Kulashi

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Kulashi კულაში
Town
Interactive map of Kulashi
Kulashi Location of Kulashi in Georgia Show map of Georgia Kulashi Location of Kulashi in Imereti Show map of Imereti
Coordinates: 42°12′15″N 42°20′44″E / 42.20417°N 42.34556°E / 42.20417; 42.34556
Country	Georgia
Mkhare	Imereti
District	Samtredia District
Population  (2014)
• Total	1,702
Time zone	UTC+4 (Georgian Time)
Climate	Cfa

Kulashi (Georgian: კულაში [kʼuɫäʃi]) is a small town (daba) in Imereti, Georgia with a population of around 1,702 as of 2014. It is located 5 km from the town of Samtredia. It first appears in the 16th century records as a fief of the Mikeladze family. It was granted the status of daba in 1961.

Kulashi had formerly been a home to one of the largest Georgian Jewish communities, whose size has significantly decreased due to several waves of Jewish expatriation to Israel. As such, it had sometimes been referred to as the "Jerusalem of Georgia". Among the prominent Jews who came from Kulashi are Chabad Rabbi Yehuda Butrushvili (known in Yiddish as Yudel Kulasher), Ephraim Gur and businessman Merab Elashvili [he].

See also

• Imereti

References

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