Official Name: | Adishi |
Native Name: | Georgian: ადიში |
Native Name Lang: | geo |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Georgia Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti#Georgia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Georgia |
Coordinates: | 42.9964°N 42.9147°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Georgia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Mestia Municipality |
Elevation M: | 2040 |
Population Total: | 44 |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Timezone: | Georgian Time |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Adishi (Adysh, Hadysh;) is a highland village, 2,040 metres above sea level, in the Mestia Municipality of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of Georgia. According to the data of 2014, 44 people live in the village.[1] Village is 27 kilometres from the town of Mestia.[2]
The landscape of the village is dominated by a number of medieval monuments, and the Greater Caucasus mountains. The important cultural sites of Adishi are: the Church of the Deliverer (10th - 11th centuries), two churches of St George (12th century), the Church of the Archangel (12th century) and several typical Svanetian towers.
The well-known Adysh Gospels (AD 897) was preserved here for centuries.