Aslan-Bey actively fought together with King Solomon II of Imereti against Tsarist Russian forces.
The Chiatura mine is a large mine complex located near the town of Chiatura in central - western Georgia in the Imereti region west of the national capital Tbilisi.
In the western Georgian provinces of Imereti and Racha, it was sometimes called Churchkhela, a name more commonly applied to walnuts sewn onto a string, dipped in thickened white grape juice and dried.
It is grown as an ornamental tree in Europe (huge exemplars of it can be found quite often in western part of Georgia called Imereti, used for decorating courtyards in villages and making a pleasant shadow) and more rarely in North America (where the related Japanese Z. serrata is more popular).
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Alexander IV of Imereti (died 1695), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, king of Imereti (western Georgia)
It was headed by the Catholicos (later, Catholicos Patriarch), officially styled as the Catholicos Patriarch of Imereti, Odishi, Ponto-Abkhaz-Guria, Racha-Lechkhum-Svaneti, Ossetians, Dvals, and all of the North.
George IX of Imereti (1712–post-1772), a king of the Georgian kingdom of Imereti
--1586?-->, the tsar decreed that the dynasties of the ruler of Imeretia in the Caucasus along with the Tatar princes of Siberia and Kasimov were to be into the Genealogical Book of the Russian nobility.
The Ottomans, which saw Imereti as the sphere of their influence, sent in an army, but Solomon succeeded in mobilizing his nobles around him and defeated the invaders at the Battle of Khresili in 1757.