Kutaisi Governorate (geo)

Kutaisi Governorate

Kutaisi Governorate ranks 3,736th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Saint-Affrique, Settignano, and Saint-Chamond, Loire. Memorable people born in Kutaisi Governorate include Mikheil Gelovani, Filipp Makharadze, and Meliton Balanchivadze. Kutaisi Governorate has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors. Kutaisi Governorate is located in Georgia.

The Kutaisi or Kutais Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It roughly corresponded to most of western Georgia throughout most of its existence, and most of the Artvin Province of Turkey between 1878 and 1903. Created out of part of the former Georgia-Imeretia Governorate in 1846, the governorate also included Akhaltsikhe uezd before its cession to the Tiflis Governorate in 1867. The Kutaisi Governorate bordered the Sukhumi Okrug to the northwest, the Kuban Oblast to the north, the Terek Oblast to the northeast, the Tiflis Governorate to the southeast, the Batum Oblast to the southwest, and the Black Sea to the west. The governorate was eponymously named for its administrative center, Kutais. Read more on Wikipedia