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Shida Kartli is a 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 Presidential decrees from 1994 to 1996, into regions on a provisional basis until the secessionist conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia are resolved...

) 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...

. It consists of the following districts: Gori, Kaspi

Kaspi district, Georgia

Kaspi is a district of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli. Given a District status within Transcaucasian SFSR in 1930. District center is Kaspi....

, Kareli

Kareli district, Georgia

Kareli is a district of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli. Some northern territories of the district is part of a self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia and is not under control of Georgian government since 1992.- External links :* , Statoids.com...

, Java

Java district, Georgia

Java is a district of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli. The entire district is located in the Republic of South Ossetia and has not been under control of Georgian government since 1992...

, Khashuri

Khashuri district, Georgia

Khashuri is a district of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli.- External links :* , Statoids.com...

.

The northern part of the region, namely Java

Java district, Georgia

Java is a district of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli. The entire district is located in the Republic of South Ossetia and has not been under control of Georgian government since 1992...

, and northern territories of Kareli

Kareli district, Georgia

and Gori, (total area of 1,393 km²) is controlled by the authorities of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia

South Ossetia

South Ossetia or Tskhinvali Region is a disputed region and partly recognized state in the South Caucasus, located in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic....

since 1992.

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