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IMERETIA, or IMERITIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 331 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IMERETIA, or IMERITIA a See also:district in See also:Russian See also:Transcaucasia, extends from the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Tskheniz-Tskhali to the Suram range, which separates it from See also:Georgia on the See also:east, and is bounded on the See also:south by See also:Akhaltsikh, and thus corresponds roughly to the eastern See also:part of the See also:modern See also:government of See also:Kutais. Anciently a part of See also:Colchis, and included in Lazia during the See also:Roman See also:empire, Imeretia was nominally under the dominion of the See also:Greek emperors. In the See also:early part of the 6th See also:century it became the See also:theatre of See also:wars between the See also:Byzantine See also:emperor Justinian and See also:Chosroes, or Khosrau, See also:king of See also:Persia. Between 750 and 985 it was ruled by a See also:dynasty (Apkhaz) of native princes, but was devastated by hostile incursions, reviving only after it became See also:united to Georgia. It flourished until the reign of See also:Queen Thamar, but after her See also:death (1212) the See also:country became impoverished through strife and See also:internal dissensions. It was reunited with Georgia from 1318 to 1346, and again in 1424. But the See also:union only lasted See also:forty-five years; from 1469 until 18ro it was governed by a Bagratid dynasty, closely akin to that which ruled over Georgia. In 1621 it made the earliest See also:appeal to See also:Russia for aid; in 1650 it acknowledged Russian See also:suzerainty and in 1769 a Russian force expelled the See also:Turks. In 1803 the monarch declared himself a See also:vassal of Russia, and in 1810 the little See also:kingdom was definitively annexed to that empire.

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