Everything about Akhaltsikhe totally explained
Akhaltsikhe (;,
Akhaltskha; also known as
Lomsia) is a small city in southwestern
Georgia,
Mkhare (Province) of
Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 46,134. It is situated on the both banks of a small river
Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates as "new fortress".
History
The city is first mentioned in the chronicles in the
12th century. In the 12th -
13th centuries it was the seat of the
Akhaltsikhelis, dukes of
Samtskhe, whose two most illustrious representatives were Shalva and Ivane Akhaltsikheli (of Akhaltsikhe). From the 13th up to the
17th century the city and Samtkhe were governed by the feudal family of the Jakelis. In
1576 the
Ottomans took it and from
1628 the city became the centre of Akhaltsikhe Province of Ottoman Empire. In
1828, during the
Russo-Turkish War of
1828-
1829, Russian troops under the command of
General Paskevich captured the city and, as a consequence of the
1829 Treaty of Adrianople (Edirne), it was ceded to the
Russian Empire as part of first
Kutaisi and then
Tbilisi governorates. In the old part of the city one can see an old fortress, castle and mosque, the old fortress of the Jakelis (13th-
14th century), and
St Marine's Church. The hills nearby the city harbour the
Sapara Monastery (
10th -
14th centuries).
In the late 1980s the city was host to the
Soviet Army's 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division, which became a
brigade of the
Georgian land forces after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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