Kareli, Georgia

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Kareli ქარელი
name_local = ქარელი


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map_caption = Location of Kareli in Georgia
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = GEO
subdivision_type1 = Mkhare
subdivision_name1 = Shida Kartli
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population_as_of = 2007
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population_total = 7,200
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utc_offset = +4
timezone_DST = GMT
utc_offset_DST = +5
latd=42 |latm=01 |lats=28 |latNS=N
longd=43 |longm=54 |longs=4 |longEW=E
elevation_m = 620
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Kareli ( _ka. ქარელი) is a town in Shida Kartli, Georgia, located on the right bank of the Mtkvari (Kura), 94 km west of the nation’s capital of Tbilisi.

Kareli is first mentioned as a village in the 1715 documents. It was a property of the Tsitsishvili noble family. It acquired the status of a town under the Soviet government in 1981. Since 1939, it has been an administrative center of the homonymous district. As of the 2002 census, Kareli had a population of approximately 7,200. [ka icon [http://www.government.gov.ge/docs/regions/shida_qartli.pdf Shida Kartli: Passport] . Government of Georgia. Retrieved on 2008-07-30.]

Kareli has a humid subtropical climate with moderately cold winters and long warm summers. The town’s environs are a home to several architectural monuments of medieval Georgia such as the churches of Zghuderi, Samtsevrisi, Ruisi, and Kintsvisi, and the fortress of Ortubani (Dzama).

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