Kakheti

Kakheti is a vicinity mkhare shaped inside the 1990s in jap Georgia from the historical province of Kakheti and the small, mountainous province of Tusheti. Telavi is its capital. The vicinity contains 8 administrative districts: Telavi, Gurjaani, Qvareli, Sagarejo, Dedoplistsqaro, Signagi, Lagodekhi and Akhmeta. Kakheti is bordered through the Russian Federation Dagestan and Chechnya to the Northeast, Azerbaijan to the Southeast, and Mtskheta-Mtianeti and Kvemo Kartli to the west. Kakheti has a sturdy linguistic and cultural identification, on account that its ethnographic subgroup of Kakhetians talk Kakhetian dialect.

Kakheti became an impartial principality from the stop of the eighth century. It turned into included into the united Georgian Kingdom at the beginning of the 11th century, but for much less than a decade. Only inside the starting of the twelfth century did Georgian King David the Builder c.1089–1125 include Kakheti into his Kingdom efficiently. After the disintegration of the Georgian Kingdom, Kakheti became an impartial Kingdom within the 1460s. From the early 16th century until the early nineteenth century, Kakheti and its neighboring Kartli got here below intermittent Iranian rule.