The country of georgia people. 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. They call their country sakartvelo. Georgia is located in the caucasus region of eurasia at the crossroads of western asia and eastern europe.
Located in the caucasus on the continental crossroads of europe and asia the high middle ages saw georgian people form a unified kingdom of georgia in 1008 ad the pan caucasian empire later inaugurating the georgian golden age a height of political and cultural power of the nation. 4 area of georgia excluding abkhazia and south ossetia is 22244 sq miles 57612 sq km. The origins of the countrys name in english are obscure.
3 excludes abkhazia and south ossetia. 2 special recognition is given to the georgian orthodox church. Self identification is based mainly on linguistic tradition and population groups that belong to different ethno linguistic groups such as ossetians abkhazians armenians greeks and kurds are not.
Prior to that it was called the georgian soviet socialist republic. Many georgians are members of the georgian. It covers an area of approximately 26900 square miles and has a population of about 37 million people with the ethnic georgians forming about 86 of the population.
The likelihood is great that the georgians whose name for themselves is kartveli georgian derived. Technically located in asia but having a european feel the country of georgia is a republic that was formerly part of the soviet union. The term georgian does not derive from saint george but from the ancient persian gurg or gorg meaning wolf supposedly a totemic symbol or from the greek georgios farmer cultivator of land.
Georgia isnt called georgia at least not by georgians.