这是一个沉默的地区。茨欣瓦利地区 (萨马恰布洛) 在国际上被承认为格鲁吉亚的一部分，但目前处于俄罗斯军事占领之下。对于格鲁吉亚人来说，这是一道开放的伤口——这片祖传的土地上，中世纪的教堂矗立在空荡荡的村庄里，带刺的铁丝网将邻居分开。
St. George Church in Geri, a 6th-century Georgian Orthodox shrine, now in occupied territory.
The Liakhvi River valley, flowing 115km from Greater Caucasus glaciers through historically vital gorges.
Late medieval cross-domed churches of the Java region with characteristic octagonal domes.
Barbed wire and fences along the Administrative Boundary Line, evidence of the borderization process.
Greater Caucasus foothills rising from the Liakhvi valley at 860-870m elevation.
Archival image of Tskhinvali's historical center, the 'land of hornbeams' first chronicled in 1398.
