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| image_caption      = Bridge over the Choloki blown up during the [[2004 Adjara crisis]].
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The '''Choloki'''<ref>[https://www.mindat.org/feature-615109.html Choloki, Ajaria, Georgia] [[Mindat.org]]</ref> ({{lang-ka|ჩოლოქი}}, also '''Cholok''') in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] forms the border between the autonomous province of [[Ajaria]] and the province of [[Guria]]. For a time in the 19th century it formed the border between [[Turkey]] and Imperial [[Russia]].

== History ==
During the [[Crimean War]] the Turks crossed it in 1853 and were driven back the following year during the [[Battle of Choloki]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Allen |first1=William Edward David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oDb6P0HXwIcC |title=Caucasian Battlefields: A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921 |last2=Muratoff |first2=Paul |date=2011-02-17 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-01335-2 |language=en}}</ref>

Another [[Battle of Choloki (1918)|military episode]] took place on April 16, 1918, when the Georgian National Guard under General-Lieutenant [[Giorgi Mazniashvili]] repelled a Turkish invasion force.

The bridge over Choloki river that was a main road link between Ajaria and the rest of Georgia was blown up on May 2, 2004, by the ousted leadership of the Autonomy. Ajarian leader [[Aslan Abashidze]] called the decision to blow up the bridges in the [[Kobuleti]] border region "a preventive measure against the possible attempt of military action by the central Georgian authorities."

== References ==
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{{Rivers of Georgia}}

[[Category:Crimean War]]
[[Category:Rivers of Georgia (country)]]
[[Category:Geography of Adjara]]
[[Category:Military history of Georgia (country)]]