Georgia europe people. Situated at the strategically important crossroads where europe meets asia georgia has a unique and ancient cultural heritage and is famed for its traditions of hospitality and cuisine. As the caucasus mountains are sometimes considered to be the easternmost border of europe the country of georgia is technically located in asia. Ancient greeks homer herodotus strabo plutarch etc and romans titus livius cornelius tacitus etc referred to western georgians as colchians and eastern georgians as iberians.
Ethnically contemporary georgia is not homogeneous but reflects the intermixtures and successions of the caucasus region. The likelihood is great that the georgians whose name for themselves is kartveli georgian derived from the persian name for them gorj have always lived in this region known to them as sakartvelo. Skrtvl is a country in the caucasus region of eurasialocated 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 south by turkey and armenia and to the southeast by azerbaijanthe capital and largest city is tbilisi.
However culturally many people in georgia consider themselves part of europe. During the medieval period a powerful georgian kingdom existed reaching its height between the 10th and 13th centuries. The term georgians is derived from the country of georgia.
The roots of the georgian people extend deep in history. Georgia is in europe not the united states the leafy boulevards of the georgian capital tbilisi look like paris and the english speaking young hipsters wouldnt look out of place in berlin. Determining whether or not georgia is a part of europe or asia is more difficult than it may seem.
Their cultural heritage is equally ancient and rich.