:For the village in Azerbaijan, see Şəlvə, Lachin.
Shalva Natelashvili | Shalva Nutsubidze |
In the 12th–13th centuries it was the seat of the Akhaltsikhelis, dukes of Samtskhe, whose two most illustrious representatives were Shalva and Ivane Akhaltsikheli (of Akhaltsikhe).