Akhaltsikhe

Ahalcihe is a small metropolis in Georgia's southwestern area mkhare of Samtskhe–Javakheti. It is situated at the each banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old metropolis in the north and new in the south. In the vintage a part of the metropolis one could see the notable Rabati Castle, constructed by way of the Ottomans around a mosque, and St. Marine's Church. The hills close by the metropolis harbour the Sapara Monastery tenth–14th centuries. The city is first cited in the chronicles inside the twelfth century. In the 12th–13th centuries it changed into the seat of the House of Akhaltsikhe, dukes of Samtskhe, whose two maximum illustrious representatives have been Shalva and Ivane Akhaltsikheli.

From the thirteenth as much as the seventeenth century the metropolis and Samtkhe had been ruled by using the House of Jaqeli. In 1576 the Ottomans took it and from 1628 the city became the centre of the Akhalzik Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire as Ahıska. In 1828, throughout the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, Russian troops under the command of General Paskevich captured the metropolis and, because of the 1829 Treaty of Adrianople Edirne, it changed into ceded to the Russian Empire as a part of first Kutais after which Tiflis Governorates.