![]() The ruins of a six-column hall in the Armazi palace on Mount Bagineti (1st century BC). | |
Location | Kartli, Georgia |
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Coordinates | 41°49′N 44°40′E / 41.817°N 44.667°E |
Type | Settlement |
Site notes | |
Condition | In ruins |
Armazi (Georgian: არმაზი) is a locale in Georgia, 4 km southwest of Mtskheta and 22 km northwest of Tbilisi. A part of historical Greater Mtskheta, it is a place where the ancient city of the same name and the original capital of the early Georgian kingdom of Kartli or Iberia was located. It particularly flourished in the early centuries AD and was destroyed by the Arab invasion in the 730s.