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Legend, Location

I have a strong desire of telling a story of my country, Georgia. The capital city of Georgia is Tbilisi. Foundation of Tbilisi has its own legend.
The legend of foundation of Tbilisi says, that it was founded by the king Vakhtang Gorgasali (Man with a head of wolf) while he was hunting with sparrow-hawk. During the hunt, they saw pheasant. King of the Georgia Vakhtang Gorgasali ordered sparrow-hawk to hunt down the pheasent. After the long battle of birds, king and his servants found them drowned in warm water. Vakhtang decided to found the city there and named it Tbilisi because 'warm' in georgian translates as 'tbili'(Tbilisi).
Let me introduce you the location of georgia. It's located in Caucasian region of Eurasia. It's bounded to the west by black sea, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, to the north by Russia and to the south-east by Azerbaijan. Georgia is parliamentary country. Population of Georgia elects the president for 4 years and it's is the symbol of unity and leader of army.




Classical age, Establishment, Religion

History says, that Georgia was established by several independent kingdom (Colchis; Iberia) during the classical age. Kingdom adopted orthodox Christianity during the 4th century and declined all other religions like zoroastrizm, paganism and etc. During these centuries in Georgia was built millions of cultural sightseengs.






Golden Age

Georgia had a hard times during the history. It was targeted by several enemies, empires, kingdoms and etc. It was destroyed many times, many people died. Muslims tried to convert georgian people on their religion. Many died because of belief and etc. The main reason of this was that georgia was disintegrated into various regions until the 11th century. In 7-10 centuries it was the part of Khazar empire, Conquered by Arabs.
However, Kingdom of Georgia reached its' zenith in 12th-13th centuries, during the kings David IV(David the builder) and Tamar of Georgia, so called King Tamar, 'king of kings'.(Tamar was a first woman ruler, but she was so strong that people called her king, not queen). David the builder drove the Seljuk Turks from country and won several battles. One of them was battle of Didgori in 1121. Tamar's age is called golden age, because Kingdom of Georgia was at the peak of its' zenith.


Tamar of Georgia, 'king of king'


Georgia and Russian Empire


In 1783, King Erekle II of Georgian region Kartl-Khaxeti, signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, which recognized the bond between Russian Empire and Georgia, Russian empire promies Georgia to defend from enemies, help Georgia to be independent. However, when Iranians invaded in 1795, There was no aid from Russian empire. Treaty was breached. In 1801, Russian empire annexed eastern part of Georgia, Kartl-kakheti and forced the last king of united Kingdom of Georgia, George XII to sign the annexetion. Bagrationi, royal dynasty was deported from the kingdom. Bagrationi dynasty was messenger of the god. Age of Bagrationi was over. Nowadays not even one true bagrationi exists.

King George XII


Independence

After the Russian revolution of 1917, In 1918, 26 may, Georgia declared independence. However, After 3 years, in 1921 Russia (Red army) still invaded and annexed Georgia again. Forced it to join in Soviet union. Joseph Stalin was a georgian leader of Soviet union from 1922 until his death on 5 march, 1953.

Red Army


On 9 April 1991, Georgia declared independence shortly before the collapse of Soviet union. Zviad Gamsakhurdia was elected as firs president of Georgia. Second president was Eduard Shevardnadze, Third one was Mikheil Saakashvili and Forth president of georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili.
Georgia lost Abkhazia.
In 2008 when Russia invaded Georgia, country lost 20 percent of its's territory. These terrioties are still occupied by Russia.

Abkhazia





This was all I wanted to say. I know that Georgian history is very big and interesting and I apologise to tell you a short story of it. I hope you will know Georgia better from now on and maybe you will visit it too, one day 🙂 Hope you enjoyed by reading. Comment your opinions and whatever you have to say.

And never forget that

Abkhazia, This is Georgia