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New Athos

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New Athos
Афон Ҿыц, ახალი ათონი, Новый Афон
New Athos Monastery
New Athos Monastery
location of New Athos within Abkhazia
location of New Athos within Abkhazia
Country Abkhazia (Georgia)
District Gudauta
Population (1989)
 - Total 26,636
Time zone MSK (UTC+3)

New Athos (Abkhaz: Афон Ҿыц, Afon Tshyts, Georgian: ახალი ათონი, Akhali Atoni, Russian: Новый Афон, Novyy Afon) is a town in the Gudauta raion of Abkhazia, the breakaway republic of Georgia, situated some 22 km from Sukhumi by the shores of the Black Sea. The town was previously known under the names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, Psyrtskha. New Athos Cave is one of the tourist attractions of Abkhazia.

St. Simon the Canaanite church in the New Athos (VI-VIII cc.)
St. Simon the Canaanite church in the New Athos (VI-VIII cc.)

[edit] History

A large ancient port town of Anacopia was recorded there in the 3rd century. Its ruins are still visible. In the 5th century, Georgians [1] built a fortress on the top of the Iverian Mountain. Anacopia was the capital of the Abkhazian princedom in the orbit of the Byzantine Empire and then of the Abkhazian Kingdom after the Abkhazian archon Leon II declared himself a king in the late 8th century. Later, the capital was moved to Kutaisi.

Anacopia was ceded to Byzantine Empire by Demetre in 1033 but was retaken by Georgians in 1072 among the other territories Georgia gained as a result of the Empire's defeat at Manzikert at the hands of Seljuks.

[edit] Monastery

In 1874 Russian monks from the overcrowded Rossikon Monastery on Mount Athos arrived to the Caucasus in order to find a place for possible resettlement. They feared that the Ottoman Empire would oust the Russians from Athos after the outbreak of the impending Russo-Turkish War. They selected Psyrtskha, and the Neo-Byzantine New Athos Monastery, dedicated to St. Simon the Canaanite, was constructed there in the 1880s with funds provided by Tsar Alexander III of Russia. Eventually Russian monks were permitted to stay in the "old" Athos, and the New Athos monastery had much less occupancy than anticipated.

Psyrtskha railway station
Psyrtskha railway station

The scenic setting of the New Athos monastery by the sea has made it a popular destination with Russian tourists visiting Abkhazia.


[edit] References

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  1. ^ Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, by David Braund, p. 54

Coordinates: 43°05′30″N 40°48′00″E / 43.09167, 40.8


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