Gorisa

Gorisa გორისა
Gorisa Location of Gorisa in Georgia
Coordinates: 42°16′43″N 43°26′14″E / 42.27861°N 43.43722°E / 42.27861; 43.43722
Country	Georgia
Mkhare	Imereti
District	Sachkhere
Elevation	820 m (2,690 ft)
Population  (2014)
• Total	1,087
Time zone	UTC+4 (Georgian Time)

Gorisa (Georgian: გორისა) is a village in the Sachkhere Municipality of Imereti in western Georgia. It is the birthplace of Giorgi Tsereteli, a Georgian writer of the 19th century, and his son, Irakli Tsereteli, a leading Georgian Menshevik.

References

• Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia Vol. 3, p. 226, 1978.