Georgia europe asia border. That means that the caucasus is not part of europe. The modern border between asia and europe remains a historical and cultural construct defined only by convention. The republic of georgia is located at the intersections of western asia and eastern europe.
Geographically speaking what separates europe from asia and defines the border between the two are the ural mountains and river on the east the aras river on the southeast and finally the bosphorus and the strait of gibraltar on the southern part of the border. On our recent trip to georgia we participated in the first international backgammon tournament for journalists which was sponsored by the gaming group europe bet. Are these countries in asia or in europe.
All of these limits are a result of specific political events in history. A russia georgia border post under construction. The modern border follows the aegean sea the dardanellessea of marmarabosphorus together known as the turkish straits the black sea along the watershed of the greater caucasus the northwestern portion of the caspian sea and along the ural river and ural mountains to.
Von strahlenberg chose the ural mountains in western russia as the hypothetical dividing line between the continents. There are many reasons both great and otherwise for why these three countries are either asian or european. This somewhat isolated cluster of three countries is perpetually the center of a different kind of battle.
Even if we say that the caucasus are the border of europe which. Asia debate but were eager to assay georgian opinion on the issue. None of those countries is europe.
It borders the black sea to the west russia to the north and turkey armenia and azerbaijan to the south. Although there are divisions between europe and asia dating back as far as ancient greece the modern europe asia border was first established in 1725 by a german explorer named philip johan von strahlenberg. Georgia is located in the mountainous south caucasus region of eurasia straddling western asia and eastern europe between the black sea and the caspian seageorgias northern border with russia roughly runs along the crest of the greater caucasus mountain range a commonly reckoned boundary between europe and asiain philip johan von strahlenbergs 1730 definition of europe.
Georgia follows pro western democracy and is a member of the un wto council of europe european bank for reconstruction and development and the.