Bakhtrioni

Bakhtrioni
ბახტრიონი
Akhmeta municipality, Kakheti, Georgia
Site information
ConditionRuined
Location
Bakhtrioni
Coordinates42°03′06″N 45°14′35″E / 42.051639°N 45.242917°E / 42.051639; 45.242917
Site history
Built1650s
Demolished1659

Bakhtrioni (Georgian: ბახტრიონი, bɑχtʼrɪɔnɪ) is a ruined 17th-century fortress in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, on the left bank of the Alazani river near its confluence with the Ilto. The fortress served as a Safavid Iranian outpost in the 1650s until the rebellious Georgians captured and demolished it. Only insignificant ruins of the Bakhtrioni fortress have survived.