New Athos in the Gudauta raion of Abkhazia, the breakaway republic of Georgia, situated 22 km from Sukhumi by the shores of the Black Sea. The town was previously known under the names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, Psyrtskha. The Neo-Byzantine New Athos Monastery (middle right of this picture), dedicated to St. Simon the Canaanite, was constructed here in the 1880s with funds provided by Tsar Alexander III of Russia.