Kutaisi
Kutaisi is
Georgia's second city (
Imereti region of Western Georgia), with a population in
1989 of about 230,000. Old name of this city is "Kutatisi". It was the capital of the ancient state of
Colchis. In
975-
1122 Kutaisi was the capital of the united Georgian Kingdom, in XV-XIX centuries - the capital of Imeretian Kingdom. In
1810 the Imeretian Kingdom was occupied by the Tsarist
Russia.
