{"id":2504,"date":"2023-09-11T01:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T21:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingrent.ge\/?post_type=destinations&#038;p=2504"},"modified":"2023-09-11T01:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T21:51:46","slug":"qutaisi","status":"publish","type":"destinations","link":"https:\/\/kingrent.ge\/destinations\/qutaisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Qutaisi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kutaisi<\/strong>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/ku\u02d0\u02c8ta\u026asi\u02d0\/<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kutaisi#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgian_language\">Georgian<\/a>:&nbsp;\u10e5\u10e3\u10d7\u10d0\u10d8\u10e1\u10d8&nbsp;<small><\/small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/Georgian\">[k\u02b0ut\u02b0aisi]<\/a>) is one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities\">oldest continuously inhabited cities<\/a>&nbsp;in the world and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Georgia_(country)\">third-most populous<\/a>&nbsp;city in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(country)\">Georgia<\/a>&nbsp;after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tbilisi\">Tbilisi<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batumi\">Batumi<\/a>. Situated 221 kilometres (137 miles) west of Tbilisi, on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rioni_River\">Rioni River<\/a>, it is the capital of the western region of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imereti\">Imereti<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historically one of the major cities of Georgia, it served as political center of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colchis\">Colchis<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Ages\">Middle Ages<\/a>&nbsp;as capital of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Abkhazia\">Kingdom of Abkhazia<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kutaisi#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Georgia\">Kingdom of Georgia<\/a>&nbsp;and later as the capital of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Imereti\">Kingdom of Imereti<\/a>. From October 2012 to December 2018, Kutaisi was the seat of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parliament_of_Georgia\">Parliament of Georgia<\/a>&nbsp;as an effort to decentralise the Georgian government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2505,"parent":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingrent.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations\/2504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingrent.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingrent.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/destinations"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingrent.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingrent.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}