Imereti

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იმერეთი
Imereti

Region within Georgia
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Türkei Armenien Aserbaidschan Russland Abchasien Mingrelien und Oberswanetien Gurien Adscharien Imeretien Ratscha-Letschchumi und Niederswanetien Innerkartlien Mzcheta-Mtianeti Samzche-Dschawachetien Niederkartlien Tiflis KachetienLocation within Georgia
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National languages Georgian
ethnicities according to the 2014 census:
Georgians (99.3%)
Russians (0.25%)
Armenians (0.13%)
Religions according to the 2002 census:
Orthodox (99.1%)
Capital Kutaisi
Biggest cities Kutaisi (147.635 Ew., 2014)
Status within Georgia region
surface 6552.3 km²
Total population 533,906 (2014)
Population density 81.8 inhabitants / km²
governor Zurab Khajaia
website www.imereti.ge

Imeretien ( Georgian იმერეთი , imereti ; completely იმერეთის მხარე , Imeretis Mchare ) is a region of Georgia . It is located on the middle course of the Rioni River and borders in the west on Mingrelia and Guria , in the north on Ratscha-Letschchumi and Lower Vanetia , in the east on Inner Kartli and in the south on Samtskhe-Javakheti . Their capital is Kutaisi .

history

Imeretia gives its name to the cultural group between the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene, which was previously only published in English as Imeretian .

Imereti was for a long time part of Colchis and later Lasika . Smaller areas in the east also belonged to Iberia . After the Arabs invaded the Caucasus region, Lasika disintegrated, and Imereti became part of Egrisis , which was later united with Abkhazia .

In 975 it became part of the unified Georgian Kingdom . In 1466 it became independent again and formed one of the three Georgian kingdoms.

It later became part of the Ottoman Empire . In 1810 Imeretia was conquered by the Russian Empire . From 1918 to 1921 Imereti was part of the Republic of Georgia, from 1922 to 1991 it was part of the Georgian SSR (between 1922 and 1936 as part of the Transcaucasian SFSR ). Since the independence of Georgia from the Soviet Union in 1991 it has been a Georgian province.

society

The population speaks a Georgian dialect and is part of the diverse Georgian people. Since Lasika's conversion to Christianity in 523 , this has been the predominant religion.

Administrative division

Imereti is divided into twelve municipalities (munizipaliteti) , which are named after their administrative offices:

The extreme north-eastern part of the municipality of Satschere, with several villages, lies on the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia , which is striving for independence from Georgia and is recognized by some states , and which administers this area as part of its Dzau district.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b მოსახლეობის საყოველთაო აღწერა 2014 . საქართველოს სტატისტიკის ეროვნული სამსახური. ნოემბერი 2014. Retrieved on 7 ნოემბერი, 2016.
  2. ↑ Religions according to the National Census 2002 (pdf) ( Memento from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ საქართველოს მოსახლეობის 2002 წლის პირველი ეროვნული საყოველთაო აღწერის შედეგები: ტომი I ( Memento from October 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). მთავარი რედაქტორი: თეიმურაზ ბერიძე. თბილისი: საქართველოს სტატისტიკის ეროვნული სამსახური, 2003, გვერდი 52. ISBN 99928-0-768-7
  4. ↑ Boris Gasparyan, Makoko Arimura (ed.). Stone age of Armenia. Monograph of the JSPS-Bilateral Joint Research Project Center for Cultural Resource Studies, Kanazawa University, 2014

Coordinates: 42 ° 10 ′  N , 42 ° 59 ′  E