Ruisi
Ruisi is a village in Kareli District of Shida Kartli region of the Republic of Georgia. Situated about 3 km from the district administrative center Kareli and 10 km from the city of Gori, Ruisi is one of the oldest centers of Christianity in Georgia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Urbnisi and Sasireti.
Urbnisi
Village
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Urbnisi is a village in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, in the district of Kareli. Situated on a high left bank of the Mtkvari river, it was an important city in ancient and early medieval Iberia as Georgia was known to the Greeks and Romans. Urbnisi is situated 3 km southeast of Ruisi.
Sasireti
Village
Sasireti is a village in Georgia, in the Kareli Municipality of Shida Kartli, within the Giganti community. It is located on the Shida Kartli Plain, at an elevation of 710 metres above sea level. The village is 10 kilometres away from Kareli. Sasireti is situated 4 km north of Ruisi.
Kareli
Town
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Kareli is a town in Shida Kartli, Georgia, located on the right bank of the Mtkvari, 94 km west of the country's capital of Tbilisi. Kareli became the district center in 1939, transformed into a township in 1962, declared a city in 1981. Kareli is situated 6 km west of Ruisi.
Ruisi
- Type: Village with 5,140 residents
- Description: village in Georgia, Kareli Municipality
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Shida Kartli, Georgia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
42.03398° or 42° 2′ 2″ northLongitude
43.96284° or 43° 57′ 46″ eastPopulation
5,140Elevation
665 metres (2,182 feet)Open location code
8HJ52XM7+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 288609376OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
612293Wikidata ID
Q12868442
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Ruisi” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ռուիսի (Քարելի շրջան)”
- Armenian: “Ռուիսի”
- Chechen: “Руиси”
- Georgian: “რუისი”
- Irish: “Ruisi”
- Ossetian: “Руиси”
- Persian: “رویسی”
- Polish: “Ruisi”
- Russian: “Руиси”
- Turkish: “Ruisi”
- Ukrainian: “Руісі”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ruisi”. Photo: Morray, CC BY 3.0.