Ghoresha
Ghoresha is a village in the Kharagauli district of Imereti region in western Georgia. It is known for being the birthplace of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, a leading Bolshevik and close ally of Joseph Stalin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ubisa and Borit’i.
Ubisa
Village
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Ubisa is a small village and a medieval monastic complex in Georgia, particularly in the region Imereti, some 25 km from the town Kharagauli. The monastic complex of Ubisi comprises a 9th-century St. Ubisa is situated 4½ km northwest of Ghoresha.
Borit’i
Village
Photo: Jaba1977, Public domain.
Boriti is a village in the Kharagauli Municipality of Imereti in western Georgia. It lies on the river Dzirula. It is also the location of the death of a famous Georgian dissident and patriot Merab Kostava, where he died in 1989 due to a car crash. Borit’i is situated 5 km north of Ghoresha.
Kharagauli
Town
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Kharagauli is an administrative center of Kharagauli district in Georgia. It is situated on both banks of Chkherimela river in a narrow and deep gorge, 280-400m above the sea level. Kharagauli is situated 8 km southwest of Ghoresha.
Ghoresha
- Type: Village with 767 residents
- Description: village in Georgia
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Imereti, Georgia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
42.07088° or 42° 4′ 15″ northLongitude
43.26691° or 43° 16′ 1″ eastPopulation
767Elevation
455 metres (1,493 feet)Open location code
8HJ537C8+9QOpenStreetMap ID
node 540155256OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
614461Wikidata ID
Q16377582
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Ghoresha” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ղորեշա”
- Azerbaijani: “Qareşa”
- Bashkir: “Хореша”
- Basque: “Ghoresha”
- Belarusian: “Гарэша”
- Chechen: “Гореша”
- Georgian: “ღორეშა”
- Hebrew: “ר’ורשה”
- Irish: “Ghoresha”
- Italian: “Ghoresha”
- Mingrelian: “ღორეშა”
- Ossetian: “Гореша”
- Ossetian: “Гъореша”
- Persian: “قورشا”
- Polish: “Ghoresza”
- Russian: “Гореша”
- Slovenian: “Goreša”
- Spanish: “Goresha”
- Tajik: “Гореша”
- Turkish: “Goreşa”
- Ukrainian: “Дореша”
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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 “Ghoresha”. Photo: Gaga.vaa, CC BY-SA 4.0.