Shavnabada ( ka, შავნაბადა) is a mountain and

extinct volcano A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the Crust (geology), crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic gas, gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth ...

of 2929 m/9507 ft height in southeastern

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. It is one of the highest mountains of the

Abul-Samsari Range Samsari RangeOrthographic dictionary of geographic names of Georgian, p. 148, Tbilisi, 2009 ( ka, სამსრის ქედი) is a volcanic range in southern Georgia (country), Georgia, to the southwest of Tbilisi. It is a part of the Hig ...

, a part of the

Lesser Caucasus The Lesser Caucasus or Lesser Caucasus Mountains, also called Caucasus Minor, is the second of the two main ranges of the Caucasus Mountains, of length about . The western portion of the Lesser Caucasus overlaps and converges with east Turkey an ...

References

L. Maruashvili,

Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, tr, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor ...

, V. 10, p. 675, Tbilisi, 1986. Volcanoes of Georgia (country) Mountains of Samtskhe-Javakheti region Mountains of Kvemo Kartli Extinct volcanoes of Europe Stratovolcanoes of Asia {{Kartli-geo-stub