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Imereti Province (
Georgian: იმერეთი მხარე
Imereti Mxare) is a province in
Georgia situated along the middle and upper reaches of the
Rioni river. It consists of the following Georgian administrative-territorial units:
- Kutaisi (city)
- Baghdati region
- Vani region
- Zestaponi region
- Terjola region
- Samtredia region
- Sachkhere region
- Tkibuli region
- Chiatura region
- Tskhaltubo region
- Kharagauli region
- Khoni region
The province's main city is
Kutaisi; other urban industrial centers include
Samtredia,
Chiatura (manganese production centre),
Tkibuli (
coal mining centre),
Zestaponi (known for metals production),
Khoni, and
Sachkhere. Traditionally, Imereti is an agricultural region, known for its
mulberries and
grapes.
The 800,000 Imeretians speak a
Georgian dialect; they're one of the local culture-groups of the ethnically subdivided
Georgian people. 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. 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 and recognized to patronage of
Ottoman Empire until
1810, when it was occupied and annexed by the Tsarist
Russian Empire. The last King of Imereti was
Solomon II (
1789-
1810).
From
1918-
1921, Imereti was part of the independent
Democratic Republic of Georgia. Within the
USSR, the region was part of the
Transcaucasian SFSR from
1922-
1936, and part of the
Georgian SSR from
1936-
1991. Since Georgian independence in 1991, Imereti has been a region in the Republic of Georgia with Kutaisi as the regional capital.
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