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Among Georgia's public universities is the flagship research university, the University of Georgia, founded in 1785 as the country's oldest state-chartered university and the birthplace of the American system of public higher education. [140] The University System of Georgia is the presiding body over public post-secondary education in the state.
Bryan, T. Conn. Confederate Georgia University of Georgia Press, 1953. Chaplin, Joyce E. "Creating a Cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760–1815." Journal of Southern History 57.2 (1991): 171–200 online. Coleman, Kenneth. Confederate Athens, 1861–1865 University of Georgia Press, 1967; the city of Athens in the war years
The college of science and engineering continued as formed in the previous century. Conner Hall became the first building built in South Campus and first of several buildings that housed the university's agriculture programs on what came to be known as "Ag Hill". In 1914, the first Phi Beta Kappa chapter in the state of Georgia was founded at ...
In 1986, the corps of cadets at the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega, Georgia officially adopted the name of the unit as the "Boar's Head Brigade". The name came from the boar's head on the department crest approved by the U.S. Army adjutant general on 11 August 1937.
The Journal of the Earl of Egmont: Abstract of the Trustees Proceedings for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, 1732–1738 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1962). Julie Anne Sweet, Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752 (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2005).
Rüegg, Walter (1992) "Themes" pages 3 to 34 in A History of the University in Europe, Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages edited by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Cambridge University Press. Rüegg, Walter (1996) "Themes" pages 3 to 42 in A History of the University in Europe, Vol. II: Universities in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Hilde de Ridder ...
State university 132 acres (0.53 km 2) Fort Valley State University: Fort Valley: State university, HBCU: 1,365 acres (5.52 km 2) Georgia College & State University: Milledgeville: State university 602 acres (2.44 km 2) Georgia Southwestern State University: Americus: State university 325 acres (1.32 km 2) Middle Georgia State University: Macon ...
Three years later the Georgians conquered Shirvan. As a result, the mostly Christian-populated Gishi-Kabala area in western Shirvan (a relic of the once prosperous Albanian Kingdom) was annexed by Georgia while the rest of already Islamicized Shirvan became Georgia's client-state. In the same year a large portion of Armenia was liberated by ...