Shemokmedi
Sign in to saveShemokmedi () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality, Guria, Georgia. It is located in western Georgia, on the Bzhuzhi river, at elevation of 190 m above sea level, 7 km east of the city of Ozurgeti. The village is home to the late medieval Shemokmedi Monastery.
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Place details
- Locality
- შემოქმედი
- Region
- გურია
- Country
- საქართველო
- Population
- 1,322
- Timezone
- Asia/Tbilisi
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Shemokmedi
- Settlement.native_name
- შემოქმედი
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- geo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Shemokmedi Village.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of the village from Shemokmedi Monastery
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Georgia#Georgia Guria
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 280
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Shemokmedi
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- შემოქმედი
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Located in
- Ozurgeti Municipality
- Official language
- Georgian
- Population
- +1322
- Elevation
- +190
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Shemokmedi Village.jpg
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Article
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Population
- People from Shemokmedi
- Notes
- References
Shemokmedi () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality, Guria, Georgia. It is located in western Georgia, on the Bzhuzhi river, at elevation of 190 m above sea level, 7 km east of the city of Ozurgeti. The village is home to the late medieval Shemokmedi Monastery.
== History == thumb|left|The Shemokmedi monastery in the 1830s. Archaeological reconnaissance works conducted at Shemokmedi from 1991 to 1994 yielded fragments of pottery characteristic of the Kura–Araxes culture, suggesting that the area had already been inhabited in the Early Bronze Age.