For Khoni the circle-drawer, see Honi HaM'agel

Honi HaM'agel

Honi Ha-Ma'agel , was a Jewish scholar prior to the age of the tannaim, the scholars from whose teachings the Mishnah was derived....

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Khoni is a town in the Western Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 region (mkhare

Mkhare

Mkhare is a subdivision in the country of Georgia. It is usually translated as region.The country is divided, according to the Presidential decrees from 1994 to 1996, into regions on a provisional basis until the secessionist conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia are resolved...

) of Imereti

Imereti

Imereti is a province in Georgia situated along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni river. It consists of the following Georgian administrative-territorial units:#Kutaisi #Baghdati region#Vani region#Zestafoni region...

 with the population of 11,300 (2002 Georgia census). It is situated on the left bank of the Tskhenistkali River in the north-west of Imereti, close to the border with the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti

Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti

Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti is a region in western Georgia which includes the historical Georgian provinces of Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti and has Zugdidi as its capital.-Geography:...

 and 266 km west of Georgia's capital Tbilisi

Tbilisi

Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...

. The town serves as an administrative centre of the Khoni District. Its economy is based on agriculture, particularly tea production.

Khoni has been known as a lively trading locale and a sea of the Georgian Orthodox diocese

Eparchies of the Georgian Orthodox Church

, the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church is subdivided into thirty-five eparchies:, the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church is subdivided into thirty-five eparchies:...

 since the Middle Ages. The town itself was founded in the 6th or 9th century and the still functioning St. George's Cathedral in downtown Khoni was constructed between the 11th and 13th centuries. It acquired the status of a town in 1921. Under the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

, it was named after the Marxist revolutionary Alexander Tsulukidze

Alexander Tsulukidze

Alexander "Sasha" Tsulukidze was a Georgian social-democratic revolutionary and journalist.Born in Khoni, western Georgia , Sasha came from a prominent princely family. His father belonged to the old Imeretian noble house of Tsulukidze and his mother to that of Shervashidze...

 in 1936, but the historical name of Khoni was restored in 1991.

Notable people from Khoni

• Tamar Abakelia
  Tamar Abakelia
  Tamar Abakelia was a Georgian sculptress, theater designer and illustrator. She was granted the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1942.- Family :...
  
   (1905-1953), Georgian sculptress
• Irakli Abashidze
  Irakli Abashidze
  Irakli Abashidze was a Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician.Born in Khoni, Georgia , he graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1931 and attended the 1st Congress of the USSR Union of Writers, 1934, when socialist realism was laid down as the cultural orthodoxy...
  
  (1909-1992), Georgian poet and public figure