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Pitsunda (Abkhaz: Пиҵунда, Russian: Пицунда) or
Bichvinta (Georgian: ბიჭვინთა [bitʃʼʷintʰa] ) is a
resort town in the
Gagra District of Abkhazia/Georgia...
- The
Bichvinta Four
Gospels (Georgian: ბიჭვინთის ოთხთავი) is a 12th-century
illuminated m****cript of the Four
Gospels in Georgian,
copied in the nuskhuri...
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Bichvinta mosaic (Georgian: ბიჭვინთის მოზაიკა) is a 5th or 6th-century
floor mosaic from the
ruined early Christian church at a cape in the coastal...
- Georgia, the
Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and
Metropolitan Bishop of
Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia, His
Holiness and
Beatitude Ilia II." Ilia II was...
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Pitsunda Bay (Abkhaz: Пиҵунда абаҕуаза, Georgian: ბიჭვინთის ყურე, Russian: Пицундская бухта) is a bay in the
Black Sea near Pitsunda, Abkhazia. One of...
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Cathedral (Abkhaz: Пицундатәи ауахәама, romanized: Ṗicundaṭ°i awax°ama) or
Bichvinta Cathedral (Georgian: ბიჭვინთის ტაძარი, romanized: bich'vintis t'adzari)...
- Dvals, and all of the North. The
residence of the
Catholicoi was at
Bichvinta (now Pitsunda) in
Abkhazia (hence, the name of the Catholicate), but was...
- Georgian, and
Georgian became the
language of
culture and education. The
Bichvinta Cathedral is one of
oldest monuments of
Georgian Christian architecture...
- კათოლიკოს-პატრიარქი
Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and
Metropolitan bishop of
Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia
Archbishopric Eastern Orthodox Coat of Arms of Georgian...
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Orthodox churches, but the
territory is
recognized as the
Eparchy of
Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia of the
Georgian Orthodox Church) and **** Muslim...
