Skande

Skande is a fortress site in the hills of eastern Imereti, above the routes leading towards the Kvirila valley. Byzantine writers described Skanda as a stronghold of Lazica during the sixth-century wars between the Eastern Roman and Sasanian empires. It regained importance as the kingdom of Imereti emerged in the fifteenth century, and became a contested fortress during the struggles among western Georgian rulers and nobles in the following centuries.