Ambrolauri

Ambrolauri is a town in Georgia, positioned within the western part of the united states, on both banks of the Rioni river, on the elevation of 550 m above sea stage. It is a self-governing town.1 At the identical time, the metropolis serves as the seat of the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti regional management and of the Ambrolauri Municipality. According to the 2014 census, the city had a population of two,047. Its area is 1.6 km2. Ambrolauri is first recorded in the seventeenth century as a place, wherein one of the palaces of the kings of Imereti became located. It obtained the town popularity in 1966 and have become a self-governing city with its very own municipal authorities in 2014. The territory of Ambrolauri has no longer been systematically studied archaeologically. The toponym Ambrolauri is known from the 17th century. The Russian diplomat Alexey Yevlev, who visited the Kingdom of Imereti in 1650,

after which the Georgian scholar Prince Vakhushti, writing c. 1745, point out a royal citadel at Ambrolauri, wherein the Krikhula River will become a tributary of the Rioni. Only insignificant ruins of that palace have survived. The name of the metropolis may additionally had been derived from the surname Amarolisdze, while the settlement may want to have earlier been known as Metekhara, a toponym recorded in the eleventh-century constitution to the Nikortsminda Cathedral.