Bihvinta

Pitsunda or Bichvinta is a motel metropolis within the Gagra district of Abkhazia, Georgia. The city turned into based inside the fifth century BC as Pityus or Pitiunt, a Greek colony and exchange port at the coast of the Kingdom of Lazica. The metropolis changed into surrounded by means of a protective wall, the castellum had a 2nd line of defence constructed in mid-3rd century AD.

Excavations guided through Andria Apakidze unearthed, in 1952, remains of three 4th-century church buildings and a bathtub with exquisite mosaic floors. The former "Great Pityus" harbor is now a mere lake inside the town. The Goths attacked the metropolis in 255 CE after taking the Bosporan fleet. The Roman garrison underneath the command of Successianus repelled the attack; however they lower back inside the next year, took the town and proceeded further to sack Trebizond. Saint John Chrysostom changed into being led in the direction of Pityus by means of the imperial soldiers, in the execution of the decree of exile, when he died at the manner in 407. Like Dioskurias, it remained below Roman manage within the Georgian state of Colchis until the 7th century.