The Tsminda Sameba Church is near Mt. Kazbegi (Kazbek) on the rooftop of the Caucasus. This church was built in the fourteenth century and marks the northern frontiers of Georgia. On the other side of the mountains north from here were the Muslim North Caucasus and the Persian-related Ossetians, traditional enemies of Georgia, who were later used by imperial Russia to penetrate Georgia.
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