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Imereti
Summary
Imereti (Georgian: იმერეთი) is a region of Georgia situated in the central-western part of the republic along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni River. Imereti is the most populous region in Georgia. It consists of 11 municipalities and the city of Kutaisi, which is the capital of the region.
The Imereti region has one self governing city (Kutaisi) and 11 municipalities with 163 administrative communities (temi), totalling to 549 populated settlements:
Eleven cities: Baghdati, Chiatura, Khoni, Kutaisi, Sachkhere, Samtredia, Terjola, Tqibuli, Tsqaltubo, Vani and Zestafoni;
Three dabas: Kharagauli, Kulashi and Shorapani;
Villages: 535
Aside from the capital Kutaisi, significant towns and regional centres include Samtredia, Chiatura (manganese production centre), Tkibuli (coal mining centre), Zestafoni (known for metals production), Vani, Khoni, and Sachkhere. Traditionally, Imereti is an agricultural region, known for its mulberries and grapes.
The 800,000 Imeretians speak a Georgian dialect; they are one of the local culture-groups of the ethnically subdivided Georgian people.
Anciently the region was a part of Colchis, and included in Lazia during the Roman empire. Then called Imeretia, it was nominally under the dominion of the Byzantine Empire. In the early part of the 6th century it became the theatre of wars between the emperor Justinian I and Khosrow I, king of Persia.
In late antiquity and early Middle Ages the ancient western Georgian kingdom of Egrisi existed on the territory of Imereti. Its king declared Christianity as an official religion of Egrisi in 523 AD.
Between 750 and 985 it was ruled by a dynasty of native princes, but was devastated by hostile incursions, reviving only after it became united to Georgia, and until 1466 Imereti was part of the united Georgian Kingdom. Since that kingdom's disintegration in the 15th century, Imereti was an independent kingdom.
In the 17th–18th centuries, the kingdom of Imereti experienced frequent invasions by the Turks and paid patronage to the Ottoman Empire until 1810, when it was invaded and annexed by the Russian Empire.
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