Gagra

Gagra is a city in Abkhazia northwestern Georgia, sprawling for 5 km on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains. Its subtropical weather made Gagra a famous fitness inn in Imperial Russian and Soviet times. It had a population of 26,636 in 1989; however, this has fallen notably because of the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia and different demographic shifts in the course of and after the War in Abkhazia.

The town changed into hooked up as a Greek colony in the state of Colchis, called Triglite, inhabited by way of Greeks and Colchians. Colchis came under the management of the dominion of Pontus inside the 1st century BC earlier than being absorbed with the aid of the Roman Empire, which renamed the city as Nitica. Its geographical position led the Romans to make stronger the city, which turned into again and again attacked by means of Goths and different invaders. After the autumn of Rome, its successor, the Byzantine Empire, took manipulate of the city and complete Colchis. It have become a primary trading settlement wherein Genoan and Venetian traders had been outstanding, trading within the metropolis's foremost exports - wooden, honey, wax and slaves.