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The Caucasus country of Georgia
By Mark on August 12, 2008
Georgia is a small country in the northwest Caucasus area of southwest Asia. The country is on borders of Europe and Asia, and faces the black sea, and is separated from Russia, by the Caucasus mountains. And with all the problems going on there this beautiful little country is suffering. About one third of the country is forest, and the climate is subtropical with cool winters and hot summers, very wet in the east and dry in the west. On the coast the country has fruit trees, palms and eucalyptus flourish, where as in the east is treeless grassland, but very rich in minerals.
This is a picture taken from Google Earth of the Caucasus country of Georgia.
This is a satellite image of the capital city of T’blisi in Georgia taken from Google Earth.
The first ever Georgian state with around 2,500 years ago. But for most of the history of Georgia, the country has been ruled by many different conquerors and Christianity was founded in the country around 33oAD. In the 11th and 12th centuries Georgia managed to free herself from foreign rule, but yet again in the 13th century the Mongols attacked and took over the country and from the 16th to 18th centuries Iran and Turkish Ottoman Empire struggled to hold on to control and by the late 18th century Georgia joined Russia for protection. And by the 19th century Georgia was part of the Russian empire. After the Russian revolution in 1917, Georgia claimed independance, but Russia invaded making the country apart of the Russian regime. And in 1991 Georgia declared herself and independent state, it became a separate country when the Soviet Union was dissolved in that year.
This is a picture taken from the capital city of T’bilisi, Georgia on panoramio.
This is another part of the city of T’blisi taken from panoramio.
The capital city of Tblisi lyes on the river Kura, between the Caspian and the black seas. Founded in the 5th century and made a the capital city in the 6th century. The population of the city taken in 2005 was 1,093,000, Tblisi was developed in ancient times as a trading centre for Europe and the East and is supposingly one of the worlds oldest cities. And it has a reasonably good industry with the selling of petroleum products, chemicals, machine tools, locomotives and electrical equipment.
This is a picture taken from panoramio of a beautiful looking park in city of Batumi, southwest of Georgia.
This is a picture taken from panoramio of a sunset in the city of Sukhumi.
What I have learn’t about Georgia is it is a very beautiful looking country when it is not involved in dangerous conflict, but as the history goes this country has spent alot of her life fighting to gain independance. But the problems between them and Russia will probably always occur as the two countries do not always get on well with each other even though the Georgians do alot of trading with Russia. Lets hope that this conflict over South Ossetia which I have just heard on the news Russia have stopped fighting will end soon and that the Georgian and South Ossetian people can get back to their everyday normal life, but i expect it will take time to rebuild some of the building’s and shocking memories.
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
2:56 pm on August 12th, 2008
Absolutely, and it’s nigh on impossible to recover such historical beauty. Of course, that won’t stop the tyrants of the world who are determined to bomb the crap out of anybody who disagrees with them.
10:06 am on August 13th, 2008
Yes thats true. Whatever happens though there will always be trouble. But it now sounds good news and that the fighting has now stopped. Lets hope it lasts and peace can continue there again.
6:09 pm on September 22nd, 2008
I had no idea that this place was so beautiful.
6:35 pm on September 23rd, 2008
I agree freedomwv, it really is a beautiful looking country, but most countries are beautiful in their own way. Thanks for the nice comment.