Guria

Guria is a place in Georgia, within the western part of the country, bordered with the aid of the eastern quit of the Black Sea. The area has a population of 113,000, with Ozurgeti as the nearby capital. The toponym "Guria" is first attested within the c. 800 Georgian chronicle of Pseudo-Juansher. Guria first seems c. 1352 as a fief of the residence of Vardanidze-Dadiani; and after 1463 it became a sovereign principality impartial of the Kingdom of Georgia underneath a department of that residence, known thereafter by way of the call of Gurieli. The principality, comprising current Guria and much of Adjara with the town of Batumi, turned into sooner or later contracted and devastated in a chain of conflicts with the Ottoman Empire.

A Russian protectorate changed into set up with the aid of the treaty concluded on June 19, 1810 among Mamia V Gurieli and the empire, and in 1829, at some stage in the regency for the final prince, the Gurieli David, the principality turned into annexed by using Russia. There had been uprisings against Russian rule in 1819 and again in 1841. In 1840, Guria changed into made a county and renamed Ozurgeti, after one in all its fundamental cities.