Mtskheta

Mtskheta is a town with a population of about 8,000 people 15 km north of in the region of .
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  • Type: Town with 7,380 residents
  • Description: city in Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia
  • Also known as: “Mcxeta”, “Mtshoeta”, “Mtskhera”, “Mtzkhet”, “Mzcheta”, and “Mzheta”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jvari Monastery and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral.

Monastery
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is a sixth-century Orthodox monastery near Mtskheta, eastern Georgia. Jvari is a rare case of an Early Medieval Georgian church that has survived to the present day almost unchanged.

Church
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The is an Orthodox Christian cathedral located in the historic town of Mtskheta, , northwest of the Georgian capital .

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is a locale in , 4 km southwest of Mtskheta and 22 km northwest of . A part of historical Greater Mtskheta, it is a place where the ancient city of the same name and the original capital of the early Georgian kingdom of or Iberia was located.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tsitsamuri.

Village
is a small village outside Mtskheta, . It is known as the place where the nation's famous writer and poet, Ilia Chavchavadze, was assassinated in 1907.

Mtskheta

Latitude
41.8463° or 41° 50′ 47″ north
Longitude
44.7196° or 44° 43′ 10″ east
Population
7,380
Elevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GE ZAA
Open location code
8HH6RPW9+GR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 218787821
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
612890
Wiki­data ID
Q180810
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Mtskheta” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Mtskheta”
  • Arabic: “متسخيتا”
  • Arabic: “محمية المدينة ومتحف متسخيتا”
  • Armenian: “Մցխեթ”
  • Asturian: “Mtskheta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Msxeta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mtsxeta”
  • Bashkir: “Мцхета”
  • Basque: “Miskheta”
  • Basque: “Mtskheta”
  • Belarusian: “Мцхета”
  • Belarusian: “Мцхэта”
  • Bulgarian: “Мцхета”
  • Catalan: “Mtskheta”
  • Catalan: “Mtskhetha”
  • Cebuano: “Mtskheta (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Mtskheta”
  • Chechen: “Мцхета”
  • Chinese: “姆茨赫塔”
  • Croatian: “Mcheta”
  • Czech: “Mccheta”
  • Czech: “Mcheta”
  • Czech: “Mtskheta”
  • Danish: “Mtskheta”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mtsxeta”
  • Dutch: “Mtscheta (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Mtscheta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محمية المدينه ومتحف متسخيتا”
  • Erzya: “Мцхета”
  • Esperanto: “Mcĥeta”
  • Esperanto: “Mtskheta”
  • Estonian: “Mtshetha”
  • Finnish: “Mtskheta”
  • French: “Mtskheta”
  • French: “Mtskhéta”
  • Georgian: “Mtskheta”
  • Georgian: “მცხეთა”
  • German: “Meschetien”
  • German: “Mtskheta”
  • German: “Mzcheta”
  • Greek: “Μτσκέτα”
  • Greek: “Μτσχέτα”
  • Hebrew: “מצחטה”
  • Hebrew: “מצחתה”
  • Hungarian: “Mcheta”
  • Indonesian: “Mtskheta”
  • Irish: “Mtskheta”
  • Italian: “Mtskheta”
  • Japanese: “ムツヘタ”
  • Kazakh: “Мцхета”
  • Korean: “므츠케타”
  • Korean: “므츠헤타”
  • Latin: “Mtzcheta”
  • Latvian: “Mcheta”
  • Lithuanian: “Mccheta”
  • Macedonian: “Мцхета”
  • Malayalam: “മ്റ്റിസ്ഖേറ്റ.”
  • Malayalam: “മ്റ്റിസ്ഖേറ്റ”
  • Maltese: “Mtskheta”
  • Mazanderani: “متسختا”
  • Mingrelian: “მცხეთა”
  • Moksha: “Мцхэта”
  • Mongolian: “Мцхета”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mts’cheta”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mtscheta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mtskheta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mtskheta”
  • Norwegian: “Mtskheta”
  • Ossetian: “Цхета”
  • Persian: “متسختا”
  • Polish: “Mccheta”
  • Portuguese: “Misqueta”
  • Portuguese: “Mtscheta”
  • Portuguese: “Mtskheta”
  • Quechua: “Miskheta”
  • Romanian: “Mțheta”
  • Russian: “Мцхета”
  • Scots: “Mtskheta”
  • Serbian: “Mcheta”
  • Serbian: “Мцкхета”
  • Serbian: “Мцхета”
  • Serbian: “მცხეთა”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mcheta”
  • Slovak: “Mccheta”
  • Slovenian: “Mcheta”
  • Spanish: “Miskheta”
  • Spanish: “Mtsjeta”
  • Spanish: “Mtskheta”
  • Swedish: “Mtscheta”
  • Swedish: “Mtskheta”
  • Thai: “มซเคตา”
  • Thai: “มสเฆทา”
  • Turkish: “Mtsheta”
  • Ukrainian: “Мцхета”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mccheta”
  • Urdu: “متسختا”
  • Uzbek: “Msxeta”
  • Vietnamese: “Mtskheta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mtskheta”
  • Welsh: “Mtskheta”
  • Wu Chinese: “姆茨赫塔”
  • Yue Chinese: “姆茨赫塔”
  • “მცხეთა”

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