Tamarasheni
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Tamarasheni (Georgian: თამარაშენი) is a village in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, some 0.5 km north of Tskhinvali, capital of the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.
The village is situated in the Great Liakhvi River valley. Tradition holds it that the modern-day village was founded by the medieval queen Tamar of Georgia (1284-1212) as a small town. Hence, the settlement’s name, literally meaning "built by Tamar". It was formerly part of the late medieval Georgian princedom of Samachablo (literally, "the estate of the Machabeli [family]") and then of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast (abolished in 1990). Populated mostly by ethnic Georgians, the village lies within the ongoing Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, and remains under the Government of Georgia’s control.
Tamarasheni is a home to the Museum of the 19th-century Georgian writer and Shakespeare translator Ivane Machabeli who was born there in 1854. The museum was severely damaged, on July 23, 1997, in a blast allegedly organized by local Ossetian nationalists.[1]
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- ^ Georgian Monument Blown up in South Ossetia, The Jamestown Foundation Monitor, Volume 3, Issue 145 (July 25, 1997).
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