By Alexander Mikaberidze
Positioned within the breathtaking Caucasus Mountains among the Black and the Caspian Seas, the rustic of Georgia sits on the crossroads among Europe and Asia; it has passed through extra turbulence and alter within the final 15 years—the getting rid of of the Soviet regime, a civil warfare, ethno-territorial conflicts, financial cave in, corruption, executive inefficiency, and big emigration—than such a lot international locations battle through in a hundred and fifty years. notwithstanding, regardless of all its hardships, this resilient and historic state, with millions of years of winemaking, three-thousand years of statehood, and nearly millennia of Christianity, maintains to outlive, and with the recent government's reforms, gives you to improve.Scholar Alexander Mikaberidze has created a useful resource at the lengthy and turbulent background of Georgia. The old Dictionary of Georgia, via its chronology, word list, creation, appendixes, maps, bibliography, and hundreds and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on very important people, locations, occasions, and associations and critical political, monetary, social, and cultural points, strains Georgia's heritage and offers a compass for the path the rustic is heading.
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Qxd 4 • 2/28/07 5:23 AM Page 4 INTRODUCTION the rest of the country. The Mingrelians, who call their region Samargalo (Samegrelo, Mingrelia) and themselves Margali, live on the plains north of the Rioni River and west of Tskhenistskali River. The indomitable Svans inhabit the mountains of Svaneti, above Mingrelia, including valleys of Inguri, Tskhenistskali, and Keladula rivers. The Laz/Chans originally populated the entire southwestern coastline of the Black Sea. However, after the arrival of the Ottoman Turks, they were gradually restricted to an area between Samsung, Kars, and Batumi.
Married to a Persian princess, Vakhtang participated in the Persian campaigns against the Byzantine Empire between 455 and 458 but later grew irritated with the Persian interference in his affairs. In 482, he, in alliance with the Armenians, led an uprising against Persia, but internal dissension and the failure to secure help from Byzantine Emperor Justinian doomed the rebellion; Georgia was ravaged by the Persian punitive expeditions in 483 and 484. qxd 2/28/07 5:23 AM Page 13 INTRODUCTION • 13 uprising that proved to be more successful.
When the Byzantine Emperor Maurice attacked Persia in 582, Georgian nobles supported him in hopes of restoring the kingship in Iberia. Iberian autonomy was restored in 588, but Emperor Maurice appointed a curopalates (presiding prince) instead of a king. The first curopalates, Guaram (588–602) and his heirs were caught between the warring Persia and Byzantium. In 591, Constantinople and the Sasanid Empire agreed to divide Iberia between them, with Tbilisi remaining in Persian hands and Mtskheta, the old capital, under Byzantine control.