- Khulo
Khulo ( _ka. ხულო) is a townlet in
Adjara , anautonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 88 km east to the regional capitalBatumi . The town and adjoining 77 villages form the mountainous Khulo District (Rayon ). Area – 710 sq. km; population – 33,430 (2002 ).The town, formerly known as Khula, was a merchant place located on a medieval road that linked
Samtskhe-Javakheti to theBlack Sea coast. Khulo's population, largely Islamized in the Ottoman era, diminished dramatically under the Russian oppression ofIslam in the1870 s. A series of floods and avalanches in the 1990s-2000s induced another wave of migration from the mountainous villages of the rayon.In the district are medieval historical monuments -
Khikhani Fortress (10th century ) and the Church of Skhalta (13th century ).
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