Imereti

Imereti იმერეთი
Province
Coordinates: 42°10′N 42°59′E
Kintra	Georgie
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Zviad Shalamberidze
Area
• Total	6552 km2 (2,530 sq mi)
Population  (2014)
• Total	533,906
• Density	81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+4
Region ISO 3166 code	GE-IM
Caipital	Kutaisi
Destricts	11 destricts, 1 ceety
Website	imereti.ge

Imereti (Georgie: იმერეთი) is a province in Georgie situatit alang the middle an upper reaches o the Rioni river.

In late antiquity an early Middle Ages the auncient wastren Georgie kinrick o Egrisi existit on the territory o Imereti. Its king declared Christianity as an offeecial releegion o Egrisi in 523 AD. In 975-1466 Imereti wis pairt o the unitit Georgie Kinrick. Syne its disintegration in the 15t century, Imereti wis an independent kinrick.

In the 17t-18t centuries the kinrick of Imereti suffered frequent invasions bi the Turks an recognizit tae patronage o Ottoman Empire till 1810, when it wis annexed bi the Roushie Empire. The last king o Imereti wis Solomon II (1789-1810).

Frae 1918 tae 1921, Imereti wis pairt o the independent Democratic Republic o Georgie. Athin the USSR, the region wis pairt o the Transcaucasian SFSR frae 1922–1936, an pairt o the Georgie SSR frae 1936–1991. Syne Georgie unthirldom in 1991, Imereti haes been a region in the Georgie wi Kutaisi as the regional caipital.

Admeenistrative diveesions

Imereti consists o the follaein Georgie admeenistrative-territorial units:

1. Kutaisi (ceety)
2. Baghdati region
3. Vani region
4. Zestafoni region
5. Terjola region
6. Samtredia region
7. Sachkhere region
8. Tkibuli region
9. Chiatura region
10. Tskaltubo region
11. Kharagauli region
12. Khoni region

The province's main ceety is Kutaisi; ither urban industrial centers include Samtredia, Chiatura (manganese production centre), Tkibuli (coal minin centre), Zestaponi (kent for metals production), Khoni, an Sachkhere. Traditionally, Imereti is an agricultural region, kent for its mulberries an grapes.

Leid

The 550,000 Imeretians speak a Georgie dialect; they are ane o the local cultur-groups o the ethnically subdividit Georgie fowk.

See an aw

• Kinrick o Imereti

Freemit airtins

• Imereti.com - The Guide to Imereti, Georgia, Sakartvelo
• Offeecial website Archived 2007-07-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Civil.GE Archived 2012-09-16 at the Wayback Machine