Adysh

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Adishi Georgian: ადიში
Village
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Coordinates: 42°59′47″N 42°54′53″E / 42.99639°N 42.91472°E / 42.99639; 42.91472Coordinates: 42°59′47″N 42°54′53″E / 42.99639°N 42.91472°E / 42.99639; 42.91472
Country	Georgia
Region	Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
Municipality	Mestia Municipality
Time zone	UTC+4 (Georgian Time)

Adishi (Adysh, Hadysh; Georgian: ადიში) is a highland village, 2,040 metres above sea level, in the Mestia Municipality of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of Georgia. Village is 44 kilometres from the town of Mestia.^[1]

History[]

Adysh. A photography by the Hungarian explorer Moriz von Déchy, c. 1905.

The landscape of the village is dominated by a number of medieval monuments, and the Greater Caucasus mountains. The important cultural sites of Adishi are: the Church of the Deliverer (10th–11th centuries), two churches of St George (12th century), the Church of the Archangel (12th century) and several typical Svanetian towers.

The well-known Adysh Gospels (AD 897) was preserved here for centuries.

See also[]

• Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti

References[]

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