ხანძთის მონასტრის ლოკალიზაციისა და შავშეთ-კლარჯეთის საეკლესიო ისტორიული გეოგრაფიის ზოგიერთი საკითხი
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2013
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Abstract
Research of history, ethnology, condition of language of historical South-
West Georgia has become quite intensive within last twenty years. The main
reason of this is restoration of Georgia’s statehood and friendly relations
between Georgia and Turkey. As it is known an important part of historical
South-West Georgia is within present-day State of Turkey.
The Georgian scholars were given an opportunity to visit parts of
“Muslim Georgia”, in result of which many important historical-ethnographic
facts were determined. It is worthy to mention the progress in the sphere of
church architecture researches, while ethnological studies having been
conducted actually for the first time. It is known what wide monastic building
activities were underway in South-West Georgia of the early Middle Ages.
Many monuments of the Georgian culture are preserved till nowadays, however
many are so badly damaged that it is difficult to identify them and localize in
relevant place. In the Georgian historiography the disputable topic is an issue
about the Khandzta Monastery localization. The monastery was founded in ca
782, by the eminent Georgian ecclesiastical figure St. Grigol Khandzteli (Grigol
of Khandzta). At present, P. Ingorokva’s consideration concerning the above
mentioned issue has mainly been shared: according to this scholar, the Khandzta
Monastery is the cathedral existing in the village Porta.
P. Ingorokva was not able to visit the relevant region and make
immediate observations of the Shavshet-Klarjeti monuments. He relied on the
description of Porti church complex made by N. Marr. Some researchers has
recently doubted consideration of Porti being Khandzta. ex., M. Paghava
stresses that Khandzta is Nuka church. In 2010 we wrote that the Khandzta
Monastery had not reached us, that Khandzta existed in the village Ube of
Imerkhevi. The main argument proving this idea is toponym “Khandzta” in the
vicinity of the village Ube. Any villager of Ube and any resident of
surrounding villages are aware of the location of Khandzta. The activities of this year expedition have strengthened the consideration expressed earlier: the
Khandzta monastery has not reached us (as well as the Shatberdi Monastery). It
existed at the village Ube and it was destroyed. One of the material proofs of the
monastery existence can be considered a stone boulder, on which a hand is
inscribed (due to this, the territory adjacent to the boulder is called by the local
residents “hand of a nepe”). A majority of Shavshet-Klarjeti 12 churches has
not reached us. The fate of Khandzta and Shatberdi has been shared by Dabi
and Meresa monastery-churches as well, which were also located in the
Khandzta Monastery sector in Imerkhevi.
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ხანძთა, ისტორიული გეოგრაფია, შავშეთ-კლარჯეთი
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის საქართველოს ისტორიის ინსტიტუტის შრომები, VII, თბილისი, 2013, გვ. 66-82 / Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Institute of Georgian History Proceedings, VII, Tbilisi, 2013, pp. 66-82