Kutaisi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the third-most populous city in Georgia after Tbilisi and Batumi. Situated 221 kilometres west of Tbilisi, on the Rioni River, it is the capital of the western region of Imereti.
Image: Downtown Kutaisi & White Bridge as seen from Mt Gora (August 2011) cropped
Image: Kutaisi. A renovated downtown street (Photo A. Muhranoff, 2010)
Image: 2014 Kutaisi, Katedra Bagrati (19)
Kutaisi in 1885
Tbilisi, in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people. Tbilisi was founded in the fifth century AD by Vakhtang I of Iberia, and since then has served as the capital of various Georgian kingdoms and republics. Between 1801 and 1917, then part of the Russian Empire, Tiflis was the seat of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, governing both the northern and the southern parts of the Caucasus.
Image: Tbilisi, Georgia. View on historical neighborhoods from a hill
Image: Freedom Square, Tbilisi, Georgia
Image: Sameba Cathedral, Tbilisi کلیسای سامبا در تفلیس گرجستان 11
Image: 2018 The Sioni Cathedral
