where is a city of kutaisi ?

Answer 1

One of the ancient regions of Georgia, Imereti, which constituted from the late 15th century. At the site where the Rioni emerges from the mountains into the plain stands the most ancient city
of the Kingdom of Colchis (6th-1st centuries B.C.), Kutaisi (its name is derived from "kuata" meaning "stony"). Probably, you know from Greek mythology the legend of Jason and the Argonauts and their travel to Colchis for Golden Fleece. There is a romantical love story of Medea , the daughter of Ayetes, king of Colchis, and Jason. Medea's story is told by Euripides in tragedy "Medea".

From the 10th centtury to 1112, when Tbilisi was liberated from foreign conquerors, Kutaisi
was the residence of Georgian kings, and in the 15th century it became the capital of the
Kingdom of Imereti.

Now Kutaisi has retained many features of a medieval town, but at the same time it is still a
modern city, economic, industrial and cultural centre of Western Gerogia . It has the second
largest population after Tbilisi - over 220,000). Town is connected to ther regions by railway
and Airport. Hydroelectric stations on the Rioni and its tributary , the Ladzhanura, as well as on
Inguri, form part of the Georgia's power system. Kutaisi's biggest industrial enterprise is the Car
Factory, which produces mainly specialized trucks for mountain roads.

The Imereti Road leads from Eastern to Western Georgia, past cosy villages scattered about the
picturesque slopes of the Surami Range, into the city of Kutaisi.

Above the city towers Mount Gabashvili.
From its summit there is a wonderful
panorama of Kutaisi: the red-tiled roofs
of the old houses amongst masses of

greenery, the slender arrows of the bridges and white buldings of new residental districts.




Kutaisi has a rich cultural life. In its central square stands the Meskhishvili
Drama Theatre. There is also a branch of Tbilis's Paliashvili Opera House, a department of Georgian Philarmony, a puppet theatre.

In Kutaisi's Gimnasium (classical school), which was built in 1840, studied
well-known and respected persons: poets Akaki Tsereteli, Titsian and Galaktion Tabidze, the
linguist Nikolai Marr, the famous psychologist Dmitry Uznadze, poet Vladimir Mayakovsky,
who was born and grew up in Georgia. Today the building houses a secondary school named
after Mayakovsky and bearing a memorial plague.

Despite his long history, Kutaisi is a young city and is continually growing. Sculptors and
architects adorn the city with monuments. On the road, leading to the bus station stands an
impressive Memorial to Glory which consists of three compositions: Mother's Grief, The Vines
Flower Again and The Messenger of Victory by Merab Berdzenishvili.





The most famous of Kutaisi's many splendid buildings is the majestic Church of King
Bagrat , which was built at the beginning of the 11th century. In the environs of

Answer 2

Kutaisi is Georgia's second largest city in the western province of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi, with a population of about 230,000 (1989).

Answer 3

Kutaisi (Georgian: ; ancient names: Aea/Aia, Kutatisi, Kutaïssi ) is Georgia's second largest city in the western province of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi, with a population of about 230,000 (1989).

Answer 4

Sounds Indian to me.

Answer 5

It is in the European country of Georgia.