Lykhny
Lykhny
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Lykhny (Georgian: ლიხნი, Abkhaz and Russian: Лыхны) is a village in the Gudauta District of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast.
History
In medieval Georgian sources the village is also known as Zupu (ზუფუ).Khipsta River.
Shervashidze
princesLykhnashta, a large square located centrally in the village, is one of the
seven shrines of the Abkhaz people and the place where is held the harvest festival every October. The square was also the place of the gathering of all the Abkhaz in 1931 and 1989.[3]
Abkhaz Communist revolutionary Nestor Lakoba was born in Lykhny in 1893.
See also
- Shervashidze’s Palace
References
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- Russian-occupied territory.
- ^ The Georgian Chronicles, v. 4, p. 784
- ^ Shervashidze, L. Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia. 1983. Book 6. p. 271.
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