Outer Kakheti and our small town Sagarejo have a rather complicated historical past. If we look at the historical sources, the northern part of present-day outer Kakheti, the left side of the Iori River, was called Kukhet in ancient times from the early Middle Ages, while the southern part, the right side of the Iori, was called Gareja, or Ivri. In historical sources it is known as Kukheti.
The name of our city comes from ancient times, Sagarejo or "Tval-Sagarejo", "Tuali", which was named because of its location, picturesque nature and natural springs.
The villages inhabited here in Gareji were repeatedly invaded by the enemy and he was uprooted. The Sagarejo area is known for its 502 Ujarma War, the Mongol invasion of 1263-65, the fifth expedition of Temur-Leng in 1399, and the crushing invasions of Shah Abbas's troops in 1614-16. The last major war on the territory of Sagarejo took place on November 7, 1800, when a Russian-Georgian army destroyed Omar Khan's 20,000-strong cavalry.
During the invasion of 1616, Kakheti lost two thirds of its population. Up to 150,000 captives were taken by the invaders and exiled to the inner provinces of Iran in Fereydun and Mizandara. Of their descendants, only the people of Fereidan preserved the Georgian language.
The whole of Gare-Kakheti was settled by the Persians with the Turkmen-Tatars, who pursued only nomadic cattle. They lived on this land on both sides of the Iori River and in the Gareji fields, but Bidzina Cholokashvili, the governor of Sagarejo-Gare-Kakheti, with the help of Shalva and Elizbar of the Ksani nobility, organized a fierce uprising in Kakheti in 1659, during which the people
During the reign of Erekle II, many things were built in Sagarejo. The king appointed representatives of the feudal family as the guardians of Sagarejo.
It turns out that the first such case was reported in our city in the 18th century, it was the famous French traveler Guldestend, here is what he writes about Sagarejo: With a large amount of iori extracted from channel water. We also learn from his records that the Sagarejo fence was fenced and about 500 indigenous families lived outside the fence.
In the city of Sagarejo, the so-called Located in the "Armenian Quarter", a fairly large castle fence, it is not so ruined that it is impossible to fully imagine its appearance. The area of the castle was occupied by the population until the nineteenth century, and its stone was used for construction.
Documentary historical sources about the fortress do not contain any information, except for the stone with the inscription on the arch of the fortress gate, which Nikoloz Afriamov used to build his house.
In 1886, the newspaper Iveria published an article by Alexander Tskhvedadze, a primary school teacher in Sagarejo, in which he wrote: This castle has towers in every corner, it also has towers.
Alexander Tskhvedadze also managed to read the inscription on the stone.
"This fortress is me" ... then the word is deleted and it is written that you are inside, please forgive me, Sargis ... Koronikon Umv ... "This Koronikon must be of the 4th turn, which means that the castle must have been built in 1758.
A long time passed from this description, almost all the inscriptions were erased, some of the wall and the fragment of the tower were destroyed, as for the inscribed stone it disappeared without a trace.
The plan of the castle-fence is close to the square and its area should have been one hectare, the castle was also a church with a fence, but its traces have been erased.
Perhaps it would be logical if after this news you are offered another famous person, namely the trip of the Russian Emperor Alexander III to Kakheti.
In 1889, the Russian Emperor Alexander III traveled to Kakheti, accompanied by Miss Amala A. Dondukov-Korskov and Gulbaat Chavchavadze, Marshal of the Aznavours of Kakheti.
It is known that the emperor met with Zurab Makantalashvili, the father of Sagarejo, near the village of Sartichala.
The peasant reform that took place in the 60s of the XIX century brought a kind of novelty and revival to Sagarejo. Feudal rule of land use was abolished in Sagarejo and nearby villages. The monastic estates in Sagarejo were confiscated from the monasteries and handed over to the treasury. Large parts of these lands were bought by wealthy local peasants, Siraj traders from Tbilisi and others.
Until 1917, the territory of the present-day Sagarejo district was part of the Tbilisi Mazra of the Tbilisi Province. In the first year of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, a local municipal center was established in the village of Sagarejo, uniting the government of the villages of Sagarejo, Giorgitsminda and Ninotsminda. 1921 Admin of Georgia.
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