Oni, Georgia
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Oni — Town — Oni Synagogue
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Oni (Georgian: ონი) is a town in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region (mkhare), Georgia. Historically and ethnographically, it is part of Racha, a historic highland province in western Georgia. The town also serves as an administrative center of the Oni district (raioni).
Oni is situated in a deep gorge on the left bank of Rioni River, some 830 m above sea level and 210 km northwest of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.
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History
The former seal of Oni devised during the Imperial Russian rule.The territory of modern-day Oni has been inhabited since the Bronze Age. Archaeology revealed the artifacts of Colchian culture, particularly a collection of Colchian coins dating back to the 6th-3rd centuries BC. Oni is first chronicled in the 15th century, though a legend has it that the town was founded by the 2nd BC king Pharnajom of Iberia. Located on the crossroads from Northern Caucasus, Kartli (central Georgia), Imereti (western Georgia) and Lower Rach’a, Oni developed into a typical late medieval commercial town and was contested between the kings of Imereti and the princes of Rach’a. The town was absorbed by Imperial Russia in 1810, and made it, in 1846 a center of the Rach’a district. During the Soviet Union, the town was united with a number of surrounding villages into the Oni district, which is currently administered as a part of the Racha-Lechkhumi and Lower Svaneti region.
In recent decades Oni has suffered from earthquakes and a series of avalanches. A particularly severe earthquake occurred on 29 April 1991. The earthquake's magnitude was measured at 6.9 on the Richter scale, the most powerful ever recorded in the Caucasus Mountains, and caused significant damage to the infrastructure of Oni.
The Synagogue in OniDespite a post-Soviet tendency towards migration, Oni still retains a small number of Jewish families - remnants of once powerful and large historic Jewish community , Georgia’s third largest, after those of Tbilisi and Kutaisi. There is a synagogue in Oni built in the 1880s by polish architect and the builders were greek jews from Thessaloniki.[1]
Oni and its environs house a number of historical monuments, including the ruins of medieval forts and Georgian Orthodox churches. A popular spa, Shovi, and Utsera are located some 15-30 km from Oni, on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus mountains. The Racha Regional Museum, located in Oni, has an impressive collection of 14000 unique artifacts from the fields of archeology, ethnography, numismatics, natural history, fine art, historical documents, manuscripts, and printed books.
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Beersheba, Israel.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA.
Notable people from Oni
- Gerzel Baazov (1904-1938), Georgian Jewish writer
External links
References
- ^ Jewish History, Rebirth Celebrated in Ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia, The Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS, November 3, 2005.
Coordinates: 42°35′N 43°27′E / 42.583°N 43.45°E
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