of Georgia

Democratic Republic of Georgia

The Democratic Republic of Georgia , 1918?1921, was the first modern establishment of a Republic of Georgia .The DRG was created after the collapse of the Russian Empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917....
. Within the USSR, the region was part of the Transcaucasian SFSR

Transcaucasian SFSR

The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic , also known as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the TSFSR for short, was a short-lived republics of the Soviet Union....
from 1922–1936, and part of the Georgian SSR

Georgian SSR

The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Georgian SSR for short, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the former Soviet Union....
from 1936–1991. Since Georgian independence in 1991, Imereti has been a region in the Republic of Georgia with Kutaisi as the regional capital.

Imereti

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