12 Facts About Guria

Guria is a region in Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea.

Guria is bordered by Samegrelo to the north-west, Imereti to the north, Samtskhe-Javakheti to the east, Ajaria to the south, and the Black Sea to the west.

Guria is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude.

Territory that is Guria was part of the kingdom of Colchis, best known in the West for the tale of the Golden Fleece.

Toponym "Guria" is first attested in the c 800 Georgian chronicle of Pseudo-Juansher.

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Guria first appears c 1352 as a fief of the house of Vardanidze-Dadiani; and after 1463 it became a sovereign principality independent of the Kingdom of Georgia under a branch of that house, known thereafter by the name of Gurieli.

In 1840, Guria was made a county and renamed Ozurgeti, after one of its main towns.

Guria was a scene of guerrilla resistance to the militarily imposed Soviet rule early in the 1920s.

Under the Soviet government, Guria was an agrarian area divided into three administrative districts.

In 1995, the Georgian government decreed the creation of the region of Guria, restoring the province's historical name to official usage.

Some say that the root of the word [Guria] refers to restlessness and the word should mean “the land of the restless” and is associated with events during the eighth and ninth centuries when “Leon became the King of Abkhazeti.

Guria is one of the largest tea growing regions in Georgia.