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Shavsheti
Shavsheti is a historic region of south-western Georgia, today the Şavşat district of Artvin Province in north-eastern Turkey. In the 9th and 10th centuries it was one of the lands of Tao-Klarjeti ruled by branches of the Bagratid dynasty, and it remained part of Georgia until the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century.
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