Zemo Nikozi
Zemo Nikozi is a village in the Shida Kartli region of central Georgia. It is the birthplace of Patriarch Kyrion II of Georgia. Nikozi is one of Georgia's oldest villages and home to early Christian churches and historical monuments.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 643 residents
- Description: place in Shida Kartli, Georgia
- Also known as: “Nikozi Verkhniye” and “Zemo-Nikozi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Mary’s Church.
St. Mary’s Church
Church
The St. Mary's Church, also called Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, is a church of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the center of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, a de facto independent region claimed by Georgia. St. Mary’s Church is situated 3½ km northeast of Zemo Nikozi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gujabauri and The Jewish quarter of Tskhinvali.
The Jewish quarter of Tskhinvali
Neighborhood
Photo: Alaexis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Jewish quarter of Tskhinvali is a neighborhood, which is situated 3 km northeast of Zemo Nikozi.
Tskhinvali
Photo: Alaexis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tskhinvali is the capital city of the republic of South Ossetia, self-declared and de-facto country with limited recognition which has seceded from Georgia, which sits in the Kartli region of Georgia. As of 2019, it was home to 32,000 people.
Zemo Nikozi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Shida Kartli, Georgia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
42.19525° or 42° 11′ 43″ northLongitude
43.95742° or 43° 57′ 27″ eastPopulation
643Elevation
854 metres (2,802 feet)Open location code
8HJ55XW4+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 428753194OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
610914Wikidata ID
Q12864690
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Zemo Nikozi” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Զեմո Նիքոզի”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя Нікозі”
- Belarusian: “Зэма-Нікозі”
- Chechen: “Земо-Никози”
- Dutch: “Zemo Nikozi”
- Georgian: “Zemo Nikozi”
- Georgian: “ზემო ნიქოზი”
- Japanese: “ゼモ・ニコジ”
- Ossetian: “Уæллаг Никоз”
- Persian: “زمو نیکوزی”
- Polish: “Zemo Nikozi”
- Russian: “Земо Никози”
- Ukrainian: “Земо Нікозі”
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