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Every place in the atlas labelled cave cities.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Rock-cut
Georgian Golden Age (Bagrationi 1184–1213) · Georgian Orthodox (Queen Tamar, Shota Rustaveli era)
1185 Tamar's 13-level honeycomb with Church of Dormition fresco and 3.5 km aqueduct on Mtkvari gorge, Seljuk fortress.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Rock-cut
Iron Age to High Medieval (Kartli kingdom 300 BCE–1240 CE) · Kartli Iberian; pagan solar, then Christian Georgian (Bagrations), Zoroastrian? overlay
1000 BCE–13th c. Kartli city 150 caves on Mtkvari: sun temple, Tamar hall, qvevri wine, secret river channel.