Shavnabada is a mountain and extinct volcano of 2929 m/9507 ft height in southeastern Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

, some 30 km from the nation’s capital Tbilisi

Tbilisi

Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...

. It is one of the highest mountains of the Abul-Samsari Range

Abul-Samsari Range

Abul-Samsari Range is a volcanic range in southern Georgia, to the southwest of Tbilisi. It is a part of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains and rises above the Javakheti and Tsalka Plateaus. The Range itself is long and runs north to south from the Ktsia to the Paravani River Gorges.MountainsThe...

, a part of the Lesser Caucasus

Lesser Caucasus

Lesser Caucasus is one of the two main mountain ranges of Caucasus mountains, of length about 600 km....

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The mountain is notable for a medieval Georgian Orthodox monastery built there in honor of St. George who, according to a local legend, wore a black cloak (Georgian: shavi nabadi, hence the mountain’s name) when leading the army of the king of Georgia

Kingdom of Georgia

The Kingdom of Georgia was a medieval monarchy established in AD 978 by Bagrat III.It flourished during the 11th and 12th centuries, the so-called "golden age" of the history of Georgia. It fell to the Mongol invasions of the 13th century, but managed to re-assert sovereignty by 1327...

 in one of the victorious battles. The monastery is known for its rare variety of wine

Georgian wine

Georgia is one of the oldest wine producing regions of the world. The fertile valleys of the South Caucasus, which Georgia straddles, are believed by many archaeologists to be the source of the world's first cultivated grapevines and neolithic wine production, over 8,000 years ago...

, also called Shavnabada, made by the monks.

"Shavnabada" is also a moniker for the 13th "Shavnabada" Light Infantry Battalion of the Georgian Army which was based at this mountain in the 1990s.