Khupati

Khupati lies on the eastern Black Sea coast in the country of the Laz, where steep wooded mountains approach the sea. Georgian sources of the eleventh and twelfth centuries use this name for the place later known as Hopa. An old tradition recalls a fortress of Khupati as a boundary point between neighbouring powers. Its coastal position placed the settlement along the narrow route between Trebizond and the lands of the eastern Black Sea.