Gudamaqari

Gudamaq'ari (Gudamakari;[1] Georgian: გუდამაყარი) is a small historical geographic area in northeast Georgia on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. Located along the river valley of Aragvi, it is bordered by Mtiuleti on the west, Khevi on the north, Khevsureti and Pshavi on the east, and Khando and Ch'artali communities on the south. Gudamaq'ari is sometimes viewed as a part of Mtiuleti. Modern administrative subdivision of Georgia places the area in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti mkhare (region).

Gudamaqari
გუდამაყარი
Gudamakari
Historical region
Gudamaqari is located in Mtskheta-Mtianeti
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Gudamaqari
Map highlighting the historical region of Gudamaqari
Gudamaqari is located in Georgia
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Gudamaqari
Gudamaqari (Georgia)
Coordinates: 42°26′16″N 44°45′00″E
An approximate geographical area.
Country Georgia
MkhareMtskheta-Mtianeti
CapitalTbilisi
Valley in Gudamaqari.
Bursachiri waterfall in the Gudamaqari canyon, reaching 2200 metres in altitude.

History

The inhabitants of Gudamaq’ari – Gudamaq’relebi (გუდამაყრელები) – are first chronicled by the 11th century Georgian historian Leonti Mroveli in connection with the conversion of Iberia/Kartli by St. Nino in the 330s.[2] A strategic road running through this area played an important role in medieval Georgia and was much later, under the Imperial Russian rule, connected to the Georgian Military Road.[3][4][5]

References
  1. Gudamakari Wikimapia
  2. Wardrop, Margery (2007 [1900]), Life of Saint Nino, page 52. Gorgias Press LLC, ISBN 1-59333-471-0
  3. Hearst Museum, Berkeley
  4. Shorena Kurtsikidze & Vakhtang Chikovani, Ethnography and Folklore of the Georgia-Chechnya Border: Images, Customs, Myths & Folk Tales of the Peripheries, Munich: Lincom Europa, 2008.
  5. Images from the Georgia-Chechnya Border, 1970-1980: Visual Anthropology of the Peripheries
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