Shatili
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Shatili შატილი |
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 Georgia
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| Region : | Mtskheta-Mtianeti | ||
| Municipality : | Showereti | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 40 ′ N , 45 ° 9 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 1,420 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 22 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | Georgian Time (UTC + 4) | ||
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Shatili ( Georgian შატილი ; ʃɑtʼɪlɪ ) is a village in Georgia , in the historical province of Chewsureti . Today it belongs to the Dusheti municipality of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region and is the capital of a municipality of the same name ( შატილის თემი , Shatilis temi ). Shatili is considered to be one of the best examples of Georgian medieval architecture in Khevsureti. In the past, the village also served as a fortress and was of strategic importance for the Kingdom of Georgia due to its proximity to the northern state border .
The old village of Shatili is located on a rock. The houses are very dense, in fact built without a gap, so that the outer buildings form a wall around the village. Shatili was connected to other villages in Chewsureti by the only road in the Argun valley. The residential buildings of the old village are houses with flat roofs or the residential towers that are widespread in Chewsureti.
Restoration work on the original village began in the 1970s. On October 24, 2007, Shatili was put on the proposed list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites .
Around the old village there are some more modern village houses in loose buildings. The place had only 22 permanent residents at the last census (2014); In 2002 there were 68, in the first half of the 20th century more than 200. Nevertheless, Shatili is the largest town in Chewsuretia north of the main Caucasus ridge ; In the other seven still inhabited places in the area, only 26 people live together, 15 of them in Muzo .
literature
- Soviet Georgian Encyclopedia . Volume 10, Tbilisi 1986, p. 692. (Georgian)
- Description of Georgian history and culture. Volume 2, Tbilisi 2008. (Georgian)
- Shorena Kurtsikidze, Vakhtang Chikovani: Ethnography and Folklore of the Georgia-Chechnya Border: Images, Customs, Myths & Folk Tales of the Peripheries. Lincom Europa, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89586-328-8 .
