Website about Georgia (country) and this peoples

Georgia country – is the English name of the country, situated at the junction of Europe and Asia that has only recently gained independence and restored her statehood, lost almost two hundred years ago. It is also the name by which she is known in the greater part of the modem European languages (French – Georgie, German – Georgien, Spanish – Georgiano, Italian – Georgia, etc.).

 This name com es from the Latin – “georgiani”, in Georgian: Sakartvelo, in Eastern languages: Gyurjistan, is an ancient state in the South Caucasus. Georgia, as well as its historical lands, are state entities known throughout their three thousand years of statehood as the Kingdom of Colchis (Egrisi), Iberia (Kartli, Kartalinia), the Kingdom of Laz or Lazica (Egrisi), the Abkhazian (Western Georgian) Kingdom, the Georgian Kingdom (Sakartvelo), the principalities of Abkhazia, Guria, Megrelia (Mingrelia, Odishi), Samtskhe-Saatabago, and Svaneti.

 With the annexation of the Kartli-Kakheti Kingdom to the Russian Empire (1801), the abolition of Georgian state formations began, and their territories were incorporated directly into Russia.  After the collapse of the Russian Empire (1917), an independent state was re-established – the Georgian Democratic Republic (1918-1921). Formed after the Bolshevik occupation (1921), the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic existed until 1990. After the collapse of the USSR (1991), Georgia became an independent state once again: the Republic of Georgia… read more