Imereti
Niko Berdzenishvili Kutaisi History Museum (web)
Kutaisi Sport History Museum
Kutaisi Museum of Zakaria Paliashvili
Kutaisi Museum of Military Glory
Kutaisi Fine Art Gallery
Kutaisi-Gelati State Museum-Reserve
Niko Nikoladze House Museum
Samtredia Picture Gallery
Akaki Shanidze House Museum
Khoni Local Museum
Polikarpe Kakabadze House-Museum
Irakli Abashidze House Museum
Giorgi Akhvlediani Tskaltubo Local Museum
Niko Lortkipanidze House Museum
Tskhaltubo Fine Art Museum
Vani Fine Art Museum
Galaktion and Titsian Tabidze House Museum
Georgian National Museum. Vani Archaeological Museum
Chiatura Local Museum
Giorgi Tsereteli House Museum
Mountain-climber Japaridze House Museum
Tkibuli Local Museum
Vladimir Mayakovsky House Museum
Chkhari Agriculture and Craft Museum
David and Sergo Kldiashvili House Museum
Shalva and Petre Amiranashvili House Museum
Zestaponi Local Museum
Ushangi Chkheidze House Museum
Kharagauli Local Museum
Ghoresha Museum of the Village History
Sachkhere Local Museum
Akaki Tsereteli State Museum
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Imereti (Georgian: იმერეთი) is a region 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
- Zestafoni region
- Terjola region
- Samtredia region
- Sachkhere region
- Tkibuli region
- Chiatura region
- Tskaltubo region
- Kharagauli region
- Khoni region
The region's main city is Kutaisi; other urban industrial centers 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.
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 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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... Her maternal grandparent were Alexander I of Imereti and Ana Orbeliani ... Alexander of Imereti was a son of Bagrat I of Imereti and an unnamed daughter of Qvarqvare II Jakeli, atabeg of Samtskhe ...