city of Gori

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city municipality center

The city of Gori is a historic urban center in eastern Georgia, known as the birthplace of Joseph Stalin and for its strategic location at the confluence of major transit routes.

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instanceOf city →
municipality center →
atConfluenceOf Mtkvari River and Liakhvi River →
birthplaceOf Ioseb Jughashvili →
Joseph Stalin →
climate humid subtropical climate →
controlledBy Government of Georgia →
country Georgia →
distanceFrom Tbilisi →
dominantReligion Eastern Orthodox Christianity →
elevation approximately 588 meters above sea level →
governedBy Gori City Assembly →
hasEconomicActivity agriculture →
food processing →
light industry →
hasEducationalInstitution Gori State Teaching University →
hasFortress Gori Fortress →
hasHistoricRole regional military stronghold →
trade center in Kartli →
hasLandmark Gori Fortress →
Stalin Museum →
Stalin statue site →
hasMuseum Stalin Museum →
hasPopulation over 40,000 inhabitants →
hasPostalCodePrefix 14xx (Gori area) →
hasRailConnectionTo Tbilisi →
hasReligiousBuilding Orthodox churches →
hasRoadConnectionTo Tbilisi →
hasTransportFunction highway junction →
railway junction →
historicalRegion Kartli →
isAdministrativeCenterOf Gori Municipality →
isRegionalCenterOf Shida Kartli region →
languageOfficial Georgian →
locatedIn Shida Kartli →
eastern Georgia →
locatedOnRiver Liakhvi River →
Mtkvari River →
locatedWestOf Tbilisi →
nearConflictZone South Ossetia →
partOf South Caucasus →
strategicImportance major transit routes junction →
military significance →
timeZone Georgia Standard Time →
utcOffset +4 →
wasBombedDuring Russo-Georgian War of 2008 →
wasOccupiedDuring Russo-Georgian War of 2008 →
writingSystemUsed Georgian script →
Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Dila Gori ("Gori, Georgia") →
basedIn
Stalin Museum ("Stalin’s childhood neighborhood in Gori") →
locatedNear
Gori Fortress →
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