Coordinates: 42°00′N 43°30′E / 42.000°N 43.500°E /
42.000; 43.500Georgia (Georgian: სრქრრთვáƒ"ლრ,
romanized: sakartvelo; IPA: [sÉ'kÊ°É'rtÊ°vÉ›lÉ"] (listen)) is a
country 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 east by Azerbaijan, and to
the south by Armenia and Turkey. The capital and largest city is
Tbilisi. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 square kilometres
(26,911 sq mi), and its approximate population is about 3.718 million.
Georgia is a unitary parliamentary republic, with the government
elected through a representative democracy.During the classical era,
several independent kingdoms became established in what is now
Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. The Georgians officially adopted
Christianity in the early 4th century. The Georgian Orthodox Church
had enormous importance for the spiritual and political unification of
early Georgian states. The unified Kingdom of Georgia reached its
Golden Age during the reign of King David the Builder and Queen Tamar
the Great in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the
kingdom declined and eventually disintegrated under the hegemony of
various regional powers, including the Mongols, the Ottoman Empire and
successive dynasties of Iran. In the late 18th century, the eastern
Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti forged an alliance with the Russian
Empire, which directly annexed the kingdom in 1801 and conquered the
western Kingdom of Imereti in 1810. Russian rule over Georgia was
eventually acknowledged in various peace treaties with Iran and the
Ottomans and the remaining Georgian territories were absorbed by the
Russian Empire in a piecemeal fashion through the course of the 19th
century.During the Civil War following the Russian Revolution in 1917,
Georgia briefly became part of the Transcaucasian Federation and then
emerged as an independent republic before the Russian army invasion in
1921, which established a government of workers' and peasants'
soviets. Soviet Georgia was incorporated into a new Transcaucasian
Federation and became a founding republic of the Soviet Union in 1922.
In 1936, the Transcaucasian Federation was dissolved and Georgia
emerged as a Union Republic. During World War II, almost 700,000
Georgians fought in the Red Army against the Germans. After Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin, a native Georgian, died in 1953, a wave of
protest spread against Nikita Khrushchev and his de-Stalinization
reforms, leading to the death of nearly one hundred students in 1956.
42.000; 43.500Georgia (Georgian: სრქრრთვáƒ"ლრ,
romanized: sakartvelo; IPA: [sÉ'kÊ°É'rtÊ°vÉ›lÉ"] (listen)) is a
country 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 east by Azerbaijan, and to
the south by Armenia and Turkey. The capital and largest city is
Tbilisi. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 square kilometres
(26,911 sq mi), and its approximate population is about 3.718 million.
Georgia is a unitary parliamentary republic, with the government
elected through a representative democracy.During the classical era,
several independent kingdoms became established in what is now
Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. The Georgians officially adopted
Christianity in the early 4th century. The Georgian Orthodox Church
had enormous importance for the spiritual and political unification of
early Georgian states. The unified Kingdom of Georgia reached its
Golden Age during the reign of King David the Builder and Queen Tamar
the Great in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the
kingdom declined and eventually disintegrated under the hegemony of
various regional powers, including the Mongols, the Ottoman Empire and
successive dynasties of Iran. In the late 18th century, the eastern
Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti forged an alliance with the Russian
Empire, which directly annexed the kingdom in 1801 and conquered the
western Kingdom of Imereti in 1810. Russian rule over Georgia was
eventually acknowledged in various peace treaties with Iran and the
Ottomans and the remaining Georgian territories were absorbed by the
Russian Empire in a piecemeal fashion through the course of the 19th
century.During the Civil War following the Russian Revolution in 1917,
Georgia briefly became part of the Transcaucasian Federation and then
emerged as an independent republic before the Russian army invasion in
1921, which established a government of workers' and peasants'
soviets. Soviet Georgia was incorporated into a new Transcaucasian
Federation and became a founding republic of the Soviet Union in 1922.
In 1936, the Transcaucasian Federation was dissolved and Georgia
emerged as a Union Republic. During World War II, almost 700,000
Georgians fought in the Red Army against the Germans. After Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin, a native Georgian, died in 1953, a wave of
protest spread against Nikita Khrushchev and his de-Stalinization
reforms, leading to the death of nearly one hundred students in 1956.
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