Tsageri

Tsageri

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Tsageri ცაგერი
name_local = ცაგერი


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map_caption = Location of Tsageri in Georgia
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subdivision_type1 = Mkhare
subdivision_name1 = Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti
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Tsageri ( _ka. ცაგერი) 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 Tskhenis-Tsqali, an affluent of the Rioni river. As of the 2002 census, the town had a population of approximately 1,900, mostly Georgians.

History

In medieval Georgia, Tsageri was an episcopal see, with a cathedral described by the early 18th-century geographer Vakhushti as "the cupola church of Tsageri, superbly built." [W.E.D. Allen. Two Georgian Maps of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century. "Imago Mundi", Vol. 10, 1953, pp. 99-121.] The original three-nave basilica design was significantly altered by the cathedral's late 19th-century restorers; the original wall paintings, including the portraits of Queen Tamar and her son George IV, were also lost in the process.

Under the Russian Empire and early Soviet government, Tsageri functioned as an administrative center of the Lechkhumi uyezd. It acquired the status of a town in 1968.

Culture and religion

There is the residence of the Georgian Orthodox bishop of Tsageri and Lentekhi in Tsageri. A local museum exhibits several thousands of archaeological artifacts unearthed in Lower Svaneti and Lechkhumi. [ [http://www.georgianmuseums.ge/MuseumEn/Musums/racha/Tsageri.html Georgian Museums: Tsageri Local Museum] . Ministry of Culture, Monuments Protection and Sport of Georgia. Retrieved on 2008-07-26.]

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. [Berthold, George C. (1985), "Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings", p. 31. Paulist Press, ISBN 0809126591.] 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. [ka icon [http://www.news.ge/index.php?lang_id=GEO&sec_id=3&info_id=92946 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.]

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