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Tourists can without tiring and long trips visit the countryside. Living in a comfortable hotel in Kutaisi. You dear traveler,can see some very interesting regions, such as:Racha, Lechkhumi, Samegrelo, Svaneti, Guria, Shida Kartli,where no suitable accommodation.
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Georgians,as an ethnic group,identify themselves as Kartveli/Kartvelians and call their land Sakartvelo or land of the Kartvels. Popular tradition ascribed these names to a legendary hero named Kartlos, said to be the father of all Georgians; scholars, however, agree that the term is derived from the Karts,one of the proto-Georgian tribes that gradually emerged as a dominant group. Georgians are known to the Armenians as virk and the Persians called them gurg/gurdzhi,which was later corrupted into the Turkish gürc. Russian Gruziia and Western European Georgia were derived from the Persian and Turkish words gurg/gürc. However, popular theories purport that the name stems either from the widespread veneration of St. George, who is considered the patron of Georgia, or from the Greek georgos (farmer) because when the Greeks first reached the country they encountered a developed agriculture in ancient Colchis.
 Geography
With the notable exception of the fertile plain of the Kolkhida Lowland (ancient Colchis) the .Georgian terrain is largely mountainous, and more than a third is covered by forest or brushwood. There is a remarkable variety of landscape, ranging from the subtropical Black .Sea shores to the ice and snow of the crest line of the Caucasus. Such contrasts are made more noteworthy by the country`s relatively small area.The rugged Georgia terrain may be divided into three bands, al l running from east to west. To the north lies the wall of the Greater Caucasus range,consisting of a series of parallel and transverse mountain belts rising eastward and often separated by deep,wild gorges. Spectacular crest-line peaks include those of Mount Shkhara, which at 16,627 feet (5,068 metres) is the highest point in Georgia, and Mounts Rustaveli, Tetnuldi, and Ushba, all of which are above 15,000 feet. The cone of theextinct Mkinvari (Kazbek) volcano dominates the northernmost Bokovoy range from a height of 16,512 feet. (Read More... )
 Climate The Caucasus Mountains protect Georgia from cold air intrusions from the north, while the .country is open to the constant influence of warm, moist air from the Black Sea. Western Georgia has a humid subtropical, maritime climate, while eastern Georgia has a range of climate varying from moderately humid to a dry subtropical type. (Read More... )
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Silver Cup BC. Sec. XVIII
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Official name
Sakartvelo ("Land of Georgians")
Georgia (in English)
Géorgie (in French)
Gurjistan (in Turkish, Persian)
General Statistics
Location: Georgia occupies the center and the west of Southern Caucasia (also known as Transcaucasia), bordering in the north - Russian Federation, in the east - Republic of Azerbaijan, in the south - Republic of Armenia and in the south west –Turkey .(Read more...)
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(This material is from A. Mikaberidze`s Historical Dictionary of Georgia (2007)
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General Statistics
Location: Georgia occupies the center and the west of Southern Caucasia (also known as Transcaucasia), bordering in the north - Russian Federation, in the east - Republic of Azerbaijan, in the south - Republic of Armenia and in the south west - Turkey.
Area [sq.km]: 69,700
Time: 9 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard; 4 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean
Land Borders: 908 miles
Coastline: 193 miles
Currency: 1 Lari = 100 tetri Official
Language: Georgian (Georgian and Abkhaz in the Region of Abkhazia)
Religion: Christian Orthodox 88% (Georgian Orthodox 83%, Armenian Apostolic 3,9%), Muslim 9,9% Capital - Tbilisi (founded in c. 454 CE)
Major cities: Tbilisi; Kutaisi, Sokhumi, Batumi, , Rustavi.
Population
Ethnic Georgians constitute about 84% of the population. The Largest minority communities are the Azeris, Armenians, and Russians, although there are a few small but politically important minority groups as well.
Ethnic Composition: Georgian - 83.8%; Azeri - 6.5%; Armenian - 5.7%; Russian – 1.5%; Ossetian - 0.9%; Abkhaz - 0.1%; other - 1.5%.
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A 5th-century plate from
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