Pankisi Gorge
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Pankisi () or the Pankisi Gorge (, Pankisis Kheoba) is a valley region in Georgia, in the upper reaches of River Alazani. It lies just south of Georgia's historic region of Tusheti between Mt Borbalo and the ruined 17th-century fortress of Bakhtrioni.
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- Pankisi Gorge
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- Georgia#Georgia Kakheti
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- canyon
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Body of water
- Alazani
- Image
- Pankisi Gorge and Alazani Plain as seen from Tbatani.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pankisi Gorge
- mountain range
- Greater Caucasus
- vocalized name
- פַּנְקִיסִי
- ethnic group
- Kist
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Etymology
- Pankisi Gorge crisis and local links to Salafi-jidhadism
- Notable people
- Jihadists and North-Caucasian separatists
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Pankisi () or the Pankisi Gorge (, Pankisis Kheoba) is a valley region in Georgia, in the upper reaches of River Alazani. It lies just south of Georgia's historic region of Tusheti between Mt Borbalo and the ruined 17th-century fortress of Bakhtrioni.
Administratively, Pankisi is included in the Akhmeta municipality of the Kakheti region. The area is about two and half miles wide and eight miles long.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pankisi Gorge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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