Vartsikhe
Sign in to saveVartsikhe ( ) is a village in the Baghdati Municipality, Imereti, Georgia. It is located in western part of the country, in the Imereti Lowlands, at the confluence of the Rioni and Khanitskali rivers, some 17 km northwest of the town of Baghdati. Its population as of the 2014 census was 1,559.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Vartsikhe
- Settlement.native_name
- ვარციხე
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- geo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Vartsikhe Church.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A 17th-century church in Vartsikhe
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Georgia#Georgia Imereti
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Vartsikhe
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Imereti
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- 24px Baghdati
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 1,559
- Settlement.timezone1
- Georgian Time (UTC+4)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- ვარციხე
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Located in
- Baghdati Municipality
- Official language
- Georgian
- Population
- 1559
- Elevation
- 80
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Location
- Imereti
- Image
- Vartsikhe Church.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vartsikhe
- native label
- ვარციხე
- inception
- 0400-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Rhodopolis
- Modern history
- Heritage
- Population
- Notes
- References
Vartsikhe ( ) is a village in the Baghdati Municipality, Imereti, Georgia. It is located in western part of the country, in the Imereti Lowlands, at the confluence of the Rioni and Khanitskali rivers, some 17 km northwest of the town of Baghdati. Its population as of the 2014 census was 1,559.
Vartsikhe, formerly Vardtsikhe, is the Rhodopolis of the Eastern Roman authors of Late Antiquity. Rhodopolis was one of the key towns in Lazica, contested between the Eastern Roman and Sasanian empires in the 6th century. From the late 15th century into the early 19th, Vardtsikhe functioned as one of the castles of the kings of Imereti.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vartsikhe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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