Developer: Historyoftheworld
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Georgia is a country located on the borders of Europe and Asia, in the Caucasus region. It has a very long history that spans several millennia and centuries, some of which were very decisive in regional history. One of the cradles of civilization near Mesopotamia and Egypt, its soil welcomed the world's first known hominids outside Africa more than 1.5 million years ago and developed many cultures very early on. which extended to its neighbors. Desired for its strategic position since the birth of the nation in antiquity, Georgia was for a very long time only a pretext for dispute between the superpowers that surrounded it, from the Hellenistic Empire to Russia, passing through the Persian kingdoms, Arabs, Roman Empire, Turks, Mongols, and Persians.
Having become Christian in 337 (then taking the title of the third nation to choose Christianity as its state religion), ancient Georgia, known as Iberia, was divided at the end of the sixth century and broke up into several principalities which were finally reunited in the eleventh century under the scepter of Bagrat III. Gradually, the new kingdom of Georgia developed and reached its peak in the 13th century, under the reigns of the powerful monarchs George III and his daughter Tamar. However, the invasions of foreign enemies soon completed the glory of the Caucasian power and nothing more prevented the division into four different entities of Georgia at the end of the 15th century.
From then on, the Georgian regions found themselves divided into the spheres of influence of the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Persia. This created chaos in the whole Caucasus which soon had to change sides to find itself absorbed into the Russian imperial globe in the 19th century. After a century of cultural development, Georgia regained its independence for a short period under the short-lived name of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, before falling under the domination of the Soviet Union, of which it was one of the 15 republics. In the era known for giving birth to the communist dictator Joseph Stalin, nationalist feelings were harshly suppressed by the Soviet authorities, hence the declaration of independence in April 1991. At this time, Georgia achieved its supreme autonomy in a great period of trouble,
