Gonio Fortress

Gonio fort is a Roman fortification in Adjara, Georgia, at the Black Sea, 15 km south of Batumi, on the mouth of the Chorokhi river. The village sits four km north of the Turkish border. Its name changed into connected with the myth of Medea and her brother Absyrtus. The oldest connection with the fortress is via Pliny the Elder in the Natural History. There is also a connection with the ancient name of the website in Appian’s Mithridatic Wars. In the second century AD it was a nicely-fortified Roman city inside Colchis. The town changed into additionally recognised for its theatre and hippodrome. Procopius, writing in the 6th century,

speaks of the remains of its public homes as proving that it become as soon as a place of a few importance. It later got here underneath Byzantine have an effect on. The name "Gonio" is first attested in Michael Panaretos within the 14th century. In addition, there was a quick-lived Genoese alternate manufacturing facility on the website.