On the historical prerequisites of Georgia’s territorial claims during the Paris congress of 1919

The paper deals with the issue of Georgia’s territorial claims in the Western Caucasus, related to the creation of a modern concept of Georgian historical geography. This issue was raised at the Paris Congress of 1919. Obviously, the question of the medieval borders of Georgia, raised at the Paris Congress in 1919 by the Georgian delegation, is directly related to the problem of localizing the largest religious center of the Western Caucasus and the entire Eastern Black Sea region: Nicopsia of Zikhia. Moreover, its solution took on a completely different meaning when the political ambitions of the young Georgian Republic found a foothold in certain trends in historiographical studies of the region. The period of church heyday in the Western Caucasus in the VIII-XI centuries, to which the existence of Nikopsia of Zikhiya is attributed, was marked by large-scale church construction in the region. The heyday of church life in the Western Caucasus in the VIII-XI centuries, which is associated with the existence of Nikopsia of Zikhia, was marked by large-scale church construction in the region. Many monuments are known and studied, while others, including the remnants of church buildings near the mouth of the Nechepsukho River, with which a number of authors link Nicopsia, are still waiting for their explorers.