Surami fortress

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Surami fortress

The Usharma Fortress ( Georgian სურამის ციხე ) is a medieval Georgian fortress in the Inner Kartli region , in the municipality of Chaschuri , it dominates the northern part of the city of Surami and is located on the left bank of the Suramula River .

The topographical location in the center of Georgia on a canyon-like breakthrough valley and near the Surami Pass over the Likhi Mountains ( Georgian ლიხის ქედი ) and Surami Mountains ( Georgian სურამის ქედი ) was decisive for the construction of the fortress .

Today it is still unclear when and by whom the oldest parts of the Surami fortress were built.

Archaeological finds show that the area around the fortress was already populated in the Bronze Age. The Georgian historian Plato Ioseliani describes in his works that the first facilities were built by the Iberian (Georgian) King Parnajomi in the 2nd century BC .

Further evidence can be found in Turkish and Persian sources:

  • According to an Ottoman writer Evliya Çelebi , the fortress was expanded on the instructions of the Persian Great King Chosrau I. Anuschirwan .
  • After the Persian historian Iskander Musch was the fortress of Abbas I built.

Today Georgian scientists use the remains of the building to suggest that the associated buildings were erected in the 11th century.

As a testimony to the country's history, parts of the fortress wall have been restored and thus form a tourist attraction in the city. From the top of the wall you have a panoramic view over the valley basin and the more recent buildings of the city, which also include a Church of Our Lady and the Kviratskhoveli Church.

Web links

Commons : Surami Fortress  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ N. Sakaraia, Georgian Fortresses, "ფრესკა", Tiflis. 1985. p. 15
  2. ↑ П. Иоселиани. Города, сушествовавшие и сушествуюшие в Грузии, Тифлис, 1850. с. 62-63
  3. ↑ Evliya Çelebi, მოგზაურობის წიგნი, თურქულიდან თარგმნა, translated in Georgian by Giorgi Puturidze, Volume 1, Tiflis, 1971, p. 296
  4. ↑ Iskander Munsch, ცნობები საქართველოს შესახებ, Georgian translation by Giorgi Puturidse, Tiflis, 1969, p. 90
  5. ↑ Sch. Meschia, საისტორიო ძიებანი, Volume II, Tbilisi, 1983
  6. ↑ P. Sakaraia, საქართველოს ძველი ქალაქები და ციხე-სიმაგრეები, Tbilisi, 1973

Coordinates: 42 ° 1 ′ 19 ″  N , 43 ° 33 ′ 0.9 ″  E