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Urbnisi
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Urbnisi ( ) is a village in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, in the district of Kareli.

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Place details

Locality
ურბნისი
Region
შიდა ქართლი
Country
საქართველო
Population
0

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Urbnisi
Settlement.native_name
ურბნისი
Settlement.image_skyline
Urbnisi monastery. Entrance (Photo A. Muhranoff, 2011).jpg
Settlement.image_caption
Urbnisi monastery
Settlement.pushpin_map
Georgia (country)#Shida Kartli
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Georgia
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Region
Settlement.subdivision_name
25px Georgia
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Shida Kartli
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Kareli
Settlement.population_as_of
2014
Settlement.population_total
1109
Settlement.timezone
Georgian Time
Settlement.utc_offset
+4

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Official name
ურბნისი
Official language
Georgian
Population
1109
Elevation
640
Time zone
UTC+04:00
Official website
www.urbnis-ruisi.ge:
Image
Urbnisi monastery. Entrance (Photo A. Muhranoff, 2011).jpg
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Commons category
Urbnisi
native label
ურბნისი
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Encyclopedic overview

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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. It was the second most important city in the Iberian Kingdom after the capital Mtskheta.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Urbnisi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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