Gremi

Gremi is a 16th-century architectural monument – the royal fortress and the Church of the Archangels – in Kakheti, Georgia. The complex is what has survived from the once flourishing town of Gremi and is positioned southwest of the prevailing-day village of the same name in the Kvareli district, one hundred seventy five kilometers east of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. Gremi turned into the capital of the Kingdom of Kakheti inside the sixteenth and 17th centuries. Founded by using Levan of Kakheti, it functioned as a lively trading city at the Silk Road and royal residence until being razed to the floor through the armies of Shah Abbas I of Persia in 1615. The city never regained its past prosperity and the kings of Kakheti transferred their capital to Telavi within the mid-seventeenth century.

There turned into huge Armenian population. The Russian diplomat Fedor Volkonsky, who changed into here within the seventeenth century, said: Armenians have very own church and marketplace behind one changed into different church". He additionally stated approximately 10 Armenian church buildings close to the palace of king. The town seems to have occupied the area of approximately forty hectares and to have been composed of three important parts – the Archangels’ Church complicated, the royal residence and the industrial neighborhood.