Shorapani

Shorapani
Town
Official seal of Shorapani Seal
Shorapani Location of the town of Shorapani in Georgia
Coordinates:
Country	Georgia
Mkhare	Imereti
District	Zestafoni District
Time zone	Georgian Standard Time (UTC+4)
Climate	Cfa

Shorapani (Georgian: შორაპანი) is a small Georgian town, situated in the Zestafoni District, part of the region of Imereti. Founded in the 3rd century BC, it served as a residence of the eristavi (dukes) of Argveti (also known as the Duchy of Shorapani) in the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Near the town are the ruins of a fortress, mentioned as Sarapana by Strabo and Sarapanis by Procopius as a strong position on the road that led from Colchis to Iberia.

Detail from a map of Rigobert Bonne, published in Geneve in 1780. The detail shows Shorapani (Serapana), Georgia

Legends

Shorapani (Sarapanis) is the toponymy, that is mentioned in old Greek mythology. That was Sarapanis that Jason and his Argonaut friends approached during their travel in old Colchis (Kolkhida).

External links

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)