New Athos or Akhali Atoni is a town in the Gudauta Municipality of Abkhazia situated some 22 km 0 abbr=on from Sokhumi by the shores of the Black Sea. The town was previously known under the Greek names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, and later Psyrtskha.