Hereti

Hereti was a historic country of eastern Georgia, extending across the Alazani valley and towards the foothills of the Greater Caucasus. Once a kingdom in its own right, it was joined to Kakheti and later incorporated into the united Georgian realm. Its fortresses and churches marked a frontier between the Georgian lands and the neighbouring peoples of the eastern Caucasus.

Timur's expeditions devastated Hereti along with other Georgian regions at the end of the fourteenth century, bringing destruction to settlements across the eastern kingdom. By the fifteenth century the older name increasingly gave way to Kakheti, whose kings ruled the area. The Alazani valley remained a fertile landscape of settlements and cultivation beneath the mountains, although war and changing political authority repeatedly disturbed its communities.