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During the Democratic Republic of Georgia, in accordance with the Project for dividing the territory of Georgia into new administrative units (regions), developed by the Self-Government Commission of the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1920 (Publication of the Committee of the Union of the elected bodies of local ...
Akaki Chkhenkeli, [5] former President of Transcaucasian government, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia; Benia Chkhikvishvili, [6] Social Democrat, former President of Gurian Republic, Mayor of Tbilisi, shot by the Bolsheviks in 1924; Parmen Chichinadze, politician, Minister of War; Kakutsa Cholokashvili, [7] colonel, National Hero of Georgia
This is the list of leaders of Georgia since 1918, during the periods of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921), Soviet Georgia (1921–1991), and current Georgia. For the head of government, see President of Georgia .
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In the chaotic aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Georgia, which was annexed by the Russian Empire since the early 19th century, declared itself an independent Democratic Republic on 26 May 1918, after a brief and loose federative union with the fellow South Caucasian countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Social Democratic Party of Georgia would be founded a year later as a split party but would soon become Georgia's most influential political organization, eventually leading the independence movement and winning a ruling majority during the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Georgian Dream electoral billboard, Tbilisi, August 2016
A loss was sustained by the Georgian émigrés when Karlo Chkheidze committed suicide [7] in 1926 and Noe Ramishvili, [8] the most energetic Georgian émigré politician and president of the first government of Democratic Republic of Georgia, was assassinated by a Bolshevik spy in 1930.
Georgia was the first non-Baltic republic of the Soviet Union to officially declare independence, [97] with Romania becoming the first country to recognize Georgia in August 1991. [98] On 26 May, Gamsakhurdia was elected president in the first presidential election with 86.5% of the vote on a turnout of over 83%.