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See also: district in See also: Russian See also: Transcaucasia, extends from the See also: left See also: bank of the See also: river Tskheniz-Tskhali to the Suram range, which separates it from See also: Georgia on the See also: east, and is bounded on the See also: south by Akhaltsikh, and thus corresponds roughly to the eastern See also: part of the See also: modern See also: government of See also: Kutais
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Anciently a part of See also: Colchis, and included in Lazia during the See also: Roman See also: empire, See also: Imeretia was nominally under the dominion of the See also: Greek emperors
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In the early part of the 6th century it became the theatre of See also: wars between the See also: Byzantine emperor Justinian and See also: Chosroes, or Khosrau, See also: king of
See also: Persia
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Between 750 and 985 it was ruled by a dynasty (Apkhaz) of native princes, but was devastated by hostile incursions, reviving only after it became See also: united to Georgia
.
It flourished until the reign of See also: Queen Thamar, but after her See also: death (1212) the country became impoverished through strife and See also: internal dissensions
.
It was reunited with Georgia from 1318 to 1346, and again in 1424
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But the union only lasted See also: forty-five years; from 1469 until 18ro it was governed by a Bagratid dynasty, closely akin to that which ruled over Georgia
.
In 1621 it made the earliest See also: appeal to See also: Russia for aid; in 1650 it acknowledged Russian See also: suzerainty and in 1769 a Russian force expelled the See also: Turks
.
In 1803 the monarch declared himself a vassal of Russia, and in 1810 the little See also: kingdom was definitively annexed to that empire
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