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Khevi is a small historical-geographic area in northeastern 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....
. It is included in the modern-day Kazbegi district, Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Mtskheta-Mtianeti

Mtskheta-Mtianeti is a region in eastern Georgia comprising the town of Mtskheta, which serves as a regional capital, together with its district and the adjoining mountainous areas....
 region (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....
). Located on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus
Greater Caucasus

Greater Caucasus , sometimes translated as "Caucasus Major", "Big Caucasus" or "Large Caucasus") is the major mountain range of Caucasus Mountains....
 mountains, it comprises three gorges of the rivers Truso, Tergi (Terek
Terek

The Terek River is a major river in the Northern Caucasus, flowing through Georgia and Russia into the Caspian Sea. It rises in Georgia near the juncture of the Caucasus Mountains and the Khokh Range, to the southwest of Mount Kazbek, then flows north through North Ossetia and the city of Vladikavkaz....
) and Snostsq’ali.

The landscape of Khevi is dominated by alpine meadow
Alpine meadow

An alpine meadow is a high-altitude grassland plant Community located in an alpine climate, above the treeline of a mountain.Alpine meadows, along with sub-alpine meadows, are part of the Montane grasslands and shrublands biome as defined by the World Wildlife Fund They form where sediments from the weathering of rocks has produced soils...
s dotted with rhododendron
Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It is a large genus with over 1000 species and most have showy flower displays....
, mountain passes and waterfall
Waterfall

A waterfall is usually a geology geologic formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a nickpoint, or sudden break in elevation....
s, and the Mount Kazbek
Mount Kazbek

Mount Kazbek , is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the chief mountains of the Caucasus. It is located on the border of Georgia and Russia, dominating the town of Stepantsminda....
 (locally known as Mkinvartsveri, i.e.






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Khevi is a small historical-geographic area in northeastern 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....
. It is included in the modern-day Kazbegi district, Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Mtskheta-Mtianeti

Mtskheta-Mtianeti is a region in eastern Georgia comprising the town of Mtskheta, which serves as a regional capital, together with its district and the adjoining mountainous areas....
 region (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....
). Located on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus
Greater Caucasus

Greater Caucasus , sometimes translated as "Caucasus Major", "Big Caucasus" or "Large Caucasus") is the major mountain range of Caucasus Mountains....
 mountains, it comprises three gorges of the rivers Truso, Tergi (Terek
Terek

The Terek River is a major river in the Northern Caucasus, flowing through Georgia and Russia into the Caspian Sea. It rises in Georgia near the juncture of the Caucasus Mountains and the Khokh Range, to the southwest of Mount Kazbek, then flows north through North Ossetia and the city of Vladikavkaz....
) and Snostsq’ali.

The landscape of Khevi is dominated by alpine meadow
Alpine meadow

An alpine meadow is a high-altitude grassland plant Community located in an alpine climate, above the treeline of a mountain.Alpine meadows, along with sub-alpine meadows, are part of the Montane grasslands and shrublands biome as defined by the World Wildlife Fund They form where sediments from the weathering of rocks has produced soils...
s dotted with rhododendron
Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It is a large genus with over 1000 species and most have showy flower displays....
, mountain passes and waterfall
Waterfall

A waterfall is usually a geology geologic formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a nickpoint, or sudden break in elevation....
s, and the Mount Kazbek
Mount Kazbek

Mount Kazbek , is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the chief mountains of the Caucasus. It is located on the border of Georgia and Russia, dominating the town of Stepantsminda....
 (locally known as Mkinvartsveri, i.e. “ice-capped”), a dormant 5047-meter high volcano. The area is a popular tourist destination. It is a part of the projected Khevi-Aragvi Biosphere Reserve. Among the important cultural sites of Khevi are the Gergeti Trinity Church
Gergeti Trinity Church

File:The Tsminda Sameba church, Kazbegi .jpgGergeti Trinity Church is a popular name for Holy Trinity Church near the village of Gergeti in the Republic of Georgia....
 (fourteenth century), Garbani Church (ninth to tenth century), Sioni Basilica (ninth century) and castle, Betlemi Monastery Complex (ninth to tenth century), and Sno fortress.

The name of this province, literally meaning "a gorge", comes from the ancient and early medieval district of Tzanaria
Tzanaria

Tzanaria was a historic district in the early medieval Caucasus, lying chiefly in what is now the northwestern corner of Georgia ?s Mtskheta-Mtianeti mkhare....
 known to the Georgian annals as Tzanaretis Khevi, i.e. the Tzanar Gorge. People of Khevi are ethnic Georgians called Mokheves. History, traditions and lifestyle of the Mokheves are very similar to those of other mountaineers of eastern Georgia. Since ancient times, Khevi has been of great strategic and military importance due chiefly to its immediate neighborhood to the Darial Pass, which connects North Caucasus
North Caucasus

The North Caucasus, also Ciscaucasus, Ciscaucasia or Forecaucasia, is the northern part of the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia....
 with Transcaucasia. Free of typical feudal relations, they lived in a patriarchal community governed by a khevisberi (i.e. “gorge elder”) who functioned as a judge, priest and military leader. The Khevian mountainous communities were regarded as direct vassals of the Georgian crown except for the period from the end of the seventeenth century to 1743, when the area was placed under the control of the semi-autonomous Duchy of the Aragvi. A fierce resistance offered by the Mokheves to the attempts of the Aragvian lords has been largely reflected in local folklore as well as classical Georgian literature. The establishment of the Russian
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....
 rule in Georgia (1801) was met hostile by the mountaineers who staged, in 1804, an uprising, which was promptly suppressed by the Tsar
Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
ist military. However, the people of Khevi retained their medieval traditions and a unique form of society until the harsh Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 rule changed their lifestyle through permanent repressions, forcibly removing several families to the lowlands.

See also

  • Khevsureti
    Khevsureti

    Khevsureti is a historical-ethnographic region in eastern Georgia . They are the branch of Kartvelian people located along both the northern and southern slopes of the Great Caucasus Mountains....
  • Pshavi
    Pshavi

    Pshavi is a small historic-geographic area in Georgia , included in today?s Mtskheta-Mtianeti mkhare and laying chiefly on the southern foothills of the Greater Caucasus mountains along Aragvi River and the lower Iori River....
  • Tusheti
    Tusheti

    Tusheti, or Tushetia, is a historic region in northeast Georgia ....


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