ON THE CONTROVERSIAL LOCALIZATION OF THE TSAKHAR FORTRESS IN THE PASCHAL FORTIFICATION

The issue of localization one or another toponym known from narrative sources is often ambiguous and causes discussions in the scientific community. This article devoted to analysis introduced into circulation by Yu.N. Voronov well-established identification a famous monument on left bank Kodor – Pskal fortification with Tzakhar fortress, described Agafius Mirineisky. temple surrounded fortress wall total area 1100 m². authors carried out detailed geographical location fortification, made full-scale inspection, created photogrammetric models landscape itself. showed that Pskalsky was connected region River, not Tsebelda Valley Misimians, which Agathius Mirineisky describes, were located right this river. absence description crossing over river inconsistency source regarding Ttsakhar allows us say premature extremely controversial. An design features it possible find number analogies among other monuments region, including those studied archaeologically, thanks we can state: type: small temples semicircular apse inscribed common rectangular outline, two niches both sides semicircle could have been built later than 12th century, but they are era either. They be attributed emergence single Abkhazian kingdom. Thus, Mount ancient Misimian late antiquity, medieval history kingdom, still requires its study.