Zestaponi

Zestafoni or Zestaponi is the administrative center of Zestafoni District in Western Georgia. Zestafoni is the middle of an ancient, historical a part of Georgia Margveti, that's a part of Imereti province. Zestafoni is the center of Margveti's Eparchy of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

Zestafoni is situated in the furthest east of the Colchis Plateau, and is constructed on each banks of the river Kvirila. Zestafoni lies 2 kilometres west of the small however historical fort city of Shorapani, founded by means of Pharnavaz I of Iberia within the 3rd century BC. The city of Zestafoni is first mentioned in historic records within the 1560s. The call of the metropolis is connected with the financial institution of river Kvirila, upper bank, that turned into used by the neighborhood populace and overseas tourists from historic times. In the 1820s a Cossack army was published within the town, which changed into then known as Kvirila after the river that runs thru it. In the 1920s the call become changed once more to Jugeli, after a well-known revolutionary. Only later did the town regain its ancient name.