Anacopia Fortress

Anakopia Fortress is an ancient military citadel in New Athos in the disputed Abkhazia, Georgia located some 22 km by road along the coast from Sukhumi.

Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Tourist attraction
Description: ancient military citadel in New Athos, Georgia
Also known as: “Anakopia Fortress”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Iverian Mountain and New Athos Cave.

Iverian Mountain

Peak

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Iverian Mountain or Iberian Mountain is a 344-meter high hill in New Athos, Abkhazia, Georgia. There are ruins of the ancient capital of Abkhazia, Anakopia, on the mountain top.

The New Athos Cave also Novoafonskaya, Novy Afon Cave, or New Afon Cave is a karst cave in the Iverian Mountain in Abkhazia near the city of New Athos. New Athos Cave is situated 460 metres south of Anacopia Fortress.

New Athos Monastery

Monastery

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New Athos Monastery is a monastery in New Athos, municipality of Gudauta, in a breakaway republic of Abkhazia. New Athos Monastery was founded in 1875 by monks who came from the St. Panteleimon Monastery in Mount Athos, with Mount Athos having been an important site for the Orthodox Church since 1054. New Athos Monastery is situated 1¼ km southeast of Anacopia Fortress.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Athos and Tsukwara.

New Athos

Photo: Svetlana Grechkina, CC BY-SA 2.0.

New Athos or Akhali Atoni is a town in the Gudauta Municipality of Abkhazia situated some 22 km from Sokhumi by the shores of the Black Sea. The town was previously known under the greek names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, and later Psyrtskha. New Athos Cave is one of Abkhazia's tourist attractions.