Mtskheta
Mtskheta is a town with a population of about 8,000 people 15 km north of Tbilisi in the Kartli region of Georgia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Kober, Public domain.
- 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.
Jvari Monastery
Church
Photo: Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jvari Monastery is a sixth-century Georgian 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.
Svetitskhoveli Cathedral
Church
The Svetitskhoveli Cathedral is an Orthodox Christian cathedral located in the historic town of Mtskheta, Georgia, to the northwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
Samtavro Monastery
Photo: Martijn Munneke, CC BY 2.0.
Samtavro Monastery is a Georgian Orthodox Christian monastery complex that combines Samtavro Transfiguration Church and Nunnery of St. Nino in Mtskheta, Georgia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tsitsamuri.
Tsitsamuri
Village
Tsitsamuri is a small village outside Mtskheta, Georgia. It is known as the place where the nation's famous writer and poet, Ilia Chavchavadze, was assassinated in 1907.
Mtskheta
- Categories: city, populated place in Georgia, and locality
- Location: Mtskheta Municipality, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Kartli, Georgia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
41.8463° or 41° 50′ 47″ northLongitude
44.7196° or 44° 43′ 10″ eastPopulation
7,380Elevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)United Nations Location Code
GE ZAAOpen location code
8HH6RPW9+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 218787821OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- 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”
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