Kutaisi

Kutaisi is the third maximum populous city in Georgia, historically, 2d in importance, after the capital city of Tbilisi. Situated 221 kilometres west of Tbilisi, on the Rioni River, it's far the capital of the western area of Imereti. Historically one of the major cities of Georgia, it served as the capital of the Kingdom of Georgia in the Middle Ages, and later because the capital of the Kingdom of Imereti.

From October 2012 to December 2018, Kutaisi in short becomes the seat of the Parliament of Georgia as an attempt to decentralise the Georgian government. Kutaisi become the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Colchis. Archaeological evidence indicates that the metropolis functioned as the capital of the kingdom of Colchis in the 6th to 5th centuries BC. It's believed that, in Argonautica, a Greek epic poem approximately Jason and the Argonauts and their journey to Colchis, author Apollonius Rhodius taken into consideration Kutaisi their final destination as well as the house of King Aeëtes.