{{Infobox settlement | name = Zemo Kartli | native_name = ზემო ქართლი | other_name = | settlement_type = [[Region|Historical Region]] | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_map = Lisle, Guillaume de.1742. Carte des Pays voisins de la Mer Caspiene, dressee pour l'usage du Roy (E).jpg | mapsize = | map_alt = | map_caption = Haute Georgie (Upper Georgia) | image_map1 = | mapsize1 = | map_alt1 = | map_caption1 = | coordinates = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Georgia}} | subdivision_type1 = | subdivision_name1 = [[Samtskhe-Javakheti]]<br/>[[Tao-Klarjeti]] | seat = | seat_type = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | area_total_km2 = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = | parts_type = | parts_style = | parts = | p1 = | iso_code = }} '''Zemo Kartli''' ({{lang-ka|ზემო ქართლი}}; [[Literal translation|lit.]] '''Upper Kartli''' or '''Upper [[Kingdom of Iberia|Iberia]]''') is a historical region in south-western [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], comprising the lands in the upper basin of the [[Kura (Caspian Sea)|Kura River]] (from origins of Kura River to Tashiskari) and [[Çoruh River|Chorokhi River]] basin, making it subregion of greater [[Kartli]]. Until 16th century, Zemo Kartli included: [[Meskheti|Samtskhe]], [[Javakheti]], [[Erusheti]], [[Artaani]], [[Kola (historical region)|Kola]], [[Klarjeti]], [[Shavsheti]], [[Tao (historical region)|Tao]] and [[Speri (region)|Speri]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Caucasus in georgian sources: Foreign States, Tribes, Historical Figures. Encyclopedical Dictionary|last1=Koridze|first1=Tamar|date=2012|publisher=Favorite|isbn=978-9941-0-3946-1|page=386}}</ref>

== Literature == * {{in lang|ka}} [[Ivane Javakhishvili|Javakhishvili, Ivane]] (1968), ''k'art'veli eris istoria'' (''The History of the Georgian Nation''), vol. 2. [[Tbilisi State University]] Press. * [[David Muskhelishvili|Muskhelishvili, David]] (1979), ''[[Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia]]'', vol. 4, pp.&nbsp;511. Tbilisi.

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{{Georgian historical regions}}

[[Category:Former provinces of Georgia (country)]] [[Category:Historical regions of Georgia (country)]] [[Category:Kartli]]