Georgia
Abkhazia
Gagra District

Pitsunda

Pitsunda or Bichvinta is a resort town in the of /. Founded by Greek colonists in the 5th century BC, Pitsunda became an important political and religious centre of the region in the antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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  • Type: Town with 4,090 residents
  • Description: town in Georgia
  • Also known as: “Bichvinta”, “Bitchvinta”, “Pitsundo”, and “Pitsundskiy”
  • Historically known as: “Pitsvints”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Patriarchal Cathedral St. Andrew.

Church
Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral of St. Andrew the Apostle, also known as the Pitsunda Cathedral or Bichvinta Cathedral is an Eastern Orthodox Cathedral located in Pitsunda, in the of the de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia, internationally recognised as constituting a part of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lidzava.

Village
Photo: Владимир К, CC BY 3.0.
is a village in the of , . is situated 3½ km northeast of Pitsunda.

Pitsunda

Latitude
43.1598° or 43° 9′ 35″ north
Longitude
40.3372° or 40° 20′ 14″ east
Population
4,090
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
8HM2585P+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 34185745
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
615460
Wiki­data ID
Q211318
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Uzbek—“Pitsunda” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Пицунда”
  • Arabic: “بيتسوندا”
  • Arabic: “بيتيوس”
  • Armenian: “Բիճվինթա”
  • Armenian: “Պիցունդա”
  • Asturian: “Pitsunda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pisunda”
  • Bashkir: “Пицунда”
  • Belarusian: “Піцунда”
  • Catalan: “Pitsunda”
  • Cebuano: “Bichvinta”
  • Chechen: “Пицунда”
  • Chinese: “比奇温塔”
  • Chinese: “皮聪大”
  • Chinese: “皮聰大”
  • Church Slavic: “Пицоунда”
  • Chuvash: “Пицунда”
  • Croatian: “Bichvinta”
  • Croatian: “Pitiunt”
  • Croatian: “Pitsunda”
  • Czech: “Picunda”
  • Dutch: “Pezonda”
  • Dutch: “Pitiunt”
  • Dutch: “Pitsoenda”
  • Dutch: “Pitsunda”
  • Eastern Mari: “Пицунда”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيتسوندا”
  • Esperanto: “Picunda”
  • Estonian: “Bitšvintha”
  • Estonian: “Pitsunda”
  • Finnish: “Pitsunda”
  • French: “Pitsounda”
  • French: “Pitsunda”
  • French: “Pityos”
  • Georgian: “Bich’vinta”
  • Georgian: “ბიჭვინთა”
  • Georgian: “პიტიუნტი”
  • German: “Bitschwinta”
  • German: “Pizunda”
  • Greek: “Μπίτσβιντα”
  • Greek: “Πιτσούντα”
  • Greek: “Πιτυούς”
  • Hausa: “Pitsunda”
  • Hebrew: “ביצ’ווינתה”
  • Hebrew: “ביצ’וינתה”
  • Hebrew: “ביצווינתה”
  • Hebrew: “פיטוס”
  • Hebrew: “פיטיאונט”
  • Hebrew: “פיטיוס”
  • Hebrew: “פיצונדה”
  • Hebrew: “פיתוס”
  • Indonesian: “Pitsunda”
  • Italian: “Bichvinta”
  • Italian: “Pezonda”
  • Italian: “Pitsunda”
  • Japanese: “ピチュンダ”
  • Japanese: “ピツンダ”
  • Kirghiz: “Пицунда”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Пицунда”
  • Komi: “Пицунда”
  • Korean: “비츠빈타”
  • Korean: “피춘다”
  • Korean: “피티우스”
  • Korean: “피티운트”
  • Latin: “Pithyus”
  • Latvian: “Picunda”
  • Lithuanian: “Picunda”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitijus”
  • Mingrelian: “ბიჭვინთა”
  • Moksha: “Бичвинта”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pitsunda”
  • Norwegian: “Pitsunda”
  • Ossetian: “Питиунт”
  • Ossetian: “Пицундæ”
  • Ossetian: “Пицунда”
  • Persian: “پیتسوندا”
  • Polish: “Picunda”
  • Polish: “Pityus”
  • Portuguese: “Bichvinta”
  • Portuguese: “Pitsunda”
  • Romanian: “Piţunda”
  • Romanian: “Pițunda”
  • Russian: “Питиунт”
  • Russian: “Пицунда”
  • Serbian: “Picunda”
  • Serbian: “Pizunda”
  • Serbian: “Пицунда”
  • Serbian: “ბიჭვინთა”
  • Slovenian: “Picunda”
  • Spanish: “Pitsunda”
  • Swedish: “Bitjvinta”
  • Swedish: “Pitiunt”
  • Swedish: “Pitsunda”
  • Swedish: “Pituos”
  • Swedish: “Pityous”
  • Tatar: “Пицунда”
  • Turkish: “Pitsunda”
  • Ukrainian: “Пітіунт”
  • Ukrainian: “Піцунда”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Picunda”
  • Urdu: “پیتسوندا”
  • Uzbek: “Pitsunda”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pitsunda”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.