Martvili

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The Martvili monastery.
The Martvili monastery.

Martvili is a small town in Samegrelo province of Western Georgia. Its monastery was Samegrelo's clerical centre in the Middle Ages. Under Soviet rule, from 1936 to 1990, it was named Gegechkori after the Old Bolshevik Sasha Gegechkori.

Coordinates: 42°25′N, 42°22′E