Bodorna

Bodorna

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Bodorna ბოდორნა
name_local = ბოდორნა



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map_caption = Location of Bodorna in Georgia
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subdivision_name = GEO
subdivision_type1 = Mkhare
subdivision_name1 = Mtskheta-Mtianeti
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timezone = GMT
utc_offset = +4
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latd=42 |latm=5 |lats=19.67 |latNS=N
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elevation_m = 880
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Bodorna ( _ka. ბოდორნა) is a small village in Georgia, situated on the Georgian Military Road, 8 km from the town of Dusheti, Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, in the east of the country.

Bodorna lies on the right bank of the small river Dushetis-Khevi, a right tributary to the Aragvi River, at an elevation of 880 m. above sea level. The village was fortified in the Middle Ages in a way to accommodate the fugitives from nearby locales during foreign incursions. Thus, the man-hewn caves at Bodorna are known to have served as a shelter for the populace of the Aragvi valley when the Turco-Mongol army of Timur penetrated the Georgian highlands in the 1390s.

South of the village is a 15 m. high column whose origin is not completely clear. It resembles a human figure, that of a monk, and may be a man-made structure, hewed from a natural, denudational relict, for cult purposes in the early Christian period, possibly the 5th-6th centuries. The column contains a large cave, one of those that were utilized as a shelter during Timur’s invasion. According to a medieval chronicle, the soldiers of Timur descended the column using ropes and shoot fiery arrows into the crowded cave.

Bodorna is a home to a 15th-century Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, which then served as a familial abbey and a burial ground for the Dukes of Aragvi of the Shaburidze family. It was almost completely rebuild in 1717 as revealed by a contemporaneous inscription. The extant structure is a single-nave domed church erected on a woody hill ("pictured").ka icon "Bodorna", in: "Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia", vol. 2, p. 442. Tbilisi, 1977.]

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