Archaeological research demonstrates that Georgia has been involved in commerce with many lands and empires since ancient times, largely due its location on the Black Sea and later on the historical Silk Road. Other notable basketball players are two times Euroleague champion Giorgi Shermadini and Euroleague players Manuchar Markoishvili and Viktor Sanikidze. [347] Counterfeiting problems stem from mislabelling by foreign producers and falsified Georgian Wine labels on wines produced outside of Georgia and imported into Russia under the auspices of being Georgian produced. Georgia, Georgian Sakartvelo, country of Transcaucasia located at the eastern end of the Black Sea on the southern flanks of the main crest of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. The colony's corporate charter was granted to [149], On 1 October 2021, former President Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested on his return from exile. Mikheil Saakashvili was elected as President of Georgia in 2004. On 26 May 2012, Saakashvili inaugurated a new Parliament building in the western city of Kutaisi, in an effort to decentralize power and shift some political control closer to Abkhazia. Access to higher education is given to students who have gained a secondary school certificate. NGO "Tolerance", in its alternative report about its implementation, speaks of a rapid decrease in the number of Azerbaijani schools and cases of appointing headmasters to Azerbaijani schools who do not speak the Azerbaijani language. [134][135], In October 2013, Giorgi Margvelashvili, a candidate of the Georgian Dream party, won the presidential election. Political tensions with Russia have contributed to the 2006 Russian embargo of Georgian wine, Russia claimed Georgia produced counterfeit wine. [166] The majority of Georgians and politicians in Georgia support the push for NATO membership. The Georgian army was defeated and the Social Democratic government fled the country. [269] Passenger services are operated by the state-owned Georgian Railway whilst freight operations are carried out by a number of licensed operators. Located on the crossroads of protracted RomanPersian wars, the early Georgian kingdoms disintegrated into various feudal regions by the early Middle Ages. For the U.S. state, see. Its autonomous status was revoked in 1990. Start with DRIVES Georgia Tax Center The one-stop shop for electronic filing and paying taxes. [180] STC Delta now produces a variety of military equipment, including armoured vehicles, artillery systems, aviation systems, personal protection equipment, and small arms. Visit GTC Register a New Business Starting a new business in Georgia? referred to early western Georgians as Colchians and eastern Georgians as Iberians (Iberoi, in some Greek sources). In the original grant, a narrow strip of the province extended to the Pacific Ocean.. From 1,5001,800 metres (4,9215,906ft), the forest becomes largely coniferous. [296] Of the Meskhetian Turks who were forcibly relocated in 1944, only a tiny fraction returned to Georgia as of 2008[update]. This period during the reigns of David IV (r. 10891125) and his great-granddaughter Tamar (r. 11841213) has been widely termed as Georgia's Golden Age or the Georgian Renaissance. [286] On the basis of that back-projection, Geostat has corrected its data for these years. [46] This early Georgian renaissance, which preceded its Western European analogue, was characterized by impressive military victories, territorial expansion, and a cultural renaissance in architecture, literature, philosophy and the sciences. Their cause was championed by the socialist Mensheviks, who became the dominant political force in Georgia in the final years of Russian rule. [254] Since 2014, unemployment has been gradually decreasing each year but remained in double digits and worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael W. Hughey, Springer, Mar 29, 2016. [306] In the first half of the 4th century, Christianity was adopted as the state religion of Iberia (present-day Kartli, or eastern Georgia), following the missionary work of Saint Nino of Cappadocia. [272][273], Air and maritime transport is developing in Georgia, with the former mainly used by passengers and the latter for transport of freight. [139] Most of Georgian Dream's coalition parties had left the coalition and landed outside of parliament. The spider checklist of Georgia, for example, includes 501 species. [147], In February 2021, Irakli Garibashvili became Prime Minister of Georgia, following the resignation of Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia. Before sharing sensitive or personal information, make sure youre on an official state website. Georgia's online vehicle registration and titling system. The large majority of the forests that covered the Colchis plain are now virtually non-existent with the exception of the regions that are included in the national parks and reserves (e.g. Lifestyle and standard of living are two reasons Georgia continues to attract Fortune 500 companies and the skilled, educated workforce those businesses and others need to succeed. It was one of the first countries in the world to legalize cannabis, becoming the only former-socialist state to do so. "Dictionary of the Fungi". [31] In 2013, UNESCO added the ancient traditional Georgian winemaking method using the Kvevri clay jars to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.[31][32]. Having vanquished both a Donald Trump-backed Republican challenger and Democratic star Stacey Abrams to win reelection, Kemp is looking to expand his influence in his second term, free from the caricature of the gun-toting, pickup-driving, migrant-catching country boy that emerged during his first campaign for governor. The Georgian railways represent an important transport artery for the Caucasus, as they make up the largest proportion of a route linking the Black and Caspian Seas. [333], The Georgian language, and the Classical Georgian literature of the poet Shota Rustaveli, were revived in the 19th century after a long period of turmoil, laying the foundations of the romantics and novelists of the modern era such as Grigol Orbeliani, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Ilia Chavchavadze, Akaki Tsereteli, and Vazha-Pshavela. [106], Russia accused Georgia of "aggression against South Ossetia",[107] and launched a large-scale land, air and sea invasion of Georgia with the pretext of "peace enforcement" operation on 8 August 2008. [citation needed], In 2005, President Mikheil Saakashvili fired the entire traffic police force (numbering around 30,000 police officers) of the Georgian National Police due to corruption. Georgia (country) Coordinates: 4200N 4330E Georgia ( Georgian: , romanized: Sakartvelo; IPA: [skrtvl] ( listen)) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. These artillery attacks immediately caused Georgian servicemen to return fire periodically. [23], Today the official name of the country is Georgia, as specified in the Georgian constitution which reads "Georgia is the name of the state of Georgia. [74], The 1918 GeorgianArmenian War, which erupted over parts of disputed provinces between Armenia and Georgia populated mostly by Armenians, ended because of British intervention. [255] A perception of economic stagnation led to a 2019 survey of 1,500 residents finding unemployment was considered a significant problem by 73% of respondents, with 49% reporting their income had decreased over the prior year. [78] The Georgian uprising on Texel against the Germans was the last battle of the Second World War in Europe. Consecutive research estimated the 2002 census to be inflated by 8 to 9 percent,[285] which affected the annually updated population estimates in subsequent years. Saakashvili believed in 2008 that the country is "on the road to becoming a European democracy. With the completed transfer of power, Prime Minister Ivanishvili stepped aside and named one of his close business associates as next Prime Minister. Georgia puts it all within reach, and there is no one Georgia experience. [192], The new Patruli force was first introduced in the summer of 2005 to replace the traffic police, a force which was accused of widespread corruption. [93][96][97][98][99], On 7 August 2008, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili announced a unilateral ceasefire and called for peace talks. Against the expectations of the then ruling United National Movement (UNM) of president Mikheil Saakashvili, the 6-party opposition coalition around newly found Georgian Dream won the parliamentary elections in October 2012, bringing an end to nine years of UNM rule and marking the first peaceful, electoral, transfer of power in Georgia. The only remaining large, low-land forests remain in the Alazani Valley of Kakheti. [221], Georgia is a mountainous country situated almost entirely in the South Caucasus, while some slivers of the country are situated north of the Caucasus Watershed in the North Caucasus. This made it easy for the remaining Georgian realms to fall victim to the early Muslim conquests in the 7th century. Tbilisi is home to several major institutions of higher education in Georgia, notably the Tbilisi State Medical University, which was founded as Tbilisi Medical Institute in 1918, and the Tbilisi State University (TSU), which was established in 1918 and remains the oldest university in the entire Caucasus region. [177], Georgia applied for EU membership on 3 March 2022, soon after the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. For much of the 20th century, Georgia's economy was within the Soviet model of command economy. Sport is regaining its popularity in the country in recent years. Peter Lang. The executive branch of power is made up of the Cabinet of Georgia. Or, in front of a mural in Atlanta, or a bowl of shrimp and grits in Savannah. 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