This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations.(July 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Cave monastery in southern Georgia
Five monks still live in this mountain. Every morning at seven they ring the bell in the high arch.Rat'i Surameli, Duke of Javakheti and Kartli, wearing a sharbush and a front-opening qaba with tiraz, slightly before 1186, Vardzia, southern Georgia, Inv. No. 5246-262.[1]
Vardzia (Georgian: ვარძია[vaɾdzia]) is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza. The main period of construction was the second half of the twelfth century. The caves stretch along the cliff for some five hundred meters and in up to nineteen tiers. The monastery was an important cultural center, a place of significant literary and artistic work.
The Church of the Dormition, dating to the 1180s during the golden age of Tamar and Rustaveli, has an important series of wall paintings. The site was largely abandoned after the Ottoman takeover in the sixteenth century. Now part of a state heritage reserve, the extended area of Vardzia-Khertvisi has been submitted for future inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.[2][3][4][5]
^Flood, Finbarr Barry (2017). A Turk in the Dukhang? Comparative Perspectives on Elite Dress in Medieval Ladakh and the Caucasus. Austrian Academy of Science. p. 252, Fig. 19.
^"About Meskheti". Parliament of Georgia. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
^"Vardzia Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve". National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
^"Vardzia-Khertvisi". UNESCO. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
^"Vardzia Monastery complex". National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
Vardzia (Georgian: ვარძია [vaɾdzia]) is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank...
One of the main attractions of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region along with Vardzia. The original name of the fortress in the 9th century was Lomsia, which...
Zeda Vardzia (Georgian: ზედა ვარძია, literally, "upper Vardzia") is an 11th-century Georgian Orthodox church, of the Theotokos, located in the Aspindza...
Tamar to mark out her unique position among women. Tbilisi Kutaisi Tskhumi Vardzia Kabala Lore 1195 1196 1199-- 1201 1203 1204 1203 1206 1208 1209/10 1212...
one of the main attractions of the Samtskhe–Javakheti region, along with Vardzia, Vale, Okrostsikhe and Zarzma. Akhaltsikhe is the Georgian name of the...
monastery complex Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau Vardzia cave city and monastery Greece various cave hermitages at Meteora various...
of Tamar describes how the army was assembled at the rock-hewn town of Vardzia before marching on to Basian and how the queen addressed the troops from...
"went to the Church of Assumption in Vardzia and prayed before the Virgin Mary of Vardzia... and sent troops from Vardzia, standing there herself barefeet...
expectation of Rukn ad-Din's divine judgement carried out by Georgians. Tbilisi Vardzia Erzurum Battle of Basiani The Georgian army, numbering 65,000–90,000 troops...
bank of the Kura River, a few kilometers downstream of the cave city of Vardzia. The name "Tmogvi" is derived from the Armenian word mog, meaning "pagan...
George III გიორგი III George III as depicted on a medieval fresco from Vardzia King of Georgia (more...) Reign 1156–1184 Predecessor Demetrius I Successor...
churches, monasteries, and royal residences (Lgivi, Ghrtila, Bozhano, Vardzia, etc.) were built. In 1064 the Seljuk Turks conquered the area and ruled...
monastery complex. A rock-hewn monastery complex founded in the 6th century Vardzia. A cave monastery site in southern Georgia Gelati Monastery. The monastery...
of Javakheti and Kartli, wearing a sharbush and a front-opening qaba with tiraz, slightly before 1186, Vardzia, southern Georgia, Inv. No. 5246-262....
mass migration. An earthquake destroys two thirds of the cave city of Vardzia, Georgia. January 2 – Most of Dublin, including St. Patrick's Cathedral...
of the First Crusade as set by Pope Urban II. 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. 1224 – The Livonian Brothers...
Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "Vardzia-Khertvisi". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on...
Georgian Queen Tamar with the legend თამარ მეფე XII ს., 12th–13th century Vardzia cave monastery complex and a bas-relief from the 13th century Pitareti...
also mentioned in a memorial side-note in the 13th-century Gospel from Vardzia and, probably, also in a similar text in the 11th-century Gospel from Urbnisi...
Global Information
