Mukhrovani

Mukhrovani
Mukhrovani Location of Mukhrovani in Georgia
Coordinates: 41°47′0″N 45°9′0″E / 41.783333°N 45.15°E / 41.783333; 45.15Coordinates: 41°47′0″N 45°9′0″E / 41.783333°N 45.15°E / 41.783333; 45.15
Country	Georgia
Time zone	Georgian Time (UTC+4)

Mukhrovani (Georgian: მუხროვანი) is a village in Kakheti, Georgia, within which is a military base involved in the 2009 Georgian troop mutiny and an earlier mutiny by 60 soldiers on December 20, 2004.^[1] It lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the capital Tbilisi,^[2] and has held up to members the Special Units of the Ministry of State Security for Georgia, as well as an airborne brigade of 1,000 troops and a tank unit of the Georgian army.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ Wheatley, p. 202.
2. ^ "MoD Says Military Unit Mutinies" (in English). Civil.Ge. http://civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=20848. Retrieved 2009-05-05. 
3. ^ Belkin, p. 106.

References

• A. Belkin, United We Stand?, SUNY Press. (New York, 2005)
• J. Wheatley, Georgia from national aawakening to Rose Revolution, Asgate Publishing, Ltd. (London, 2005)