Khulo

Khulo

Khulo ( _ka. ხულო) is a townlet in Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 88 km east to the regional capital Batumi. The town and adjoining 77 villages form the mountainous Khulo District (Rayon). Area710 sq. km; population33,430 (2002).

The town, formerly known as Khula, was a merchant place located on a medieval road that linked Samtskhe-Javakheti to the Black Sea coast. Khulo's population, largely Islamized in the Ottoman era, diminished dramatically under the Russian oppression of Islam in the 1870s. 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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