Dedoplistskaro or Dedoplistsqaro ( ka, დედოფლისწყარო, , literally: ''Queen's spring'') is a town in

Kakheti Kakheti ( ka, კახეთი ''K’akheti''; ) is a region (mkhare) formed in the 1990s in eastern Georgia from the historical province of Kakheti and the small, mountainous province of Tusheti. Telavi is its capital. The region comprises eigh ...

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with the population of 5,940. The town is located in the

Shiraki Plain The Shiraki ( ka, შირაქის ვაკე, ) is a plain on the Iori Plateau in Georgia (country), Georgia, an interfluve between the river valleys of the Iori (river), Iori in the south and the Alazani in the north; its steep slopes i ...

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, and functions as a municipality of the eponymous district.

History

The locale is first mentioned in the medieval annals as a military post established by King

David IV of Georgia David IV, also known as David the Builder ( ka, დავით აღმაშენებელი, ') (1073–1125), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the 5th king of United Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125. Popularly considered to be ...

( r. 1089–1125). Tradition relates its name, literally meaning "the Queen’s spring" to

Queen Tamar Tamar the Great ( ka, თამარ მეფე, tr, lit. "King Tamar") ( 1160 – 18 January 1213) reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age. A member of the Bagrationi dynasty ...

(r. 1184–1213). After the annexation of Georgia,

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established a military fort in 1803 to fend off the area being attacked by the

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rebels and renamed the village into Tsarskie Kolodtsy (russian: Царские Колодцы), that is "the royal wells". In 1869, the

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entrepreneurs

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and

Ernst Werner von Siemens Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; ; ; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He foun ...

established an

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near the village which functioned until the mid-1870s. The village retained its military installations and a large garrison during Georgia's brief independence from 1918 to 1921. It was seized by the invading

Soviet Russian The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

forces after hours of heavy fighting with Georgian troops on February 18, 1921. The Russian commander Pyotr Kuryshko died in this battle. Гражданская война и военная интервенция в СССР: Энциклопедия. / Гл. ред. С.С.Хромов; Ред. кол.: Н.Н.Азовцев, Е.Г.Гимпельсон, П.А.Голуб и др. – М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1987, С. 315. The

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government changed the name into Tsiteltskaro (წითელწყარო; "Red Spring") and granted the settlement a town's status in 1963. In 1991, the historical name of Dedoplis Tskaro was restored. Ruins of the medieval fortress of Khornabuji lie near the town. The Vashlovani State Reserve is also located within the Dedoplis Tskaro district.

References

Cities and towns in Kakheti Tiflis Governorate {{Georgia-geo-stub

History

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