Shavnabada ( ka, შავნაბადა) is a mountain and

extinct volcano A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...

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, to the southwest of Tbilisi. It is a part of the Highland of Southern ...

, a part of the

Lesser Caucasus The Lesser Caucasus, also called Caucasus Minor, is the second of the two main mountain ranges of Caucasus mountains, of length about . The western portion of the Lesser Caucasus overlaps and converges with east Turkey and northwest Iran. It runs ...

References

L. Maruashvili,

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

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