Aspindza ( Georgian : ასპინძა ) is a daba ("small town") in southern Georgia's region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 2,793 (2014 census), mostly ethnic Georgians. It is located at around 41°34′26″N 43°15′22″E / 41.57389°N 43.25611°E / 41.57389; 43.25611 .
4-489: The word "Aspindza" derives from a Persian word "اسب انداز", which means "a place to rest". The year of the foundation the town is considered to be 888, as Leonti Mroveli ( Georgian : ლეონტი მროველი ) tells - The run away Nasra was caught near Samtskhe, and killed by Aspindza in the year 888 By the end of the 16th century Aspindza had been conquered by the Ottoman Turks. According to their census, "Aspindza
8-553: A 1066 inscription from the Trekhvi caves in central Georgia. Assumptions that Leonti Mroveli belonged to the eighth or early tenth century now seem implausible. This Mroveli no longer occupied the post in 1103, for he is not attested in the act of the Georgian ecclesiastic synod convened at Ruisi and the neighboring cathedral of Urbnisi by King David IV . Leonti is credited by some historians with having written several pieces of
12-634: The 11th-century Georgian chronicler, presumably an ecclesiastic. Mroveli is not his last name, but the adjective for the diocese of Ruisi , whose bishop he probably was. Hence, another modern English transliteration of his name is Leontius of Ruisi . Apart from late annotations to the manuscripts of The Georgian Chronicles , an archbishop of Ruisi named Leonti is mentioned only thrice: once in an 11th-century manuscript from Mount Athos ; once in Euthymius of Athos 's translation of Chrysostom 's commentary to St. Matthew ; and, most specifically, on
16-402: Was a big village, that consisted of 50 families with gardens and orchards". The village is mentioned in chronicle of Sumbat Davitisdze ( Georgian : სუმბატ დავითის ძე ) and Vakhushti ( Georgian : ვახუშტი ). This Georgia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Leonti Mroveli Leonti Mroveli ( Georgian : ლეონტი მროველი ) was
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