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– Abashidze, Aslan
– Abdushelishvili, Malkhaz
– Abkhaz alphabet
– Abkhaz language
– Abkhazi, Kote
– Abkhazia
– Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences
– Abkhazians – Abo Tbileli – Aeetes
– Aiba, Garri
– Ajaria–Ajaria crisis, 2004 – Aka Morchiladze
– Akhalkalaki
– Akhaltsikhe
– Akunin, Boris
– Alasania, Irakli
– Alaverdi (monastery)
– Ali Bey Al-Kabir – Ambrosi
– Amilakhvari, Dimitri
– Amtsakhara
– Ananiashvili, Nino – Ankvab, Alexander
– Anthem of Georgian SSR
– Antim Iverianul – April 9, 1989 Massacre
– Archaeopolis – Ardzinba, Vladislav
– Arshak I of Iberia – Artag of Iberia – Arveladze, Shota
– Asatiani, Lado
– August Uprising in Georgia
– Avalishvili, Zurab
– Azmaiparashvili, Zurab
– Azo (Georgian history)
– Bacurios Hiberios
– Bagapsh, Sergei
– Bagrat I the Little
– Bagrat III – Bagrat IV of Georgia
– Bagration, Jorge de – Bagration, Pyotr
– Bagrationi, Alexandre – Bagrationi, Teimuraz
– Bagrationi, Vakhushti – Bagrationi – Bakuriani
– Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
– Balanchine, George
– Baramidze, Giorgi
– Batonishvili
– Bats language
– Battle of Basian
– Battle of Chalagani – Battle of Didgori
– Battle of Digomi
– Battle of Krtsanisi
– Battle of Sasireti
– Battle of Shamkor
– Batumi
– Beria, Lavrenty – Bolnisi
– Borjomi
– Borodin, Alexander
– Burchuladze, Paata
– Burjanadze, Nino
– Caucasian Iberia
– Caucasus Airlines
– Chalybes
– Chanturia, Giorgi
– Chiaberashvili, Zurab
– Chiatura
– Chibirov, Ludwig
– Chiburdanidze, Maia
– Chikobava, Arnold
– Chikvaidze, Aleksandr
– Chilashvili, Levan
– Cholokashvili, Kakutsa
– Choloki River
– Chuburkhindji
– Coat of Arms of Georgia – Colchis
– Commonwealth of Independent States
– Communist Party of Abkhazia
– Communist Party of Georgia
– Constantine I of Imereti
– Culture of Georgia
– Dadeshkeliani, Konstantine
– Dadeshkeliani
– Dadiani, Andria
– Dadiani, Salome
– Dadiani
– David Soslani – David IV of Georgia
– David V of Georgia
– David VI Narin
– David VII Ulu
– David VIII of Georgia
– Demetre I
– Demetre II of Georgia
– Democratic Republic of Georgia
– Democratic Union for Revival
– Demographics of Georgia
– Diaokhi – Dideba zetsit kurtheuls – Didube metro station, Tbilisi – FC Dinamo Tbilisi
– Djergenia, Anri
– Dmanisi
– Dodashvili, Solomon
– Dogonadze, Revaz
– Duke, Vernon
– Dusheti
– Dvali, Gia
– Egrisi
– Elections in Abkhazia
– Elections in Georgia (country)
– Elections in South Ossetia
– Embryon – Empire of Trebizond
– Ensemble Georgika
– Erekle II
– Esebua, Kristine
– FC Tbilisi
– FC WIT Georgia
– Flag of Abkhazia
– Flag of Ajaria – Flag of Georgia (country)
– Flag of Georgian SSR – Foreign relations of Georgia
– Freedom Movement (Georgia)
– Gagra
– Gagulia, Gennady
– Gali – Gamkrelidze, David
– Gamkrelidze, Tamaz
– Gamsakhurdia, Konstantine
– Gamsakhurdia, Zviad
– Gaprindashvili, Nona
– Gegechkori, Evgeni
– Gelati Monastery
– Geography of Georgia (country) – Georgia (country)
– Georgia at the 1996 Summer Olympics
– Georgia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
– Georgia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
– Georgia legislative election, 2003
– Georgia legislative election, 2004
– Georgia national football team
-Georgia national rugby union team
– Georgia presidential election, 2004
– Georgia Tbilisi TV Broadcasting Tower – Georgia Train and Equip Program
– Georgian Academy of Sciences
– Georgian Airways
– Georgian alphabet
– Georgian Civil War
– Georgian Football Federation
– Georgian grammar
– Georgian Jews
– Georgian Labour Party
– Georgian language
– The Georgian Legion (disambiguation) – Georgian Military Road
– Georgian mythology
– Georgian National Airlines
– Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
– Georgian people
– Georgian SSR – Georgian Technical University
– Georgian United Communist Party – Georgian Uprising of Texel
– Georgian verb paradigm
– Georgian-Abkhaz conflict
– Georgian-Armenian War 1918
– Georgian-Byzantine wars – Georgian-Ossetian conflict
– Georgians in Iran
– Giorgadze, Igor
– Giorgi I of Georgia – Giorgi II of Georgia – Giorgi III of Georgia–Giorgi IV of Georgia–Giorgi VI of Georgia – Giorgi XI of Kartli – Golden Fleece
– Gongadze Georgiy R.
– Gordeli, Otar
– Gori – Green Party (Georgia)
– Gregory Pakourianos
– GUUAM – Gudauta
– Gugushvili, Bessarion
– Guria
– Gvaladze, Evgen
– History of Ajaria – History of Georgia
– Ibero-Caucasian languages
– Ikalto
– Ilia II
– Saint Ilia the Righteous – Imereti
– Industry will save Georgia
– Ingorokva, Pavle
– Intellectuals League of Georgia
– Ioseliani, Jaba
– Ioseliani, Otar – ISO 3166-2:GE
– Janashia, Simon
– Japaridze, Tedo
– Java, Georgia
– Javakhishvili, Ivane
– Jumber Patiashvili - Unity
– Jvari (disambiguation)
– Kakheti
– Kaladze, Kakha – Kancheli, Giya
– Kartli
– Kartl-Kakheti
– Kartveli, Alexander
– Kasrashvili, Makvala
– Keda, Georgia
– Kelesh Bey, Prince of Abkhazia – Kereselidze, Leo
– Ketevan the Martyr
– Khadjimba, Raul
– Khashba, Nodar
– Khevsureti
– Khizanishvili, Zurab
– Kitovani, Tengiz
– Kmara
– Kobuleti
– Kodori Valley
– Kokkai – Kokoity, Eduard
– Kostava, Merab
– Kutaisi
– Kvinitadze Giorgi
– Lagodekhi
– Lari (Georgia) – Laz language
– Laz people
– Lazic War
– Lentekhi
– LGBT rights in Georgia (Gay rights) - Likani
– List of cities in Georgia – List of foreign ministers of Abkhazia – List of Georgian Wars – List of Georgian writers – List of Georgians – List of political parties in Abkhazia – List of political parties in Georgia – List of political parties in South Ossetia – List of Prime Ministers of Abkhazia – List of Tbilisi metro stations – List of the Kings of Georgia
– March 9 Massacre in Tbilisi, 1956
– Marr, Nikolay
– Martvili
– Mayakovsky, Vladimir
– Mazniashvili, Giorgi
– Mchedlidze Guram
– Medea
– Megrelian language
– Melikishvili, Giorgi
– Melua, Katie
– Mengrelia – Merabishvili, Vano
– Meshech
– Meskheti
– Mestia
– Michael I of Imereti
– Mikheil, Prince of Abkhazia
– Miles, Richard (diplomat) – Military of Georgia
– Mirian I of Iberia
– Mirian II of Iberia
– Mirian III of Iberia
– Mislimov, Shirali
– Mkhedrioni
– Monastery of the Cross
– Mount Kazbek – Mtkvari – Mtskheta
– Music of Georgia
– Muskhelishvili, Nikoloz – Mzhavanadze, Vasily
– Nadarejshvili, Zurab
– Narikala fortress – National Democratic Alliance (Georgia)
– National Democratic Party (Georgia)
– National Movement - Democrats
– New Communist Party of Georgia
– New Right (Georgia)
– Niko the Boer
– Nino (Saint)
– Nogaideli, Zurab – Nutsubidze, Shalva
– Okudjava, Bulat – Oni, Georgia
– Ossetic language
– Otyrba, Gueorgui
– Ozgan, Konstantin
– Parajanov, Sergei – Parnavaz I of Iberia – Parnavaz II of Iberia
– Patarkatsishvili, Badri
– Pelasgian – People's Front (Georgia)
– Peradze, Grigol
– Peter the Iberian
– Pirosmanashvili, Niko
– Politics of Georgia (country) – Post-Soviet states
– Poti
– President of Georgia
– President of South Ossetia
– Prime Minister of Georgia
– Princes of Abkhazia
– Radde, Gustav
– Razikashvili, Levan
– Religion and religious freedom in Georgia
– Republican Party (Abkhazia)
– Revival (Abkhazia)
– Revived Communist Party of Georgia
– Rhadamistus
– Rightist Opposition
– Rioni River
– Robakidze, Grigol
– Roelofs, Sandra E. – Roman Catholicism in Georgia – Rose Revolution
– Roustan – Rustavi 2 TV – Rustavi
-Rustavi Choir
– Rusudan
– Sachkhere
– Samtredia
– Samtskhe-Javakheti – Sanaia, Giorgi
– Sanakoyev, Igor – Sarishvili-Chanturia, Irine
– Saurmag of Iberia – Sayat-Nova
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Screeve
– Shakryl, Tamara
– Shalikashvili, John -Shamba, Sergey
– Shartava, Zhiuli
– Shaumyan, Stepan – Shaw, Peter
– Shevardnadze, Eduard
-Shida Kartli
– Shorapani
– Shota Rustaveli State Prize
– Shota Rustaveli
– Shuakhevi
– Shushanik
– Sien
– Sigua, Tengiz
– Since Otar Left
– Sissaouri, Guivi
– Solomon I of Imereti
– Solomon II of Imereti
– South Caucasian languages
– South Caucasus
– South Ossetia
– Soviet Union
– Stalin, Joseph
– Subdivisions of Georgia – Sukhumi
– Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia
– Svan language
– Svaneti
– Takaishvili, Ekvtime
– Taktakishvili, Otar
– Tamar of Georgia
– Tao-Klarjeti
– Tariverdiev Mikael
– Tavisupleba
– Tbilisi
– Tbilisi hijacking incident
– Tbilisi Metro
– Tbilisi State University
– Telavi
– Telecommunications in Georgia Terek River – Tetri Giorgi
– Tetri
– Tetritsq'aro
– The Knight in the Panther's Skin
– Toradze, Alexander
– Tornike Eristavi – Transair Georgian Airline Shootdowns (September 1993)
– Trans-Caucasian Democratic Federative Republic – Transcaucasian SFSR
– Transportation in Georgia (country) – Treaty of Georgievsk
– Tsaava, Londer
– Tsereteli, Akaki
– Tsereteli, Giorgi
– Tsereteli, Grigol
– Tsereteli, Irakli
– Tsereteli, Mikheil
– Tsereteli, Vasil
– Tsereteli, Zurab
– Tskhinvali
– Tsq'altubo
– Tsugba, Vyacheslav
– Turashvili, David
– Union of Georgian Traditionalists
– United Abkhazia
– United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
– Unity (Georgia)
– Usupov, Raul
– Utupurshi – Uznadze, Dimitri
– Vakhtang II of Georgia
– Vakhtang III of Georgia
– Vakhtang VI of Kartli
– Vani
– Varshalomidze, Levan
– Vazha-Pshavela
– Voronya Cave
– Zhordania, Noe
– Zhvania, Zurab
– Zourabichvili, Salome
– Zugdidi
– Zviadists
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
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AbashaAbasha
Abasha is a town in western Georgia with a population of 6,400 . It is situated between the rivers of Abasha and Noghela, at 23m above sea level and is located some to the west of Tbilisi. The settlement of Abasha acquired the status of a town in 1964 and currently functions as an administrative...
– Abashidze, Aslan
Aslan Abashidze
Aslan Abashidze was the leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic in western Georgia from 1991 to May 5, 2004. He resigned under the pressure of the central Georgian government and mass opposition rallies during the 2004 Adjara crisis, and has since lived in Moscow, Russia...
– Abdushelishvili, Malkhaz
Malkhaz Abdushelishvili
Malkhaz Abdushelishvili was a famous Georgian scientist, one of the founders of the Georgian scientific school of Anthropology, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.He was born in 1926, in Tbilisi...
– Abkhaz alphabet
Abkhaz alphabet
The Abkhaz alphabet is an alphabet for the Abkhaz language which consists of 62 letters.Abkhaz did not become a written language until the 19th century. Hitherto, Abkhazians, especially princes, had been using Greek , Georgian , and partially Turkish languages...
– Abkhaz language
Abkhaz language
Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mainly by the Abkhaz people. It is the official language of Abkhazia where around 100,000 people speak it. Furthermore, it is spoken by thousands of members of the Abkhazian diaspora in Turkey, Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara, Syria, Jordan...
– Abkhazi, Kote
Kote Abkhazi
Prince Konstantine "Kote" Abkhazi , was a Georgian military officer and politician. During the Imperial Russian rule, he was a general in the tsar's army, and a recognized leader of the liberal nobility of Georgia. After the Sovietization of Georgia, he emerged as one of the leaders of an...
– Abkhazia
Abkhazia
Abkhazia is a disputed political entity on the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus.Abkhazia considers itself an independent state, called the Republic of Abkhazia or Apsny...
– Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences
Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences
Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences , independent scientific and educational organization, was founded in 1995, in Tbilisi , by the group of famous scientists - refugees from Abkhazia...
– Abkhazians – Abo Tbileli – Aeetes
Aeëtes
In Greek mythology, Aeëtes , , , was a King of Colchis , son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis , brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus...
– Aiba, Garri
Garri Aiba
Garri Aiba was an opposition leader in Republic of Abkhazia at the time of his murder. He died when his car came under fire on June 9, 2004.-History:...
– Ajaria–Ajaria crisis, 2004 – Aka Morchiladze
Aka Morchiladze
Aka Morchiladze is the pen name of George Akhvlediani , a Georgian writer and literary historian who authored some of the best-selling prose of post-Soviet Georgian literature...
– Akhalkalaki
Akhalkalaki
Akhalkalaki is a small city in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 60,975. Akhalkalaki lies on the edge of the Javakheti Volcanic Plateau. The city is located about 30 km from the border with Turkey. 90 percent of the city's population are ethnic Armenians...
– Akhaltsikhe
Akhaltsikhe
Akhaltsikhe is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates from Georgian as "new fortress".- History...
– Akunin, Boris
Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili , a Russian writer. He is an essayist, literary translator and writer of detective fiction.-Life and career:...
– Alasania, Irakli
Irakli Alasania
Irakli Alasania is a Georgian politician and former diplomat. He was Georgia’s Ambassador to the United Nations from September 11, 2006, until December 4, 2008. His previous assignments include Chairman of the Government of Abkhazia and the President of Georgia’s aide in the Georgian-Abkhaz talks...
– Alaverdi (monastery)
Alaverdi (monastery)
Alaverdi Monastery is a Georgian Orthodox monastery located 25 km from Akhmeta, in the Kakheti region of Eastern Georgia. Parts of the monastery date back to 6th century...
– Ali Bey Al-Kabir – Ambrosi
Ambrosi
Ambrosius was a Georgian religious figure and scholar who served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1921 to 1927...
– Amilakhvari, Dimitri
Dimitri Amilakhvari
Prince Dimitri Zedguinidze-Amilakhvari, more commonly known as Dimitri Amilakhvari was a French military officer and Lieutenant Colonel of the French Foreign Legion, of Georgian origin who played an influential role in the French Resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II, and became an...
– Amtsakhara
Amtsakhara
Amtsakhara is an important political movement and party in Abkhazia, a de facto independent republic in Caucasus whose independence is recognized by Russia and Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru but whom most of the international community considers as a part of Georgia.Amtsakhara originally formed as an...
– Ananiashvili, Nino – Ankvab, Alexander
Alexander Ankvab
Alyksandr Zolotinska-ipa Ankvab is an Abkhaz politician and businessman who has been President of Abkhazia since 2011. Under President Sergei Bagapsh, he previously served as Prime Minister from 2005 to 2010 and Vice-President from 2010 to 2011....
– Anthem of Georgian SSR
Anthem of Georgian SSR
The State Anthem of the Georgian SSR was the national anthem of Georgia when it was a republic of the Soviet Union and known as the Georgian SSR.-Background:...
– Antim Iverianul – April 9, 1989 Massacre
April 9, 1989 Massacre
The April 9 tragedy refers to the events in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, on April 9, 1989, when an anti-Soviet demonstration was dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries...
– Archaeopolis – Ardzinba, Vladislav
Vladislav Ardzinba
Vladislav Grigori-ipa Ardzinba was the first President of Abkhazia. A historian by education, Ardzinba led Abkhazia to de facto independence in the 1992-1993 War with Georgia, but its de jure independence from Georgia remained internationally unrecognised during Ardzinba's two terms as President...
– Arshak I of Iberia – Artag of Iberia – Arveladze, Shota
Shota Arveladze
Shota Arveladze is a former Georgian professional football player and currently the manager of Kayserispor. He is Georgia’s all-time top scorer with 291 goals in his 410 league games for his clubs and 26 goals during his 61 games on the national team...
– Asatiani, Lado
Lado Asatiani
Vladimir Asatiani was a Georgian poet. His poetic career, lasting only for seven years, made him one of the best-loved Georgian poets of the 20th century....
– August Uprising in Georgia
August Uprising in Georgia
The August Uprising was an unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic from late August to early September 1924....
– Avalishvili, Zurab
Zurab Avalishvili
Zurab Avalishvili was a Georgian historian, jurist and diplomat in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia . He was also known as Zurab Davidovich Avalov in a Russian manner....
– Azmaiparashvili, Zurab
Zurab Azmaiparashvili
Zurab Azmaiparashvili is a chess Grandmaster from Georgia. In the September 2010 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2637, making him 114th in the world and Georgia's number two.-Career:He became a Grandmaster in 1988...
– Azo (Georgian history)
Azo (Georgian history)
For other uses, see AzoAzo also known as Azon was a legendary ruler of Georgians of ancient Kartli claimed by medieval Georgian annals to have been installed by Alexander the Great, king of Macedon .- Medieval tradition :His name and origin are differently given by the medieval Georgian chronicles...
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Bachkovo MonasteryBachkovo Monastery
The Bachkovo Monastery , archaically the Petritsoni Monastery or Monastery of the Mother of God Petritzonitissa in Bulgaria is an important monument of Christian architecture and one of the largest and oldest Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Europe...
– Bacurios Hiberios
Bacurios Hiberios
Bacurius was a Roman general and a member of the royal family of Iberia mentioned by several Greco-Roman authors of the 4th and 5th centuries. It is accepted, but not universally, that all these refer to the same person, an Iberian "king" or "prince", who joined the Roman military ranks...
– Bagapsh, Sergei
Sergei Bagapsh
Sergei Uasyl-ipa Bagapsh was the second President of the Republic of Abkhazia. He was Prime Minister from 1997 to 1999 and was later elected as President in 2005. He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election...
– Bagrat I the Little
Bagrat I the Little
Bagrat I the Little , from the Bagrationi dynasty, was king of western Georgia from 1329 until 1330....
– Bagrat III – Bagrat IV of Georgia
Bagrat IV of Georgia
Bagrat IV , of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the King of Georgia from 1027 to 1072. During his long and eventful reign, Bagrat sought to repress the great nobility and to secure Georgia's sovereignty from the Byzantine and Seljuqid empires...
– Bagration, Jorge de – Bagration, Pyotr
Pyotr Bagration
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was a general of the Russian army. He was a descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations.- Life :...
– Bagrationi, Alexandre – Bagrationi, Teimuraz
Teimuraz Bagrationi
Teimuraz Bagrationi otherwise known as tsarevich Teimuraz Georgievich was a Georgian prince and scholar primarily known as an author of the first critical history in Georgian as well as for his work to popularize interest in the history and culture of Georgia and preserve its treasures.Prince...
– Bagrationi, Vakhushti – Bagrationi – Bakuriani
Bakuriani
Bakuriani is a skiing resort in the Borjomi district of Georgia. It is located on the northern slope of the Trialeti Range, at an elevation of 1,700 meters above sea level....
– Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline is a long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey,...
– Balanchine, George
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
– Baramidze, Giorgi
Giorgi Baramidze
Giorgi Baramidze was born in 1968, in Tbilisi. He graduated from Technical University of Georgia, majoring in chemical technology. He has conducted scientific researches and is the author of several academic publications. Giorgi Baramidze was one of the founders and key members of the anti-Soviet...
– Batonishvili
Batonishvili
Batonishvili was a title for princes and princesses of the blood royal in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, and was suffixed to the Christian name e.g., Alexandre Batonishvili, Ioane Batonishvili...
– Bats language
Bats language
Bats is the language of the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975....
– Battle of Basian
Battle of Basian
The Battle of Basian was fought, in the 13th century, between the armies of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Seljuqid Sultanate of Rüm in the Basian vale 60 km northeast of the city of Erzurum in what is now northeast Republic of Turkey. The battle is variously dated between 1202 and 1205, but...
– Battle of Chalagani – Battle of Didgori
Battle of Didgori
The Battle of Didgori was fought between the armies of the Kingdom of Georgia and the crumbling Great Seljuq Empire at the place of Didgori, 40 km west of Tbilisi, the modern-day capital of Georgia, on August 12, 1121...
– Battle of Digomi
Battle of Digomi
The Battle of Digomi was part of a campaign launched by the Georgian king Simon I of Kartli aimed at the liberation of the capital Tbilisi from the Persians in 1567....
– Battle of Krtsanisi
Battle of Krtsanisi
The Battle of Krtsanisi was fought between Persian and Georgian armies at the place of Krtsanisi near Tbilisi, Georgia, from September 8 to September 11, 1795, as part of the war intended by the Persian ruler Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar as a reprisal for King Heraclius II of Georgia’s alliance with...
– Battle of Sasireti
Battle of Sasireti
The Battle of Sasireti took place in 1042 at the village of Sasireti in the present day Shida Kartli region, not far from the town of Kaspi, during the civil war in the Kingdom of Georgia...
– Battle of Shamkor
Battle of Shamkor
Battle of Shamkor was fought on June 1, 1195 near the city of Shamkor, Arran , the Battle of Shamkor was a major victory won by the Georgian army, commanded by David Soslan, over the army of the Azerbaijani Atabeg Abu Bakr.The battle was fought as part of several conflicts between the Atabeg State...
– Batumi
Batumi
Batumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. Sometimes considered Georgia's second capital, with a population of 121,806 , Batumi serves as an important port and a commercial center. It is situated in a subtropical zone, rich in...
– Beria, Lavrenty – Bolnisi
Bolnisi
Bolnisi , is a city in the country of Georgia, located in the Kvemo Kartli region and capital of the Bolnisi district. Currently has an estimated 13,800 inhabitants....
– Borjomi
Borjomi
Borjomi is a resort town in south-central Georgia with a population estimated at 14,445. It is one of the districts of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region and is situated in the northwestern part of the region in the picturesque Borjomi Gorge on the eastern edge of the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park...
– Borodin, Alexander
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music...
– Burchuladze, Paata
Paata Burchuladze
Paata Burchuladze is a Georgian bass opera singer.Born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory and began his operatic career at Tbilisi and Moscow, with subsequent appearances at Covent Garden , Salzburg Festival under Herbert von Karajan , Metropolitan Opera in...
– Burjanadze, Nino
Nino Burjanadze
Nino Burjanadze is a Georgian politician and lawyer who served as Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia from November 2001 to June 2008...
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Catholicos-Patriarch of All GeorgiaCatholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia
Catholicos–Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos–Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek I...
– Caucasian Iberia
Caucasian Iberia
Iberia , also known as Iveria , was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli , corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia...
– Caucasus Airlines
Caucasus Airlines
Caucasus Airlines was a regional airline based in Georgia which served domestic destinations and countries in the region.- History :The airline was established in 2001 and started operations in November 2002. The airline imposed a voluntary suspension of services in 2004 and ceased operations...
– Chalybes
Chalybes
The Chalybes or Chaldoi were a tribe of proto-Georgians. Classical Antiquity credited with the invention of ferrous metallurgy....
– Chanturia, Giorgi
Giorgi Chanturia
Giorgi Chanturia was a Georgian politician and the National Democratic Party leader who was murdered in Tbilisi, Georgia in December 1994....
– Chiaberashvili, Zurab
Zurab Chiaberashvili
Zurab Tchiaberashvili is a Georgian politician and diplomat.-Education:Zurab Tchiaberashvili studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Tbilisi State University and the Institute of Philosophy, Georgian Academy of Sciences , and got Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Tbilisi State University...
– Chiatura
Chiatura
Chiatura is a city in the Imereti region of Western Georgia. In 1989, it had a population of about 30,000. It is inland, in a mountain valley on the banks of the Kvirila River, and since 1879 has been a major centre of manganese production in the Caucasus. There is a rail link to transport...
– Chibirov, Ludwig
Ludwig Chibirov
Lyudvig Alekseyevich Chibirov was the Chairman of the Parliament and later, following inaugural elections the first President of South Ossetia. Born in 1932, Chibirov is a former member of the South Ossetian Parliament. Prior to the elections in 1996, he had been South Ossetia's head of state...
– Chiburdanidze, Maia
Maia Chiburdanidze
Maia Chiburdanidze is a Georgian chess grandmaster, and the seventh Women's World Chess Champion. She is the only chess player in history who has won nine Chess Olympiads....
– Chikobava, Arnold
Arnold Chikobava
Arnold Stepanovich Chikobava was a Georgian linguist and philologist best known as for his contributions to the Caucasian studies as well as one of the most active critics of Nicholas Marr's controversial monogenetic "Japhetic" theory of language.Chikobava was born in the small village...
– Chikvaidze, Aleksandr
Aleksandr Chikvaidze
Alexander Davidovich Chikvaidze is a former Soviet, Russian, and Georgian diplomat. Chikvaidze served as the Soviet ambassador to Kenya from 1983 to 1985, then as Soviet and Russian ambassador to the Netherlands from 1988 to 1992. He was next named the foreign minister of Georgia, serving as...
– Chilashvili, Levan
Levan Chilashvili
Levan Chilashvili was a famous Georgian archaeologist and historian, an academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Professor....
– Cholokashvili, Kakutsa
Kakutsa Cholokashvili
Kaikhosro Cholokashvili commonly known as Kakutsa was a Georgian nobleman and military commander, regarded as a National Hero of Georgia...
– Choloki River
Choloki River
The Choloki River in Georgia forms the border between the autonomous province of Ajaria and the province of Guria. For a time in the nineteenth century it formed the border between Turkey and Imperial Russia....
– Chuburkhindji
Chuburkhindji
Chuburkhindji is a village in the Gali District of Abkhazia. As is the case in the rest of the district its population is almost exclusively Mingrelian .The village is the place of regular quadripartite meetings known informally...
– Coat of Arms of Georgia – Colchis
Colchis
In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis was an ancient Georgian state kingdom and region in Western Georgia, which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgian nation.The Kingdom of Colchis contributed significantly to the development of medieval Georgian...
– Commonwealth of Independent States
Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union....
– Communist Party of Abkhazia
Communist Party of Abkhazia
The Communist Party of Abkhazia is a political party in the Georgian break-away republic of Abkhazia. The party leader is Lev Shamba.The CPA was founded in March 1921 with the demand of a separate Abkhaz Soviet Republic. It was then led by E. Eshba. Eshba had formed a Bolshevik...
– Communist Party of Georgia
Communist Party of Georgia
Communist Party of Georgia is a communist political party in Georgia. The party was founded on February 23, 1992 as the Socialist Labour Party. It was registered at the Ministry of Justice on February 27, 1998. In the 1992 elections it won four MPs. During the period 1994-1995 it maintained a...
– Constantine I of Imereti
Constantine I of Imereti
Constantine I of Imereti , from the House of Bagrationi, was king of the western Georgian kingdom of Imereti from 1293 to 1327....
– Culture of Georgia
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Dadeshkeliani, KatiKati Dadeshkeliani
Nino Dadeshkeliani , a Georgian author, was the daughter of General Prince Alexander Dadeshkeliani and Princess Eristavi. Her father, an inspector of State Forests, was assassinated in 1909....
– Dadeshkeliani, Konstantine
Konstantine Dadeshkeliani
Konstantine Dadeshkeliani was the last prince of the western Georgian mountainous region of Svaneti from 1841 to 1857....
– Dadeshkeliani
Dadeshkeliani
Dadeshkeliani or Dadishkeliani was an aristocratic family from the mountainous western Georgian province of Svaneti. They ruled the Principality of Svaneti from the 1720s to 1857....
– Dadiani, Andria
Andria Dadiani
Andria Dadiani , , known in Russia as Andrey Davidovich Dadian-Mingrelsky , was a Georgian nobleman and a chess player....
– Dadiani, Salome
Salome Dadiani
Salome Dadiani was a Georgian princess and the daughter of David Dadiani , Prince of Mingrelia. She accompanied her mother Ekaterine, the last ruling Princess of Mingrelia in her visit to Paris in 1868 and married Prince Archille Murat , the grandson of Marshal Joachim Murat, on 13 May 1868...
– Dadiani
Dadiani
Dadiani was a Georgian family of nobles, dukes and princes, and a ruling dynasty of the western Georgian province of Samegrelo.- The House of Dadiani :...
– David Soslani – David IV of Georgia
David IV of Georgia
David IV "the Builder", also known as David II , of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king of Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125....
– David V of Georgia
David V of Georgia
David V , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Georgia c. 1154/5.He was an elder son of King Demetre I. Fearing that Demetre would make his younger son Giorgi an heir to the throne, David attempted a revolt in 1130...
– David VI Narin
David VI Narin
David VI Narin , from the Bagrationi dynasty, was king of Georgia in 1245–1293. From 1259 to 1293, he ruled the kingdom of Imereti under the name David I as a vassal state of Georgia.-Life:...
– David VII Ulu
David VII Ulu
David VII Ulu , from the Bagrationi dynasty, was king of Georgia in 1247–1270. He reigned over the eastern part of the country from 1259 to 1270.-Life:David was an illegitimate son of King Giorgi IV Lasha by a non-noble woman...
– David VIII of Georgia
David VIII of Georgia
David VIII , from the Bagrationi dynasty, was king of Georgia in 1293–1311.Eldest son of Demetre II the Self-sacrificing, he was appointed by the Ilkhan ruler Gaikhatu as king of Georgia as reward for his military service during the Rümelian uprising in 1293...
– Demetre I
Demetre I
Demetrius I , from the Bagrationi dynasty, was King of Georgia from 1125 to 1156. He is also known as a poet.-Life:Demetrius was the eldest son of King David the Builder by his first wife Rusudan...
– Demetre II of Georgia
Demetre II of Georgia
Saint King Demetrius II the Self-sacrificer , from the Bagrationi dynasty, was king of Georgia in 1270–1289.-Life:...
– Democratic Republic of Georgia
Democratic Republic of Georgia
The Democratic Republic of Georgia , 1918–1921, was the first modern establishment of a Republic of Georgia.The DRG was created after the collapse of the Russian Empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917...
– Democratic Union for Revival
Democratic Union for Revival
The Democratic Union for Revival is a political party in Georgia.At the last legislative elections, on 28 March 2004, the party won 6.0% of the popular vote....
– Demographics of Georgia
Demographics of Georgia
The Demographics of Georgia is about the demographic features of the population of Georgia, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population....
– Diaokhi – Dideba zetsit kurtheuls – Didube metro station, Tbilisi – FC Dinamo Tbilisi
FC Dinamo Tbilisi
FC Dinamo Tbilisi is a Georgian football team, based in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.Dinamo Tbilisi was one of the most prominent clubs in Soviet football and a major contender in the Soviet Top League almost immediately after it was established in 1936...
– Djergenia, Anri
Anri Djergenia
Anri Mikhail-ipa Jergenia has been one of the leading politicians of the internationally unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia since it achieved de facto independence from Georgia...
– Dmanisi
Dmanisi
Dmanisi is a townlet and archaeological site in Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera.- History :...
– Dodashvili, Solomon
Solomon Dodashvili
Solomon Dodashvili also known as Solomon Ivanovich Dodaev-Mogarsky was a Georgian philosopher, journalist, historian, grammarian, belletrist and enlightener....
– Dogonadze, Revaz
Revaz Dogonadze
Revaz Dogonadze was a notable Georgian scientist, Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences , Dr.Sc. , Professor, one of the founders of quantum electrochemistry,-Life and works:...
– Duke, Vernon
Vernon Duke
Vernon Duke was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love" with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April in Paris" with lyrics by E. Y...
– Dusheti
Dusheti
Dusheti is a town in Georgia, situated in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, 54 km northeast of the nation’s capital of Tbilisi.Dusheti is located on both banks of the small mountainous river of Dushetis-Khevi at the foothills of the Greater Caucasus crest at an elevation of 900 m above sea level...
– Dvali, Gia
Gia Dvali
Georgi Dvali is a professor of physics at LMU Munich and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. He received his Ph.D. in high energy physics and cosmology from Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 1992...
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Economy of GeorgiaEconomy of Georgia
Despite the severe damage the economy of Georgia suffered due to civil strife in the 1990s, Georgia, with the help of the IMF and World Bank, has made substantial economic gains since 2000, achieving robust GDP growth and curtailing inflation....
– Egrisi
Egrisi
Lazica or Egrisi in Georgian |Georgia]], named after the Laz tribe, which at some time dominated the local ruling élite.The kingdom flourished between the 6th century BC and the 7th century AD. It covered part of the territory of the former kingdom Colchis and subjugated the territory of modern...
– Elections in Abkhazia
Elections in Abkhazia
Abkhazia elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five term by the people. The People's Assembly has 35 members, elected for a five year term in single seat constituencies....
– Elections in Georgia (country)
Elections in Georgia (country)
Elections in Georgia gives information on elections and election results in Georgia. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office...
– Elections in South Ossetia
Elections in South Ossetia
Elections in South Ossetia gives information on elections and election results in South Ossetia.South Ossetia elects on national level a head of state - the President - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five term by the people...
– Embryon – Empire of Trebizond
Empire of Trebizond
The Empire of Trebizond, founded in April 1204, was one of three Byzantine successor states of the Byzantine Empire. However, the creation of the Empire of Trebizond was not directly related to the capture of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, rather it had broken away from the Byzantine Empire...
– Ensemble Georgika
Ensemble Georgika
the Ensemble Georgika was formed in Tbilisi in 1989, the thirteen members of Ensemble Georgika, likely the first group of their kind to exist without government funding or support, grew up among a variety of Georgian folk music and ritual dances....
– Erekle II
Erekle II
Erekle II was a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi Dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798. In the contemporary Persian sources he is referred to as Erekli Khan, while Russians knew him as Irakli...
– Esebua, Kristine
Kristine Esebua
Kristine Esebua is a sportsperson from the nation of Georgia. She competes in archery.-2004 Summer Olympics:Esebua represented Georgia at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 22nd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 636. In the first round of elimination, she faced...
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Farnadjom of IberiaFarnadjom of Iberia
P'arnajom or P'arnajob was a king of Iberia from 109 to 90 BC, the fourth in the P'arnavaziani line. He is known exclusively from the royal list included in the medieval Georgian chronicles....
– FC Tbilisi
FC Tbilisi
FC Tbilisi is a Georgian football team, which were playing in the capital, Tbilisi. The club were playing their home games at Olimpi Stadium. FC Tbilisi were renamed Olimpi Rustavi after merging with second division club FC Rustavi...
– FC WIT Georgia
FC WIT Georgia
FC WIT Georgia is a Georgian football team, playing in the capital, Tbilisi. The team is sponsored by WIT Georgia Ltd, , a pet food, accessories, and human and veterinary pharmaceuticals import company. WIT stands for World Innovation Technologies...
– Flag of Abkhazia
Flag of Abkhazia
There are currently two entities claiming to be the government of Abkhazia, the partially recognised Republic of Abkhazia and the pro-Georgia Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.-Republic of Abkhazia:...
– Flag of Ajaria – Flag of Georgia (country)
Flag of Georgia (country)
The official flag of Georgia is the "five-cross flag", restored to official use on January 14, 2004, after a break of some 500 years...
– Flag of Georgian SSR – Foreign relations of Georgia
Foreign relations of Georgia
Georgia's location, nestled between the Black Sea, Russia, and Turkey, gives it strategic importance far beyond its size. It is developing as the gateway from the Black Sea to the Caucasus and the larger Caspian region, but also serves as a buffer between Russia and Turkey...
– Freedom Movement (Georgia)
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Gabadadze, GregoryGregory Gabadadze
Gregory Gabadadze is a Georgian theoretical physicist. He is currently member of the Department of Physics at New York University. He is known for the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati multidimensional braneworld model of gravity, also known as DGP model....
– Gagra
Gagra
Gagra is a town in Abkhazia, Georgia’s breakaway republic, sprawling for 5 km on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains...
– Gagulia, Gennady
Gennady Gagulia
Gennady Gagulia is a two-time former Prime Minister of Abkhazia and the current head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.-Early career:...
– Gali – Gamkrelidze, David
David Gamkrelidze
David Gamkrelidze or Davit Gamqrelidze , is a Georgian politician, Leader of the New Rights Party of Georgia, Member of Parliament since 1999, Member of Committee for Defense and Security, Chairman of the Centre-Right Opposition Group in the Parliament of Georgia...
– Gamkrelidze, Tamaz
Tamaz Gamkrelidze
Tamaz Valeryanovich Gamkrelidze is a distinguished Georgian linguist, orientalist public benefactor and Hittitologist, Academician and President of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , Doctor of Sciences , Professor .Gamkrelidze was born in Kutaisi, Georgian SSR...
– Gamsakhurdia, Konstantine
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian writer and public figure, who, along with Mikheil Javakhishvili, is considered to be one of the most influential Georgian novelists of the 20th century...
– Gamsakhurdia, Zviad
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Zviad Gamsakhurdia was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era...
– Gaprindashvili, Nona
Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili is a Georgian chess player, the sixth women's world chess champion , and first female Grandmaster. Born in Zugdidi, Georgia , she was the strongest female player of her generation....
– Gegechkori, Evgeni
Evgeni Gegechkori
Evgeni Gegechkori was a Georgian politician and Social Democratic revolutionary.He first entered the leftist student movement in 1903 during his studies at the Moscow University and soon joined the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party...
– Gelati Monastery
Gelati Monastery
The Monastery of Gelati is a monastic complex near Kutaisi, Imereti, western Georgia. It contains the Church of the Virgin founded by the King of Georgia David the Builder in 1106, and the 13th-century churches of St George and St Nicholas....
– Geography of Georgia (country) – Georgia (country)
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
– Georgia at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Georgia at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Georgia competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States...
– Georgia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Georgia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Georgia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.- Bronze:* Vladimir Chanturia — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight * Giorgi Vazagashvili — Judo, Men's Half Lightweight...
– Georgia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Georgia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Georgia competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-Medalists:-Archery:Women's individual:* Kristine Esebua — 40th place* Khatuna Narimanidze — 51st place-Athletics:Men's 110 metre hurdles:...
– Georgia legislative election, 2003
Georgia legislative election, 2003
Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of Georgia on November 2, 2003. According to statistics released by the Georgian Election Commission, the elections were won by a combination of parties supporting President Eduard Shevardnadze....
– Georgia legislative election, 2004
Georgia legislative election, 2004
Legislative elections were held in the Georgia on March 28, 2004. The elections followed the annulment of the November 2003 legislative elections, which were widely believed to have been rigged by the former President, Eduard Shevardnadze...
– Georgia national football team
Georgia national football team
The Georgia national football team is the national association football team of Georgia and is controlled by the Georgian Football Federation. The Georgian team's first match took place in 1990, while Georgia was still part of the Soviet Union. The team have attempted to qualify for each major...
-Georgia national rugby union team
Georgia national rugby union team
The Georgia national rugby union team represents Georgia in rugby union. The team's nickname, The Lelos, comes from lelo burti, a traditional Georgian sport with strong similarities to rugby. Lelo has been adopted as the Georgian word for "try"...
– Georgia presidential election, 2004
Georgia presidential election, 2004
A presidential election was held in the Republic of Georgia on January 4, 2004. The election followed the resignation of former President Eduard Shevardnadze. As expected, the main opposition leader, Mikhail Saakashvili, was soon shown by exit polls to be heading for an overwhelming victory...
– Georgia Tbilisi TV Broadcasting Tower – Georgia Train and Equip Program
Georgia Train and Equip Program
The Georgia Train and Equip Program was an American-sponsored 18-month, $64-million program aimed at increasing the capabilities of the Georgian armed forces by training and equipping four 600-man battalions with light weapons, vehicles and communications...
– Georgian Academy of Sciences
Georgian Academy of Sciences
The Georgian National Academy of Sciences is a main learned society of the Georgia. It was named Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences until November 1990...
– Georgian Airways
Georgian Airways
Georgian Airways is the national airline of Georgia based in the capital, Tbilisi. It is a privately owned airline operating services from Georgia to destinations mainly in Europe and Western Asia. It is based at the Tbilisi International Airport....
– Georgian alphabet
Georgian alphabet
The Georgian alphabet is the writing system used to write the Georgian language and other Kartvelian languages , and occasionally other languages of the Caucasus such as Ossetic and Abkhaz during the 1940s...
– Georgian Civil War
Georgian Civil War
The Georgian Civil War consisted of inter-ethnic and intranational conflicts in the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia , as well as the violent military coup d'etat of December 21, 1991 - January 6, 1992 against the first democratically elected President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia and his...
– Georgian Football Federation
Georgian Football Federation
The Georgian Football Federation was founded in 1936. It was part of the Football Federation of Soviet Union from 1936 to 1989. The Independent Georgian Football Federation was established on 15 February 1990. It is the governing body of football in Georgia. It organizes the football league, the...
– Georgian grammar
Georgian grammar
The Georgian language belongs to the South Caucasian or Kartvelian family. Some of its characteristics are akin to those of Slavic languages such as its system of verbal aspect, but Georgian grammar is remarkably different from Indo-European languages and has many distinct features, such as split...
– Georgian Jews
Georgian Jews
The Georgian Jews are from the nation of Georgia, in the Caucasus...
– Georgian Labour Party
Georgian Labour Party
The Georgian Labour Party is a political party in Georgia. The party is led by its founder Shalva Natelashvili.Its main goal is to make Georgia a democratic country and eventually to become a member of the European Union...
– Georgian language
Georgian language
Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...
– The Georgian Legion (disambiguation) – Georgian Military Road
Georgian Military Road
The Georgian Military Road is the historic name for a major route through the Caucasus from Georgia to Russia. Alternative routes across the mountains include the Ossetian Military Road and the Transkam.-Route:...
– Georgian mythology
Georgian mythology
The article is about the mythology of the country of Georgia.Georgian myths and legends are preserved mainly as popular tales. Many of them have eventually fused with Christian legends after Christianization of Georgia more than fifteen centuries ago....
– Georgian National Airlines
Georgian National Airlines
Sky Georgia is an airline from Tbilisi, Georgia, operating out of Tbilisi International Airport.- History :...
– Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
The Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church is an autocephalous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since the 4th century AD, Georgian Orthodoxy has been the state religion of Georgia, and it remains the country's largest religious institution....
– Georgian people
Georgian people
The Georgians are an ethnic group that have originated in Georgia, where they constitute a majority of the population. Large Georgian communities are also present throughout Russia, European Union, United States, and South America....
– Georgian SSR – Georgian Technical University
Georgian Technical University
Georgian Technical University – GTU , now Technical University of Georgia is main and largest technical university of Georgia, it is located in the capital city of Tbilisi.- History :...
– Georgian United Communist Party – Georgian Uprising of Texel
Georgian Uprising of Texel
The Georgian Uprising on Texel was an insurrection by the 882nd Infantry Battalion Königin Tamara of the Georgian Legion of the German Army stationed on the German occupied Dutch island of Texel . The battalion was made up of 800 Georgians and 400 Germans, with mainly German officers...
– Georgian verb paradigm
Georgian verb paradigm
Georgian verb conjugation remains a tough subject even for the people who have been studying the language for a while. Even after studying over hundreds of verbs, one may still encounter a new verb whose conjugation deviates from what the person has learnt...
– Georgian-Abkhaz conflict
Georgian-Abkhaz conflict
The Georgian–Abkhazian conflict refers to the ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians in Abkhazia, which is presently a de facto independent partially recognized republic...
– Georgian-Armenian War 1918
Georgian-Armenian War 1918
Georgian-Armenian War was a border war fought in 1918 between the Democratic Republic of Georgia and the Democratic Republic of Armenia over the parts of the then-disputed provinces of Lori, Javakheti, and Borchalo district, which had been historically Armeno-Georgian marchlands, but were largely...
– Georgian-Byzantine wars – Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Georgian-Ossetian conflict
The Georgian–Ossetian conflict refers to the ethno-political conflict in Georgia's autonomous region of South Ossetia, which evolved in 1989 and developed into a 1991–1992 South Ossetia War. Despite a declared ceasefire and numerous peace efforts, the conflict remains unresolved, and minor armed...
– Georgians in Iran
Georgians in Iran
Iranian Georgians are an ethnic group living in Iran. Today's Georgia was a subject to the Safavid empire in 17th century and Shah Abbas I relocated communities of Christian, Muslim, and Georgian Jews as part of his programs to develop industrial economy, strengthen the military and populate newly...
– Giorgadze, Igor
Igor Giorgadze
Igor Giorgadze is a Georgian politician, a former Minister of State Security and the current leader of the `´Samartlianoba´´ Party.- Career :...
– Giorgi I of Georgia – Giorgi II of Georgia – Giorgi III of Georgia–Giorgi IV of Georgia–Giorgi VI of Georgia – Giorgi XI of Kartli – Golden Fleece
Golden Fleece
In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the gold-haired winged ram, which can be procured in Colchis. It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest by order of King Pelias for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus...
– Gongadze Georgiy R.
Georgiy R. Gongadze
Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze was a Ukrainian journalist of Georgian origin who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000.The circumstances of his death became a national scandal and a focus for protests against the government of the then President, Leonid Kuchma...
– Gordeli, Otar
Otar Gordeli
Otar Gordeli was a composer in the country of Georgia.Gordeli was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He was educated at the Tbilisi State Conservatory.- Works :* Piano Quintet...
– Gori – Green Party (Georgia)
Green Party (Georgia)
The Green Party is a political party in Georgia. It is led by Gia Gachechiladze.Its success has varied - having 11 out of 235 members of parliament in 1992 and having been art of the governing coalition in 1995.When it stood independently in 1999 it only received 0.55% of the vote...
– Gregory Pakourianos
Gregory Pakourianos
Gregory Pakourianos was a politician and military commander in the Byzantine service. He was the founder of the Monastery of the Mother of God Petritzonitissa in Bachkovo and author of its typikon...
– GUUAM – Gudauta
Gudauta
Gudauta is a town in Abkhazia and a centre of the eponymous district. It is situated on the Black Sea, 37 km northwest to Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia....
– Gugushvili, Bessarion
Bessarion Gugushvili
Besarion Gugushvili is a Georgian politician and a former Prime Minister of the country.Gugushvili was appointed prime minister, on August 26, 1991, after Tengiz Sigua resigned in August 1991. The closest associate of Georgia’s former President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he followed him into exile after...
– Guria
Guria
Guria is a region in Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. The region has a population of 143,357 and Ozurgeti is a regional capital.-Geography:...
– Gvaladze, Evgen
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Healthcare in Georgia – HeretiHereti
Hereti was a historic province in the medieval Caucasus on the Georgian-Albanian frontier. It roughly corresponds to the southeastern corner of Georgia's Kakheti region and a portion of Azerbaijan's northwestern districts.-History:...
– History of Ajaria – History of Georgia
History of Georgia (country)
The nation of Georgia was first unified as a kingdom under the Bagrationi dynasty in the 9th to 10th century, arising from a number of predecessor states of ancient Colchis and Iberia...
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Iakob TsurtaveliIakob Tsurtaveli
Jacob of Tsurtavi also known as Jacob the Priest was the 5th-century Georgian religious writer and priest from Tsurtavi, then the major town of Gogarene and the Lower Iberia....
– Ibero-Caucasian languages
Ibero-Caucasian languages
The term Ibero-Caucasian was proposed by Georgian linguist Arnold Chikobava for the union of the three language families that are specific to the Caucasus area, namely* Kartvelian languages...
– Ikalto
Ikalto
Ikalto is a village about 10 km west of the town Telavi in the Kakheti region of Eastern Georgia. It is mostly known for its monastery complex and the Ikalto Academy....
– Ilia II
Ilia II
Ilia II is the current Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and the spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church...
– Saint Ilia the Righteous – Imereti
Imereti
Imereti is a province in Georgia situated along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni river. It consists of the following Georgian administrative-territorial units:#Kutaisi #Baghdati region#Vani region#Zestafoni region...
– Industry will save Georgia
Industry will save Georgia
The Industry Will Save Georgia is a conservative political party in Georgia....
– Ingorokva, Pavle
Pavle Ingorokva
Pavle Ingorokva was a Georgian historian, philologist, and public benefactor.He graduated from the University of St. Petersburg . In 1917 he was one of the founders of the Union of Georgian Writers...
– Intellectuals League of Georgia
Intellectuals League of Georgia
The Intellectuals League of Georgia is a left-wing political party in Georgia.At the last legislative elections, 28 March 2004, the party was part of the Jumber Patiashvili - Unity alliance....
– Ioseliani, Jaba
Jaba Ioseliani
Jaba Ioseliani was a Georgian politician, bank robber and leader of the paramilitary Mkhedrioni organisation....
– Ioseliani, Otar – ISO 3166-2:GE
ISO 3166-2:GE
ISO 3166-2:GE is the entry for Georgia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Georgia, ISO 3166-2 codes are...
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Janashia, NikolozNikoloz Janashia
Nikoloz Janashia was a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor.He born in Tbilisi...
– Janashia, Simon
Simon Janashia
Simon Janashia was an outstanding Georgian historian and public benefactor, one of the founders and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor....
– Japaridze, Tedo
Tedo Japaridze
Tedo Japaridze is a Georgian politician and diplomat.Japaridze was born in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia . He graduated from the Department of Western European Languages and Literature at Tbilisi State University in 1971 and worked there until 1974...
– Java, Georgia
Java, Georgia
Java or Dzau is a town of approximately 1,500 people in South Ossetia. According to Georgia's current official administrative division, Java is a main town of Java district in the north of Shida Kartli region. According to the South Ossetian side Dzau is an administrative center of Dzau district...
– Javakhishvili, Ivane
Ivane Javakhishvili
Ivane Javakhishvili was a Georgian historian whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia...
– Jumber Patiashvili - Unity
Jumber Patiashvili - Unity
The Jumber Patiashvili – Unity is an electoral alliance in Georgia, formed by Unity and the Intellectuals League of Georgia. At the last legislative elections, 28 March 2004, the alliance won 2.4 % of the popular vote....
– Jvari (disambiguation)
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Kakabadze, SargisSargis Kakabadze
Sargis N. Kakabadze was a Georgian historian and philologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.He was born in 1886, in a small village Kukhi . In 1910 he graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Languages of the St.Petersburg University...
– Kakheti
Kakheti
Kakheti is a historical province in Eastern Georgia inhabited by Kakhetians who speak a local dialect of Georgian. It is bordered by the small mountainous province of Tusheti and the Greater Caucasus mountain range to the north, Russian Federation to the Northeast, Azerbaijan to the Southeast, and...
– Kaladze, Kakha – Kancheli, Giya
Giya Kancheli
Giya Kancheli , born 10 August 1935, in Tbilisi, is a Georgian composer resident in Belgium.Since 1991, Kancheli has lived in Western Europe: first in Berlin, and since 1995 in Antwerp, where he is composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic....
– Kartli
Kartli
Kartli is a historical region in central-to-eastern Georgia traversed by the river Mtkvari , on which Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is situated. Known to the Classical authors as Iberia, Kartli played a crucial role in ethnic and political consolidation of the Georgians in the Middle Ages...
– Kartl-Kakheti
Kartl-Kakheti
The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti was created in 1762 by the unification of two eastern Georgian kingdoms, which had existed independently since the disintegration of the united Georgian Kingdom in the 15th century....
– Kartveli, Alexander
Alexander Kartveli
Alexander Kartveli 1896–1974, born Kartvelishvili) was a famous and influential aircraft engineer and a pioneer of American aviation history. Kartveli achieved important breakthroughs in military aviation in the time of turbojet fighters...
– Kasrashvili, Makvala
Makvala Kasrashvili
Makvala Kasrashvili is a Georgian-Russian opera singer .Born March 13, 1942 in Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, she graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1966. Since 1968, she has been a soloist with Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow...
– Keda, Georgia
Keda, Georgia
Keda is a small town in Ajaria, an autonomous republic in the southwestern Georgia, 42 km southeast to the regional capital Batumi. Keda District also comprises 60 villages adjoining to the town. Its area is 452 km²...
– Kelesh Bey, Prince of Abkhazia – Kereselidze, Leo
Leo Kereselidze
Leo Keresselidze or Kereselidze was a Georgian military figure, politician and journalist involved in the Georgian national movement against the Russian and later Soviet domination....
– Ketevan the Martyr
Ketevan the Martyr
Ketevan, "the Martyr" was a queen of Kakheti, a kingdom in eastern Georgia. She was killed at Shiraz, Iran, after prolonged tortures for refusing to give up the Christian faith and embrace Islam.-Life:...
– Khadjimba, Raul
Raul Khadjimba
Raul Jumka-ipa Khajimba is a politician from Abkhazia, leading the oppositional Forum of the National Unity of Abkhazia. Until 28 May 2009 Khajimba served as Vice President following the power-sharing agreement reached with current president Sergei Bagapsh to end the crisis that followed the...
– Khashba, Nodar
Nodar Khashba
Nodar Vladimirovich Khashba is a former prime minister of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia and a former mayor of Sukhumi....
– Khevsureti
Khevsureti
Khevsureti/Khevsuria is a historical-ethnographic region in eastern Georgia. They are the branch of Kartvelian people located along both the northern and southern slopes of the Great Caucasus...
– Khizanishvili, Zurab
Zurab Khizanishvili
Zurab Khizanishvili is a Georgian footballer who plays for Turkish club Kayserispor as a defender.-Early career:Khizanishvili started his career at Dinamo Tbilisi where he remained for just one season, before joining FC Tbilisi to improve his chances of playing regular first team football.In 1999...
– Kitovani, Tengiz
Tengiz Kitovani
Tengiz Kitovani is a retired Georgian politician and military commander with high-profile involvement in the Georgian Civil War early in the 1990s when he commanded the National Guard of Georgia and served as a Defense Minister until being gradually sidelined by Eduard Shevardnadze who had...
– Kmara
Kmara
Kmara is a civic resistance movement in the republic of Georgia which undermined the government of Eduard Shevardnadze. After international observers condemned his government's conduct of the November 2003 parliamentary elections, Kmara led the protests which precipitated his downfall in what...
– Kobuleti
Kobuleti
Kobuleti is a town in Georgia's southwestern region of Ajaria. It is situated on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Kobuleti is a sea resort, visited annually by Georgians and many former Soviet Union residents. From the 17th century into the 19th, Kobuleti was a fiefdom of the Tavdgiridze...
– Kodori Valley
Kodori Valley
The Kodori Valley is a river valley in Abkhazia, Georgia's breakaway autonomous republic. The valley's upper part, populated by Svans, was the only corner of the post-1993 Abkhazia, directly controlled by the central Georgian government, which officially styles the area as Upper Abkhazia...
– Kokkai – Kokoity, Eduard
Eduard Kokoity
Eduard Dzhabeyevich Kokoity is the de facto President of South Ossetia.-Early life:Eduard Kokoity was born on 31 October 1964 in Tskhinvali, in the Georgian SSR, a part of the Soviet Union at the time. Kokoity was a member, and champion, of the Soviet Union's national wrestling team...
– Kostava, Merab
Merab Kostava
250px|thumb|Merab Kostava, 1988Merab Kostava was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia...
– Kutaisi
Kutaisi
Kutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:...
– Kvinitadze Giorgi
Giorgi Kvinitadze
Giorgi Kvinitadze was a Georgian military commander who rose from an officer in the Imperial Russian army to commander-in-chief of the Democratic Republic of Georgia...
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Labadze, IrakliIrakli Labadze
Irakli Labadze |Georgia]]) is a professional tennis player. His career high singles ranking was "World No. 42" which he attained in July, 2004.Labadze turned pro in 1998, and has recently passed the $1 205 296 career prize money mark...
– Lagodekhi
Lagodekhi
Lagodekhi is a small town and district in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia. There is a border crossing there leading to Azerbaijan's Balakan Province.Lagodekhi Nature Reserve, established in 1911, is situated in this area.-External links:***...
– Lari (Georgia) – Laz language
Laz language
The Laz language is a South Caucasian language spoken by the Laz people on the Southeast shore of the Black Sea...
– Laz people
Laz people
The Laz are an ethnic group native to the Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia...
– Lazic War
Lazic War
The Lazic War or Colchic War, also known as the Great War of Egrisi in Georgian historiography, was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Sassanid Persia for control of the region of Lazica, in what is now western Georgia...
– Lentekhi
Lentekhi
Lentekhi is a small town and Lentekhi District's capital in Georgia's western region of Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, 323 km northwest to the nation's capital Tbilisi. Situated on the southern slope of the Central Caucasus, the district is a site of alpinism...
– LGBT rights in Georgia (Gay rights) - Likani
Likani
Likani is a townlet in Georgia’s Samtskhe-Javakheti region, located at the west end of the town of Borjomi in the Borjomi Gorge, some 160 km west of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia...
– List of cities in Georgia – List of foreign ministers of Abkhazia – List of Georgian Wars – List of Georgian writers – List of Georgians – List of political parties in Abkhazia – List of political parties in Georgia – List of political parties in South Ossetia – List of Prime Ministers of Abkhazia – List of Tbilisi metro stations – List of the Kings of Georgia
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Maglakelidze, Shalva – Mamardashvili, MerabMerab Mamardashvili
Merab Mamardashvili was a Georgian philosopher, Doctor of Sciences , Professor . He was born in Gori . In 1955 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University...
– March 9 Massacre in Tbilisi, 1956
March 9 massacre in Tbilisi, 1956
The March 1956 demonstrations in Soviet Georgia were a reaction to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy, which shocked the younger Georgians raised on Stalinist ideology and wounded their national feelings...
– Marr, Nikolay
Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr
Nicholas Jakovlevich Marr was a Georgia-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before developing his linguistic "Japhetic theory" on the origin of language and related speculative linguistic hypotheses.Marr's hypotheses were used as a...
– Martvili
Martvili
Martvili is a small town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti province of Western Georgia. Its monastery was Samegrelo's clerical centre in the Middle Ages...
– Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...
– Mazniashvili, Giorgi
Giorgi Mazniashvili
Giorgi Mazniashvili was a Georgian general and one of the most prominent military figures in the Democratic Republic of Georgia...
– Mchedlidze Guram
Guram Mchedlidze
Guram I. Mchedlidze was a Georgian Palaeobiologist, Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences , Doctor of Biological Sciences , Professor....
– Medea
Medea
Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of...
– Megrelian language
Megrelian language
Mingrelian, or Megrelian , is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia , primarily by Georgians of Mingrelian origin. The language was also called Iverian in the early 20th century...
– Melikishvili, Giorgi
Giorgi Melikishvili
Giorgi Melikishvili was a Georgian historian known for his fundamental works in the history of Georgia, Caucasia and the Middle East. He earned an international recognition for his research of Urartu....
– Melua, Katie
Katie Melua
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British-Georgian singer, songwriter and musician. She moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then to England at fourteen. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003...
– Mengrelia – Merabishvili, Vano
Vano Merabishvili
Ivane Merabishvili is a Georgian politician who has served as the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs since December 18, 2004...
– Meshech
Meshech
In the Bible, Meshech is named as a son of Japheth in Genesis 10:2 and 1 Chronicles 1:5.Another Meshech is named as a son of Aram in 1 Chronicles 1:17 .-Interpretations:...
– Meskheti
Meskheti
Meskheti is in a mountainous area of Moschia and is a former province in southwestern Georgia. The ancient Georgian tribes of Meskhi and Mosiniks were the indigenous population of this region. A majority of the modern Georgian population of Meskheti are descendants of these ancient tribes...
– Mestia
Mestia
Mestia is a highland townlet in northwest Georgia, at an elevation of 1,500 meters in the Caucasus Mountains.-General information:According to the current administrative subdivision of Georgia, Mestia is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region , some 128 km northeast of the regional...
– Michael I of Imereti
Michael I of Imereti
Mikeli , from the House of Bagrationi, was king of the western Georgian kingdom of Imereti from 1327 to 1329. The second son of David VI Narin by his first wife Tamar, Mikeli revolted against his elder brother Konstantini I's rule and took the provinces of Racha and Argveti. Konstantini died...
– Mikheil, Prince of Abkhazia
Mikheil, Prince of Abkhazia
Mikhail, or Hamud Bey, from the house of Shervashidze, or Chachba was the head of state of the Principality of Abkhazia and reigned from 1823 to 1864....
– Miles, Richard (diplomat) – Military of Georgia
Military of Georgia
The Georgian Armed Forces , is the name of the unified armed forces of Georgia. The Georgian military is a defence force consisting of the Georgian Land Forces, Georgian Air Force and a paramilitary organization Georgian National Guard...
– Mirian I of Iberia
Mirian I of Iberia
Mirian I was a monarch of Kartli listed as the third king in the traditional royal list of medieval Georgian chronicles...
– Mirian II of Iberia
Mirian II of Iberia
Mirian II or Mirvan was a king of Iberia from 30 to 20 BC. His reign marked the reinstatement of the Nimrodid Dynasty, a continuation of the P'arnabazids....
– Mirian III of Iberia
Mirian III of Iberia
Mirian III was a king of Iberia , contemporaneous to the Roman emperor Constantine I .According to the early medieval Georgian annals and hagiography, Mirian was the first Christian king of Iberia, converted through the ministry of Nino, a Cappadocian female missionary...
– Mislimov, Shirali
Shirali Mislimov
Shirali Baba Muslimov was a Talysh shepherd from the village of Barzavu in the Lerik region of Azerbaijan, a mountainous area near the Iranian border. He was claiming to be the oldest person who ever lived when he died on September 2 , 1973 at the alleged age of 168...
– Mkhedrioni
Mkhedrioni
The Mkhedrioni was a paramilitary group and political organisation in the Republic of Georgia, outlawed since 1995 but subsequently reconstituted as the Union of Patriots political party....
– Monastery of the Cross
Monastery of the Cross
The Monastery of the Cross is a monastery near the Nayot neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. It is located in the Valley of the Cross, below the Israel Museum and the Knesset.- History :...
– Mount Kazbek – Mtkvari – Mtskheta
Mtskheta
Mtskheta , one of the oldest cities of the country of Georgia , is located approximately 20 kilometers north of Tbilisi at the confluence of the Aragvi and Kura rivers. The city is now the administrative centre of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region...
– Music of Georgia
Music of Georgia
Georgia has rich and still vibrant traditional music, which is primarily known as arguably the earliest polyphonic tradition of the Christian world. Situated on the border of Europe and Asia, Georgia is also a home of variety of urban singing styles with the mixture of native polyphony, Middle...
– Muskhelishvili, Nikoloz – Mzhavanadze, Vasily
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Nadareishvili, TamazTamaz Nadareishvili
Tamaz Nadareishvili was a Georgian politician who served as head of the Council of Ministers of Abkhazia, a government-in-exile for the breakaway province....
– Nadarejshvili, Zurab
Zurab Nadarejshvili
Zurab Nadarejshvili is a Georgian composer. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1987. The same year, his First String Quartet was awarded first prize at the Moscow All-Soviet Union Competition. Zurab Nadarejshvili (born 4 January 1957, Poti) is a Georgian composer. He graduated...
– Narikala fortress – National Democratic Alliance (Georgia)
National Democratic Alliance (Georgia)
The National-Democratic Alliance is an electoral alliance in Georgia, formed by the National Democratic Party and the Union of Georgian Traditionalists....
– National Democratic Party (Georgia)
National Democratic Party (Georgia)
The National Democratic Party is a political party in Georgia.At the last legislative elections, 28 March 2004, the party was part of the National Democratic Alliance....
– National Movement - Democrats
National Movement - Democrats
United National Movement is the main center-right party, largest political organization and current governing party in Georgia.- History :UNM was founded in October 2001 by Mikheil Saakashvili...
– New Communist Party of Georgia
New Communist Party of Georgia
New Communist Party of Georgia , is a political party in Georgia. Founded in 2001 by Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Joseph Stalin. Dzhugashvili later left the position as party leader.The party symbol is a hedgehog....
– New Right (Georgia)
New Right (Georgia)
The New Rights Party of Georgia , also translated as New Conservative Party is a liberal conservative party in Georgia...
– Niko the Boer
Niko the Boer
Niko Bagrationi was a Georgian nobleman who fought as a volunteer officer in the Boer army during the Second Boer War...
– Nino (Saint)
Saint Nino
Saint Nino , ), Equal to the Apostles in and the Enlightener of Georgia, was a woman who preached Christianity in Georgia....
– Nogaideli, Zurab – Nutsubidze, Shalva
Shalva Nutsubidze
Shalva Nutsubidze was a Georgian philosopher, translator and public benefactor, one of founders of the Tbilisi State University , founder of Alethology, one of founders of the scientific school in the field of history of Georgian philosophy, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences ,...
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Okruashvili, IrakliIrakli Okruashvili
Irakli Okruashvili is a Georgian politician who had served on various important posts in the Government of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili, including being the Minister of Defense from December 2004 until being dismissed in November 2006.In September 2007, Okruashvili staged a...
– Okudjava, Bulat – Oni, Georgia
Oni, Georgia
Oni is a town in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region , Georgia. Historically and ethnographically, it is part of Racha, a historic highland province in western Georgia...
– Ossetic language
Ossetic language
Ossetian , also sometimes called Ossete, is an East Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains....
– Otyrba, Gueorgui
Gueorgui Otyrba
Gueorgui Otyrba is an Abkhazian politician and academic. He is the current Human Rights Commissioner of Abkhazia and he was acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia between June and July 2004.-Education and career:...
– Ozgan, Konstantin
Konstantin Ozgan
Konstantin Konstantin-ipa Ozgan is the Chairman of the Council of Elders of Abkhazia and a former politician. From 1996 to 1999 Ozgan was a member of the Abkhazian government, first as Minister for Foreign Affairs and then as Minister for the Economy and First Vice-Premier...
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Paliashvili, Zakharia – Papashvily, GeorgeGeorge Papashvily
George Papashvily was a famous Georgian-American writer and sculptor.-Life:He was born in the village of Kobiantkari in the Kartli region of eastern Georgia. According to his autobiography, he apprenticed as a swordmaker and ornamental leatherworker...
– Parajanov, Sergei – Parnavaz I of Iberia – Parnavaz II of Iberia
Parnavaz II of Iberia
Parnavaz II , of the Artaxiad Dynasty, was a king of Iberia from 63 to 30 BC. He is known as Pharnabazus in Classical sources, and is commonly identified with the Bartom or Bratman of the medieval Georgian chronicles.He succeeded upon the death of his father Artag who had been defeated by the...
– Patarkatsishvili, Badri
Badri Patarkatsishvili
Arkady "Badri" Patarkatsishvili was a wealthy Georgian businessman, who was also extensively involved in politics. He contested the 2008 Georgian presidential election and came third with 7.1% of the votes...
– Pelasgian – People's Front (Georgia)
People's Front (Georgia)
People's Front is a non-Marxist political organization in the Republic of Georgia. This party was founded in 1989, in Tbilisi. Chairman of the organization is a noted Georgian scholar, Professor Nodar Natadze....
– Peradze, Grigol
Grigol Peradze
Saint Grigol Peradze , was a famous Georgian ecclesiastic figure, theologian, historian, Archimandrite, PhD of History, Professor.- Life and works :...
– Peter the Iberian
Peter the Iberian
Peter the Iberian, or Peter of Iberia, is a Georgian Orthodox saint, who was a prominent figure in early Christianity. Some have claimed that he is the author of the works written under the pen name Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite....
– Pirosmanashvili, Niko
Niko Pirosmanashvili
Niko Pirosmani was a Georgian primitivist painter.-Biography:Pirosmani was born in the Georgian village of Mirzaani to a peasant family in the Kakheti province. His parents, Aslan Pirosmanashvili and Tekle Toklikishvili were farmers. They owned a small vineyard, couple of cows and oxes...
– Politics of Georgia (country) – Post-Soviet states
Post-Soviet states
The post-Soviet states, also commonly known as the Former Soviet Union or former Soviet republics, are the 15 independent states that split off from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its dissolution in December 1991...
– Poti
Poti
Poti is a port city in Georgia, located on the eastern Black Sea coast in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the west of the country. Built near the site of the ancient Greek colony of Phasis, the city has become a major port city and industrial center since the early 20th century. It is also...
– President of Georgia
President of Georgia
The President of Georgia is the head of state, supreme commander-in-chief and holder of the highest office within the Government of Georgia. Executive power is split between the President and the Prime Minister, who is the head of government...
– President of South Ossetia
President of South Ossetia
The President of the Republic of South Ossetia is the de facto head of state of the partially recognized Republic of South Ossetia that is de jure part of Georgia...
– Prime Minister of Georgia
Prime Minister of Georgia
The Prime Minister of Georgia is the most senior minister within the Cabinet of Georgia, appointed by the President of Georgia. The official title of the Head of the Government of Georgia has varied throughout history, however, the duties and functions of the leader have changed only marginally....
– Princes of Abkhazia
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RachaRacha
Racha is a highland area in western Georgia, located in the upper Rioni river valley and hemmed in by the Greater Caucasus mountains...
– Radde, Gustav
Gustav Radde
Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde was a German naturalist and explorer.Radde was born in Danzig, the son of a schoolmaster. He had little formal education, and began a career as an apothecary...
– Razikashvili, Levan
Levan Razikashvili
Levan Razikashvili was a Georgian military officer and victim of Soviet repressions.He was born into the family of the Georgian poet Luka Razikashvili, better known by his pseudonym Vazha-Pshavela. Razikashvili graduated from the Tbilisi Gymnasium for Nobility and joined the Social-Federalist...
– Religion and religious freedom in Georgia
Religion and religious freedom in Georgia
Freedom of religion in Georgia is provided for by the country's constitution, and the government generally respects this right in practice.The government generally do not interfere with traditional religious groups; however, there is growing suspicion of non-traditional religious groups.-Legal and...
– Republican Party (Abkhazia)
Republican Party (Abkhazia)
The Republican Party is a political party in Abkhazia.No information is available about the results at the last elections....
– Revival (Abkhazia)
Revival (Abkhazia)
Aitaira is a socio-political movement in Abkhazia. It is headed by current Vice-Premier Leonid Lakerbaia.Aitaira backed the current Prime Minister of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab in the 2004 presidential election, but upon his exclusion from the race by the Central Election Commission, Aitaira joined...
– Revived Communist Party of Georgia
Revived Communist Party of Georgia
Revived Communist Party of Georgia , a communist political party in Georgia. Founded in 1997. The party is now dissolved.The party had a 105-member central committee elected on a two-year mandate. A CC Bureau was constituted with 21 members. The party claimed to have 17 500 members divided in 32...
– Rhadamistus
Rhadamistus
Rhadamistus was an Iberian prince who reigned in Armenia from 51 to 53 and 54 to 55 CE. Considered to be an usurper and tyrant, he was overthrown in a rebellion supported by the Parthian Empire.- Life :...
– Rightist Opposition
Rightist Opposition
The Right Opposition is an alliance of Georgia's New Rights and Industry will save Georgia parties. It is the only opposition group that successfully won over seven percent of the votes on March 28, 2004, which was the necessary threshold to secure seats in Parliament...
– Rioni River
Rioni River
The Rioni or Rion River is the main river of western Georgia. It originates in the Caucasus Mountains, in the region of Racha and flows west to the Black Sea, entering it north of the city of Poti...
– Robakidze, Grigol
Grigol Robakidze
Grigol Robakidze was a Georgian writer, publicist, and public figure primarily known for his exotic prose and anti-Soviet émigré activities....
– Roelofs, Sandra E. – Roman Catholicism in Georgia – Rose Revolution
Rose Revolution
The "Revolution of Roses" was a change of power in Georgia in November 2003, which took place after having widespread protests over the disputed parliamentary elections...
– Roustan – Rustavi 2 TV – Rustavi
Rustavi
Rustavi is a city in the southeast of Georgia, in the province of Kvemo Kartli, situated southeast of the capital Tbilisi. It stands on the Mtkvari River at...
-Rustavi Choir
Rustavi Choir
The Rustavi Ensemble is a Georgian folk music ensemble that was created in 1968 by Anzor Erkomaishvili, a singer and folklorist from a distinguished Georgian musical lineage that goes back seven generations...
– Rusudan
Rusudan
Rusudan may refer to:* Rusudan, daughter of Demetre I of Georgia, 12th-13th century* Rusudan, daughter of Giorgi III of Georgia, 12th-13th century* Queen Rusudan of Georgia , niece of the above, ruled 1223-1245...
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Saakashvili, MikheilMikheil Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.Involved in the national politics since 1995, Saakashvili became president on 25 January 2004 after President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in a November 2003...
– Sachkhere
Sachkhere
Sachkhere is a town at the northern edge of the Imereti Province in Western Georgia....
– Samtredia
Samtredia
Samtredia is a town in Imereti, Georgia, lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni and Tskhenis-Tsqali, 244 km west of Tbilisi, and 27 km west of Kutaisi, the nation’s capital and the second largest city respectively. Georgia’s most important roads and railways converge there, making Samtredia...
– Samtskhe-Javakheti – Sanaia, Giorgi
Giorgi Sanaia
Giorgi Sanaia, sometimes spelled as Giorgi Sanaya was a Georgian television journalist of the independent broadcasting company Rustavi 2 who was murdered under controversial circumstances in 2001....
– Sanakoyev, Igor – Sarishvili-Chanturia, Irine
Irine Sarishvili-Chanturia
Irina Sarishvili-Chanturia , is a Georgian NGO leader, formerly actively involved in national politics.A philologist by education, she graduated from the Faculty of Western Literature at Tbilisi State University in 1984....
– Saurmag of Iberia – Sayat-Nova
Sayat-Nova
Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova (born as Harutyun Sayatyan , was an Armenian poet, musician and ashik who had compositions in a number of languages. His adopted name Sayat Nova meant "Master of Songs" in Persian.- Biography :...
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Screeve
Screeve
A screeve is a term of grammatical description in traditional Georgian grammars that roughly corresponds to TAM marking in the Western grammatical tradition. It derives from the Georgian word mts'k'rivi , which means "row". Formally, it refers to a set of six verb forms inflected for person and...
– Shakryl, Tamara
Tamara Shakryl
Tamara Shakryl was a linguist, academic and human rights campaigner from Abkhazia.Shakryl was a senior associate at the Institute for the Study of the Humanities at the Abkhazian Academy of Sciences...
– Shalikashvili, John -Shamba, Sergey
Sergey Shamba
Sergei Miron-ipa Shamba is a former Prime Minister of Abkhazia, in office from 13 February 2010 until 27 September 2011. Before becoming Prime Minister, Shamba had been the long-time Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia - from 7 May 1997, with a half-year interruption in 2004, both under...
– Shartava, Zhiuli
Zhiuli Shartava
Zhiuli Shartava was a Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia who was killed by Abkhaz militants during the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia in 1993....
– Shaumyan, Stepan – Shaw, Peter
Peter Shaw (kidnap victim)
Peter Shaw is a British businessman who spent several months as a hostage during 2002.Shaw, originally from Cowbridge in South Wales, was working as an adviser to the Agro-Business Bank in Tbilisi, Georgia, when he was kidnapped on June 18, 2002, shortly before he was due to return to the UK. He...
– Shevardnadze, Eduard
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze is a former Soviet, and later, Georgian statesman from the height to the end of the Cold War. He served as President of Georgia from 1995 to 2003, and as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party , from 1972 to 1985. Shevardnadze was responsible for many top decisions on...
-Shida Kartli
Shida Kartli
Shida Kartli is a region in Georgia. It consists of the following districts: Gori, Kaspi, Kareli, Java, Khashuri.The northern part of the region, namely Java, and northern territories of Kareli and Gori, is controlled by the authorities of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia since...
– Shorapani
Shorapani
Shorapani is a small Georgian town, situated in the Zestaponi District, part of the region of Imereti. Founded in the 3rd century BC, it served as a residence of the eristavi of Argveti in the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.Near the town are the ruins of a fortress, mentioned as Sarapana by...
– Shota Rustaveli State Prize
Shota Rustaveli State Prize
The Shota Rustaveli State Prize is the highest prize awarded by Georgia in the fields of art and literature. The first prize-winners of this prize were Konstantine Gamsakhurdia , Irakli Abashidze and Lado Gudiashvili in 1965...
– Shota Rustaveli
Shota Rustaveli
Shota Rustaveli was a Georgian poet of the 12th century, and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature. He is author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" , the Georgian national epic poem....
– Shuakhevi
Shuakhevi
Shuakhevi is a small town in Georgia's autonomous region of Ajaria, 67 km east to the regional capital Batumi. Situated on the right bank of the Adjaristsqali River, it is an administrative center of Shuakhevi District, which comprises the town itself and 68 adjoining mountainous villages. The...
– Shushanik
Shushanik
Saint Shushanik was a Christian woman who was murdered by her husband Varsken in the town of Tsurtavi, Georgia. Since she died defending her right to profess Christianity, she is regarded as a martyr...
– Sien
Sien
Sien may refer to:*Sien of Diauehi, king of an ancient people of north-east Anatolia*Sien, Germany...
– Sigua, Tengiz
Tengiz Sigua
Tengiz Sigua is a Georgian politician and former Prime Minister of the country.Sigua was an engineer by profession and entered politics on the eve of the Soviet Union’s collapse. In 1990, he headed the Rustaveli Society of All Georgia and led an expert group of the bloc “Round Table-Free Georgia”...
– Since Otar Left
Since Otar Left
Since Otar Left is a 2003 film by director Julie Bertuccelli, based around three Georgian women living in modern-day Tbilisi...
– Sissaouri, Guivi
Guivi Sissaouri
Guivi Sissaouri is a Canadian freestyle wrestler. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, he began wrestling at age ten.Sissaouri won the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the 57 kg class...
– Solomon I of Imereti
Solomon I of Imereti
Solomon I , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was King of Imereti from 1752 to 1766 and again from 1768 until his death in 1784....
– Solomon II of Imereti
Solomon II of Imereti
Solomon II , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was the last King of Imereti from 1789 to 1790 and from 1792 until his deposition by the Imperial Russian government in 1810....
– South Caucasian languages
South Caucasian languages
The Kartvelian languages are spoken primarily in Georgia, with a large group of ethnic Georgian speakers in Russia, the United States, the European Union, and northeastern parts of Turkey. There are approximately 5.2 million speakers of this language family worldwide.It is not known to be related...
– South Caucasus
South Caucasus
The South Caucasus is a geopolitical region located on the border of Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia also referred to as Transcaucasia, or The Trans-Caucasus...
– South Ossetia
South Ossetia
South Ossetia or Tskhinvali Region is a disputed region and partly recognized state in the South Caucasus, located in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic....
– Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
– Stalin, Joseph
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
– Subdivisions of Georgia – Sukhumi
Sukhumi
Sukhumi is the capital of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. The city suffered heavily during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in the early 1990s.-Naming:...
– Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia
Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia was the highest unicameral legislative body in Georgia elected in the first democratic, multiparty elections in the Caucasus in October 1990 while the country was still part of the Soviet Union. The Council presided over the declaration of Georgia’s...
– Svan language
Svan language
The Svan language is a Kartvelian language spoken in the Western Georgian region of Svaneti primarily by the Georgians of Svan origin...
– Svaneti
Svaneti
Svaneti is a historic province in Georgia, in the northwestern part of the country. It is inhabited by the Svans, a geographic subgroup of the Georgians.- Geography :...
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Tabidze, GalaktionGalaktion Tabidze
Galaktion Tabidze was a leading Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced all subsequent generations of Georgian poets. He survived Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s, which claimed lives of many of his fellow writers, friends and relatives, but came under heavy...
– Takaishvili, Ekvtime
Ekvtime Takaishvili
Ekvtime Takaishvili was a Georgian historian, archaeologist and public benefactor....
– Taktakishvili, Otar
Otar Taktakishvili
Otar Taktakishvili was a Georgian composer, teacher, conductor, and writer of music.Otar Taktakishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, while still been a student he composed the official anthem of the Georgian SSR. By 1949 he became a Professor of the Tbilisi Conservatory and the ...
– Tamar of Georgia
Tamar of Georgia
Tamar , of the Bagrationi dynasty, was Queen Regnant of Georgia from 1184 to 1213. Tamar presided over the "Golden age" of the medieval Georgian monarchy...
– Tao-Klarjeti
Tao-Klarjeti
Tao-Klarjeti is the term conventionally used in modern history writing to describe the historic south-western Georgian principalities, now forming part of north-eastern Turkey and divided among the provinces of Erzurum, Artvin, Ardahan and Kars...
– Tariverdiev Mikael
Mikael Tariverdiev
Mikael Tariverdiev |Georgia]] - 24 June 1996, Sochi, Russia) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception.-Biography:...
– Tavisupleba
Tavisupleba
"Tavisupleba" is the current national anthem of Georgia. The anthem, whose title means "Freedom", was adopted in 2004, along with the new national flag and coat of arms. The symbols' change was brought about upon the successful overthrow of the previous government in the bloodless Rose Revolution...
– Tbilisi
Tbilisi
Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
– Tbilisi hijacking incident
Tbilisi hijacking incident
Aeroflot Flight 6833, en route from Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, to Leningrad, Russian SFSR, with an intermediate stop in Batumi, was the scene of an attempted aircraft hijacking by seven young Georgians on 18-19 November 1983. The crisis ended with a storming of the Tu-134A airliner by Soviet special...
– Tbilisi Metro
Tbilisi Metro
The Tbilisi Metro is a rapid transit Metro system in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Opened in 1966 it became the fourth Metro system in the former Soviet Union. Like most ex-Soviet Metros, most of the stations are very deep and vividly decorated....
– Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University , better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...
– Telavi
Telavi
Telavi is the main city and administrative center of Georgia's eastern province of Kakheti. Its population consists of some 21,800 inhabitants . The city is located on foot-hills of Tsiv-Gombori Range at 500-800 meters above the sea level....
– Telecommunications in Georgia Terek River – Tetri Giorgi
Tetri Giorgi
Tetri Giorgi is one of the local names of Christian Saint George in Georgia, specifically in the country’s northeastern highland districts. The popularity of the cult led to establishment of Tetri Giorgi as a national symbol, part of Georgia's coat of arms in the years 1918-1921 and 1991-2004...
– Tetri
Tetri
Tetri is a fractional currency used in the country of Georgia. It was put into circulation in 1995.The name tetri was adopted from the term describing golden, silver or copper coins known in ancient and medieval Georgia....
– Tetritsq'aro
Tetritsq'aro
Tetri Tsqaro is a town in Kvemo Kartli in southern Georgia, the name of which translates as "White Spring".- See also :*Gudarekhi...
– The Knight in the Panther's Skin
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
The Knight in the Panther's Skin is an epic poem, consisting of over 1600 shairi quatrains, was written in the 12th century by the Georgian epic-poet Shota Rustaveli, who was a Prince and Treasurer at the royal court of Queen Tamar of Georgia. The Knight in the Panther's Skin is often seen as...
– Toradze, Alexander
Alexander Toradze
Alexander Toradze is a classical concert pianist, best known for his classical Russian repertoire, with career spanning over three decades...
– Tornike Eristavi – Transair Georgian Airline Shootdowns (September 1993)
Transair Georgian Airline Shootdowns (September 1993)
In September, 1993, three Tupolev civilian airliners belonging to Transair Georgia were hit by missiles fired by rebels in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia. 136 perished in the attacks.-21 September:...
– Trans-Caucasian Democratic Federative Republic – Transcaucasian SFSR
Transcaucasian SFSR
The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic , also known as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the TSFSR for short, was a short-lived republic of the Soviet Union, lasting from 1922 to 1936...
– Transportation in Georgia (country) – Treaty of Georgievsk
Treaty of Georgievsk
The Treaty of Georgievsk was a bilateral treaty concluded between the Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti on July 24, 1783. The treaty established Georgia as a protectorate of Russia, which guaranteed Georgia's territorial integrity and the continuation of its reigning...
– Tsaava, Londer
Londer Tsaava
Londer Tsaava was the chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers in Exile, which forms part of the Georgian government-in-exile now based in Kodori, Georgia. In this capacity, he served as the government-in-exile's second highest ranking official, and also had a period as de facto leader.He has been a...
– Tsereteli, Akaki
Akaki Tsereteli
Prince Ak'ak'i Tsereteli was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.He was born in the village of Skhvitori on June 9, 1840 to the prominent Georgian aristocratic family. His father was Prince Rostom Tsereteli...
– Tsereteli, Giorgi
Giorgi Tsereteli
Giorgi V. Tsereteli was a distinguished Georgian scientist and public benefactor, founder of the well-known Georgian scientific school of Oriental Studies and Arabist of world renown, founder of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University , founder and first Director of the...
– Tsereteli, Grigol
Grigol Tsereteli
Grigol Tsereteli was a distinguished Georgian scientist, one of the founders of Papyrology, founder of the Georgian scientific school of Classical Philology, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Honourable Professor.- Life and works :Grigol Tsereteli was born...
– Tsereteli, Irakli
Irakli Tsereteli
Irakli Tsereteli was a Georgian politician, one of the leaders of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party and later the Georgian Mensheviks....
– Tsereteli, Mikheil
Mikheil Tsereteli
Prince Mikheil G. Tsereteli was a Georgian historian, philologist, sociologist and public benefactor, Dr.Sci., Professor....
– Tsereteli, Vasil
Vasil Tsereteli
Vasil Tsereteli was a distinguished Georgian physician, journalist and public benefactor. He was born in a village Tskhrukveti , in the family of Prince Giorgi Tsereteli. His brother was Professor Mikheil Tsereteli, a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor...
– Tsereteli, Zurab
Zurab Tsereteli
Zurab Konstantines dze Tsereteli is a Georgian-Russian painter, sculptor and architect who holds the office of President of the Russian Academy of Arts.- Life :...
– Tskhinvali
Tskhinvali
Tskhinvali , is the capital of South Ossetia, a disputed region which has been recognised as an independent Republic by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Nauru, and is regarded by Georgia and the rest of the world as part of the Shida Kartli region within Georgian sovereign territory.It is located...
– Tsq'altubo
Tsq'altubo
Tsq'altubo, located in the north of Imereti region of Western Georgia, is a resort situated about 30 km northwest to the city of Kutaisi....
– Tsugba, Vyacheslav
Vyacheslav Tsugba
Viacheslav Mikhail-ipa Tsugba was the third Prime Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia from December 1999 to May 2001...
– Turashvili, David
David Turashvili
David Turashvili is a Georgian fiction writer. In 1989, he was one of the leaders of the student protest action taking place at the Davidgareja monasteries in eastern Georgia, whose territory was exploited by the Soviet Union military as a training ground. His first novels, published in 1988,...
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Union of Citizens of GeorgiaUnion of Citizens of Georgia
The Union of Citizens of Georgia is a centre-left political party established by Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia between 1992-2003 and David Chantladze, former General Trade Representative of Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia...
– Union of Georgian Traditionalists
Union of Georgian Traditionalists
Union of Georgian Traditionalists was a national political organization of the Georgian Political Emigration in 1930s.The Union was established in 1942, in Berlin...
– United Abkhazia
United Abkhazia
United Abkhazia is a political party in Abkhazia. United Abkhazia was founded on March 25, 2004 as a socio-political movement, with the specific goal of presenting a single opposition candidate for the October 2004 presidential elections....
– United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
The United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 858 in August 1993 to verify compliance with a 27 July 1993 ceasefire agreement between the Republic of Georgia and forces in Abkhazia with special attention given to the situation in the...
– Unity (Georgia)
Unity (Georgia)
Unity is a left-wing political party in Georgia.At the last legislative elections, 28 March 2004, the party was part of the Jumber Patiashvili - Unity alliance....
– Usupov, Raul
Raul Usupov
Raul Usupov was a politician in the nation of Georgia and deputy governor of Kvemo Kartli region....
– Utupurshi – Uznadze, Dimitri
Dimitri Uznadze
Dmitry Nikolaevich Uznadze was a famous Georgian psychologist, philosopher and public benefactor, founder of the Georgian scientific school of Psychology, co-founder of the Tbilisi State University , Academician and co-founder of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , Meritorious Science Worker of...
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Vakhtang I GorgasaliVakhtang I Gorgasali
Vakhtang I "Gorgasali" , of the Chosroid dynasty, was a king of Iberia, natively known as Kartli in the second half of the 5th and first quarter of the 6th century. Gorgasali is a sobriquet meaning in Iranian "wolf’s head"...
– Vakhtang II of Georgia
Vakhtang II of Georgia
Vakhtang II , of the dynasty of Bagrationi, was king of Georgia from 1289 to 1292. He reigned during the Mongol dominance of Georgia....
– Vakhtang III of Georgia
Vakhtang III of Georgia
Vakhtang III , of the dynasty of Bagrationi, was the king of Georgia from 1302 to 1308. he ruled during the Mongol dominance of Georgia....
– Vakhtang VI of Kartli
Vakhtang VI of Kartli
Vakhtang VI , also known as Vakhtang the Scholar and Vakhtang the Lawgiver, was a Wāli of Kartli, eastern Georgia, as a nominal vassal to the Persian shah from 1716 to 1724. Traditionally, he has been still styled as king of Kartli...
– Vani
Vani
Vani is a town in Imereti region of western Georgia, at the Sulori river , 41 km southwest from the regional capital Kutaisi...
– Varshalomidze, Levan
Levan Varshalomidze
Levan Varshalomidze is a Georgian politician and the current Chairman of the Government of Adjara. He became the leader of this autonomous republic in southwestern Georgia following the ousting of ruler Aslan Abashidze in May 2004 .Varshalomidze was born in Batumi...
– Vazha-Pshavela
Vazha-Pshavela
Vazha-Pshavela is the pen-name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka P. Razikashvili , a classic of the new Georgian literature.- The biography :...
– Voronya Cave
Voronya Cave
The Krubera Cave is the deepest known cave on Earth. It is located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagrinsky Range of the Western Caucasus, in the Gagra district of Abkhazia, Georgia’s breakaway republic.The difference in the altitude of the cave's entrance and its deepest explored point is...
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Zakariadze, SergoSergo Zakariadze
Sergo Zakariadze was a Georgian actor.Zakariadze was born in Baku, now in Azerbaijan. He won several prizes among them Best Actor honors at the Moscow International Film Festival for his portrayal of an aging peasant in Father of a Soldier...
– Zhordania, Noe
Noe Zhordania
Noe Zhordania was a Georgian journalist and Menshevik politician. He played an eminent role in the Social Democratic revolutionary movement in Imperial Russia, and later chaired the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from July 24, 1918 until March 18, 1921, when the Bolshevik Soviet...
– Zhvania, Zurab
Zurab Zhvania
Zurab Zhvania was a prominent Georgian politician, having served as Prime Minister of Georgia and Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia as well as Minister without Portfolio. Zhvania assumed premiership on 18 February 2004 and remained on the position until his death on 3 February 2005...
– Zourabichvili, Salome
Salome Zourabichvili
Salomé Zourabichvili is a Georgian politician, from 2004 to 2005 Foreign Minister of Georgia and a former diplomat in the French service. Currently she is the Coordinator of the Panel of Experts assisting the UN Security Council’s Iran Sanctions Committee.-Biography:Zourabichvili was born in...
– Zugdidi
Zugdidi
Zugdidi is a city in the Western Georgian historical province of Samegrelo . It is situated in the north-west of that province. The city is located 318 kilometres west of Tbilisi, 30 km. from Black sea coast and 30 km. from Egrisi range. 100-110 metres above sea level. As of 2007, it had a...
– Zviadists
Zviadists
Zviadists was an informal name given to supporters of the former Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia who was overthrown and died during the Georgian Civil War of 1991-1993....