Eki castle

Castle/Tower Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Senaki district

Castle/Tower Castle/Tower

In the valley of the Tsivi River, some ten kilometers from Senaki, on the left side of the road, a fortress stands on a high mountaintop; the locals, as is their custom, call it "Jikha". The place is forested and the fortress cannot be viewed in full. It consists of an enclosure wall and one tower, completed by a ditch running around the wall. This picture is typical of the system used in the kingdom of Egrisi, so the layout itself points to a date in the 4th–5th centuries.

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