Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Kutaisi is Georgia's second city (Imereti region of Western Georgia), with a population in 1989 of about 230,000. Old name of this city is "Kutatisi". It was the capital of the ancient state of Colchis. In 975-1122 Kutaisi was the capital of the united Georgian Kingdom, in XV-XIX centuries - the capital of Imeretian Kingdom. In 1810 the Imeretian Kingdom was occupied by the Tsarist Russia. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.