ps under the command of General Paskevich captured the city and, as a consequence of the 1829 Treaty of Adrianople (Edirne), it was ceded to the Russian Empire as
part of first Kutaisi and then Tbilisi
governorates. In the old part of the city one
can see an old fortress, castle and mosque, the old fortress of the Jakelis
(13th-14th century), and
