Artanuji Kalesi ve Ardanuch şehrinin kalıntıları

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The fortress of Artanuji was built in the 5th century on the orders of the Georgian king Vakhtang Gorgasali]. In the 7th century, the city was destroyed by Arabs. At the beginning of the 9th century, Ashot I Kuropalat resumed and rebuilt the city as the capital of the Georgian principality of Tao-Klarzheti. According to Georgian sources, Ashot “discovered one in the forest in the forest one, where Vakhtang Gorgasal erected a fortress named Artanuji for the first time. She was ruined by Marwan II deaf from Baghdad. Ashot restored it and built a fortress again, and in front of the fortress, at its foot, built the city. "The goddess at the expense of trade along the Great Silk Road, Artanuji turned into a large trade and craft center of the Middle East. A thorough description of the city in the X century was left by Konstantin Bagryanorod in the essay “On the Office of the Empire”.