Akhali Atoni

New Athos or Akhali Atoni is a city in the Gudauta raion of Abkhazia, situated some 22 km from Sukhumi through the beaches of the Black Sea. The city became formerly recognized beneath the names Nikopol, Atheists, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, and Psyrtskha. A massive historical Greek port city of Anacopia became recorded there within the 3rd century.

Its ruins are nevertheless visible. In the 5th century, Georgians constructed a citadel on the pinnacle of the Iberian Mountain. Anacopia turned into the capital of the Abkhazian princedom within the orbit of the Byzantine Empire after which of the Abkhazian Kingdom after the archon Leon II d himself a king inside the past due 8th century. Later, the capital became moved to Kutaisi. Anacopia was ceded to Byzantine Empire via Demetre in 1033 however turned into retaken by way of Georgians in 1072 the various other territories Georgia gained because of the Empire's defeat at Manzikert on the fingers of Seljuks.