Definitions

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  • A city of western Georgia west-northwest of Tbilisi. The capital first of ancient Colchis and later of a medieval Georgian kingdom, Kutaisi was integrated into the Russian Empire after 1810.

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  • proper noun Second largest city of Georgia, capital of Imereti province located on Rioni river. One of the oldest cities of Transcaucasia it has been a captial of many kingdoms, including Colchis and Abkhazia. Population: 185,965.

Etymologies

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From Georgian ქუთაისი (K’ut’aisi).

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Examples

  • Years later, after they were both released, they met in Kutaisi, where the fellow insisted that my friend come to Batumi and meet his family.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • Years later, after they were both released, they met in Kutaisi, where the fellow insisted that my friend come to Batumi and meet his family.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • Zaur Alborov, an independent military observer told Utro. ru that a group of Ukrainian and Baltic mercenaries had been formed in Kutaisi.

    welcome to the global gleiwitz 2008

  • Zaur Alborov, an independent military observer told Utro. ru that a group of Ukrainian and Baltic mercenaries had been formed in Kutaisi.

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  • MOSCOW — There were no reports of hostilities in the eastern part of Georgia on Friday, but Georgian troops in the western city of Kutaisi, some 50 miles from the Black Sea coast, said they were bracing as a Russian armored patrol advanced from the west.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Russia unveiled a stunning new memorial dedicated to Soviet troops who fought in World War II in Moscow, just one year after a similar monument was destroyed in the Georgian town of Kutaisi, Russia Today is reporting.

    Russia Rebuilds Memorial That Was Destroyed By Georgians Curtis M. Wong 2010

  • Two people died in December when authorities blew up a Soviet war memorial in Georgia's second city of Kutaisi.

    Georgia Dismantles Stalin Monument 2010

  • Putin, Burjanadze, and Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov also laid the foundation stone for a war memorial in Moscow identical to one in the Georgian city of Kutaisi that was demolished by Saakashvili last year.

    Russian Payback 2010

  • Another free industrial zone in Kutaisi in western Georgia is already up and running, with Egyptian household goods manufacturer, Fresh, assembling gas cookers and water heaters there for export to Azerbaijan and Armenia.

    Georgia Port Gets Emirate Investment 2010

  • THE COLUMN OF TANKS and trucks lumbered from the Russian Black Sea military base toward the Georgian city of Kutaisi.

    Big Guns, But No Idea Where To Shoot 2008

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