Tsageri
Tsageri
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Tsageri (Georgian: ცაგერი, Cageri) is a town in Georgia, located in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region in the west of the country and serving as an administrative center of the homonymous district.
Tsageri is located at 475 m above sea level, on the right bank of the
History
In medieval Georgia, Tsageri was an episcopal see, with a cathedral described by the early 18th-century geographer
Under the
Culture and religion
There is the residence of the
In the vicinity of Tsageri, there are the ruins of the medieval fortress of Muris-Tsikhe which might have been the place of exile and death of the Christian theologian Maximus the Confessor (c. 580 – 662). There still exits a monastery dedicated to St. Maximus.[4] The nearby located Khvamli caves, according to the medieval records, preserves the treasury of the kings of Georgia. It has been listed among the national monuments of Georgia and has recently attracted a renewed interest from scholars.[5]
References
- ^ "Population Census 2014". www.geostat.ge. National Statistics Office of Georgia. November 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- Allen, W.E.D.(1950). "Two Georgian Maps of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century". Imago Mundi, Vol. 10: 99-121.
- ^ Georgian Museums: Tsageri Local Museum[permanent dead link]. Ministry of Culture, Monuments Protection and Sport of Georgia. Retrieved on 2008-07-26.
- ISBN 0-8091-2659-1.
- ^ (in Georgian) TBC ბანკმა, კომპანია ‘ბორჯომმა’ და ‘ელიტ ელექტრონიკსმა’ ‘ხვამლის’ გადაღება დააფინანსეს ("TBC Bank, Borjomi and Elite Electronics sponsored the film "Khvamli"). The 24 Hours, cited at News.ge. 2008-04-20.