Mukhrovani

Mukhrovani
Mukhrovani
Location of Mukhrovani in Georgia
Coordinates: 41°47′0″N 45°9′0″E / 41.78333°N 45.15000°E / 41.78333; 45.15000Coordinates: 41°47′0″N 45°9′0″E / 41.78333°N 45.15000°E / 41.78333; 45.15000
Country  Georgia
Time zone UTC+4 (Georgian Time)

Mukhrovani (Georgian: მუხროვანი) is a village in Kakheti, Georgia, within which is a military base involved in the 2009 Georgian troop mutiny and an earlier mutiny by 60 soldiers on December 20, 2004.[1] It lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the capital Tbilisi,[2] and has held up to members the Special Units of the Ministry of State Security for Georgia, as well as an airborne brigade of 1,000 troops and a tank unit of the Georgian army.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Wheatley, p. 202.
  2. ↑ "MoD Says Military Unit Mutinies". Civil.Ge. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  3. ↑ Belkin, p. 106.

References

  • A. Belkin, United We Stand?, SUNY Press. (New York, 2005)
  • J. Wheatley, Georgia from national aawakening to Rose Revolution, Asgate Publishing, Ltd. (London, 2005)
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