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3 unusual facts about Kutaisi


Aeëtes

Aeëtes built a new colony in Colchis, near the mouth of the large river Phasis, and called it Aea.

Akın Kuloğlu

Akın Kuloğlu (born February 6, 1972 in Kutaisi, Georgia – August 20, 2001 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) was a Georgian-born Turkish boxer who competed in the men's middleweight division (75 kg) at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Alex d'Arbeloff

He was born to a Georgian noble Vladimir d'Arbeloff, from Koutais, and German-Russian Baroness Catherine T. (Tiepolt) d'Arbeloff.


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Boettgerilla compressa

Another known locality is the ruins of Bagrat Castle near Kutaisi in Georgia.

Catholicate of Abkhazia

At various periods of its existence, the Catholicate of Abkhazia was subdivided into several dioceses (eparchies), including those of Bichvinta, Kutaisi, Gelati, Tsageri, Tsaishi, Tsalenjikha, Chkondidi, Khoni, Ninotsminda, Nikortsminda, Shemokmedi, Jumati, Dranda, Bedia and Mokvi, centered on the respective cathedrals.

Guram Dolenjashvili

He mostly lived in Kutaisi but travel led to Russian North, White Sea, Kamchatka and Chukotka.

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia

Born into a petite noble family in Abasha in western Georgian province of Mingrelia, then under the Imperial Russian rule, Gamsakhurdia received early education at the Kutaisi gymnasium and then studied in St. Petersburg, where he quarreled with Nicholas Marr.

Sergo Kldiashvili

He attended the Kutaisi gymnasium which produced many of Georgia’s 20th-century intellectuals, and then studied law in Moscow.

Solomon I of Imereti

The Russians sent a small force under General Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben who helped Solomon to recover Kutaisi in August 1770, but the general's rudeness and condescension alienated the Georgians; Totleben was quickly recalled from Georgia, but his successor failed to take the Ottoman-held Georgian port of Poti on the Black Sea.


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