Khulo (Georgian: ხულო [χulo]) is a townlet (daba) in Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 88 km east of the regional capital Batumi, in the upper valley of the Adjaristsqali River.
[1] The town, formerly known as Khula and Hulo, was a merchant place located on a medieval road that linked the neighboring region of Samtskhe-Javakheti to the Black Sea coast.
Cult monuments include the Thilvani Menhir, a simple megalith building/vertical column about 20 meters tall that archaeologists think was connected to a funeral ritual.
The site was built up in the Middle Ages, as evidenced by the many surviving churches, castles, and medieval arched bridges.
[2] In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire pursued an active policy of conquest in several regions of the world, including in what is now Georgia.
In April 1929, during Soviet rule, the Muslim villagers of mountainous Adjara rose in arms against compulsory collectivization and religious persecution.