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Beautiful cave In Uplistsikhe cave town in Gori, Georgia. #235071507
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Uplistsikhe Cave Town-Fortress is situated on a rocky massif in 15 km eastwards to town Gori on the left bank of the river Mtkvari. The fortress is mentioned in chronicles from earliest times. Its history begins in the I-II millennium B.C. Uplistsikhe was an important religious, political and cultural centre in the Hellenistic and the late Antique periods IV c. B.C. - IV c. A.D.. The town was in its heyday as far back as the 9th - 11th centuries. In 13th century, it was ravaged by Mongols.