 The area in turn gave its name to the Sultanate of Borchali that existed there from 1604 to 1755 with its capital in Aghjagala (a mediaeval fortress whose ruins nowadays lie near Kushchi, Marneuli Municipality), later turned into a mouravate (district) under the suzerainty of Georgia.Furthermore, up to 15,000 Turkic-speaking families had been resettled in Kakheti at the beginning of the seventeenth century by Abbas I of Persia following a series of punitive campaigns he had launched against his Georgian subject, Teimuraz I of Kakheti.However, those settlers were almost entirely annihilated less than a decade later in the course of an uprising in Kakheti.