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Khertvisi fortress – Middle age castle is located in the village Khertvisi, on the estuary of rivers Paravani and Mtkvari, on a tall rocky mountain (currently Aspindza municipal territory) in Javakheti, southern Georgia. Khertvisi was an active fortress during the feudal ages.

Since the 24th of October 2007, Khertvisi, is included in the UNESCO world heritage testing list.

Khertvisi is one of the most ancient fortresses in Georgia. Even though its construction date is unknown, there is a proven fact of its standing on the Great Silk Road. It is fantastic, but despite all millennia, it has survived in its original state. The mountain on which the fortress stands wonderfully combines history and the present. At the foot of the mountain, there stand tiny rural houses of residents; hundreds of meters above them, the impregnable wall of the fortress is towering.

Khertvisi has saved the entire perimeter of menacing battlements reinforced with massive quadrangular towers. The fortifications and towers look at the world with their eye-sockets of loopholes. From the eastern wall, two tunnels go down to the river; one was used for water delivery, and the other – as a communication system. The present condition of the fortress can be explained by the fact that in the 12th it practically revived and grew into a city. According to the legend, Georgian Queen Tamara announced the best fortress competition during that period.

Khertvisi was reconstructed several times, early middle age building layer is noticeable. The fortress consists of a citadel and a wall. Citadel stands on the narrow, rocky edge of the mountain. It is not approachable from the northeastern side. Water was supplied by a tunnel on the northwestern side.

In the 13th century, Khartsvisi was destroyed by Mongols and later captured by Turks. In the 19th century, these lands were taken by Russia, and the fortress was restored for the needs of the military garrison.

According to information from chronicler Leonti Mroveli, which is based on oral tradition, during the eastern conquest, in the ’20s of IV century BC, Alexander the Great, together with other fortified cities, visited Khertvisi as well (Historic science does not agree with the version of Alexander the Great campaigning in Georgia). Khertvisi was located on a critical pathway. Under its subordination were regions of the Mtkvari and Paravani rivers. During the XVI century, Khertvisi was under Kamkamidzes, Khertvisars, Amatakians, and Shalikashvili rule accordingly.

During Ottoman expansion in southern Georgia in 1578, Arfaksad, son of Iotham, and other fortresses in Javakheti forfeited Khertvisi to Ottomans. Later it was a center of the Ottoman administrative unit. In the 70s of the XVIII century, it was taken by king Erekle II during the Russian-Ottoman war (1828-1829). In 1828 fortress was liberated by the Russian army.

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