page_title: Adysh
hierarchical_section_title: Adysh
caption_attribution_description: English: Adishi, Georgia. Photographed by the Hungarian explorer Moriz von Déchy (1851-1917)
context_page_description: Adishi is a highland village, 2,040 metres above sea level, in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia, 44 kilometres from the town of Mestia. 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, two churches of St George, the Church of the Archangel and several typical Svanetian towers.
  The well-known Adysh Gospels was preserved here for centuries.
context_section_description: Adishi (Adysh, Hadysh; Georgian: ადიში) is a highland village, 2,040 metres above sea level, in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia, 44 kilometres from the town of Mestia. 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.
caption: Adysh. A photography by the Hungarian explorer Moriz von Déchy, c. 1905.
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