List of renamed cities in Georgia
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The following is the list of cities in Georgia
that underwent a name change in the past.
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...
that underwent a name change in the past.
- Aghbulakhi → Tetritsq'aroTetritsq'aroTetri Tsqaro is a town in Kvemo Kartli in southern Georgia, the name of which translates as "White Spring".- See also :*Gudarekhi...
(1940) - Baghdati → Maiakovski (1940) → BaghdatiBaghdatiBaghdati is a town of 4,800 people in the Imereti region of western Georgia, at the edge of the Ajameti forest on the Chanistskali River. From 1940 to 1990, it was called Mayakovsky after the Russian poet who was born there.-History:...
(1990) - Barmaksizi → TsalkaTsalka- Population :The district had a population of 22,000. According to the 2002 census 55% of its population is Armenian, 22% Greek, 12% Georgian, and 9.5% Azerbaijanis...
(1932) - Bashkicheti → DmanisiDmanisiDmanisi is a townlet and archaeological site in Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera.- History :...
(1947) - Altunkale → Bogdanovka (1829) → NinotsmindaNinotsmindaNinotsminda is a town and a rayon located in Georgia's southern district of Samtskhe-Javakheti. The rayon has a population of 34,305 according to 2002 Census. The Armenians number 32,856, Georgians 476 and Russians 943...
(1991) - Dioscurias → Savastapolis → Tskhumi → Sohumkale → SukhumiSukhumiSukhumi is the capital of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. The city suffered heavily during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in the early 1990s.-Naming:...
- Elisabethtal → Asureti (1943)
- Gegechkori → MartviliMartviliMartvili is a small town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti province of Western Georgia. Its monastery was Samegrelo's clerical centre in the Middle Ages...
(1990) - Jugeli → Zestafoni (1921)
- Karaiazi → GardabaniGardabaniGardabani is a town in the Georgian region of Kvemo Kartli, and the centre of the Garbabani district, located 39 km south of Georgia's capital Tbilisi.As of 2002, its population was 19,900 people. The town is roughly 70% Azeri-populated...
(1947) - Khashuri → Mikhailovo (1872) → Khashuri (1918) → Stalinisi (1931) → KhashuriKhashuriKhashuri is a town in central Georgia. It is located on the Mtkvari River.Khashuri is first mentioned in the 1693 document. Modern Khashuri was founded in 1872 as a modest railway halt called "Mikhaylovo" after Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Viceroy of the Caucasus. In 1917, it was...
(1934) - Chörük-Qamarli → Katarinenfeld (1817) → Lüksemburgi (1921) → BolnisiBolnisiBolnisi , is a city in the country of Georgia, located in the Kvemo Kartli region and capital of the Bolnisi district. Currently has an estimated 13,800 inhabitants....
(1943) - Kazbegi → StepantsmindaStepantsmindaStepantsminda , is a small town in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region of north-eastern Georgia. Historically and ethnographically, the town is part of the Khevi province...
(2006) - Leningori → AkhalgoriAkhalgoriAkhalgori or Leningor is a town in South Ossetia, partially recognized republic in the South Caucasus, formerly the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic...
(1991) - Makharadze → OzurgetiOzurgetiOzurgeti is a town and the regional administrative centre of Western Georgian province of Guria, former Macharadze or Makharadze . Population of Ozurgeti: 21,009...
(1990) - Orjonikidze → KharagauliKharagaulikharagauli is an administrative center of Kharagauli district in Georgia. It is situated on both banks of Chkherimela river in a narrow and deep gorge, 280-400m above the sea level....
(1990) - Sarvan → Borchalo (1929) → MarneuliMarneuliMarneuli is a small city in the Kvemo Kartli region of southern Georgia and administrative center of Marneuli District that borders neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia.-Population:...
(1947) - Senaki → Mikha-Tskhakaia (1935) → Tskhakaia (1976) → SenakiSenakiSenaki is a town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, western Georgia. It is located at around .From 1935 to 1976 it was called Tskhakaya in honor of the Georgian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Mikhail Tskhakaya....
(1989) - Shulavery → Shahumiani (1925) → Shulaveri (1991)
- Trialeti → Molotovo (1940) → TrialetiTrialetiTrialeti is a mountainous area in central Georgia. In Georgian its name means "a place of wandering". The Trialeti Range is a part of the greater Trialeti Region....
(1957) - Tsarskiye Kolodtsy → Tsiteli-Tskaro (1921) → Dedoplis TskaroDedoplis TskaroDedoplis Tskaro or Dedoplistsqaro is a town in Kakheti, Georgia with the population of 7,724 . The town is located in the Shiraki Lowlands, eastern Georgia, and functions as a municipality of the district of the same name....
(1991) - Tskhinvali → Staliniri (1934) → TskhinvaliTskhinvaliTskhinvali , is the capital of South Ossetia, a disputed region which has been recognised as an independent Republic by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Nauru, and is regarded by Georgia and the rest of the world as part of the Shida Kartli region within Georgian sovereign territory.It is located...
(1961) - Tsulukidze → KhoniKhoniKhoni is a town in the Western Georgian region of Imereti with the population of 11,300 . 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 and 266 km west of Georgia's capital Tbilisi. The town...
(1990)