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Kingdom of Georgia. Kingdom of Georgia in c. 1220, at the peak of its territorial expansion, superimposed on modern borders. Various Byzantine and Sassanian coins were minted until the 12th century. 1 the full title of the Georgian monarchs after 1124 was " King of Kings, Autocrat of all the East and the West, Sword of the Messiah, King of ...
Georgia covers an area of 69,700 square kilometres (26,900 sq mi). [ 13 ] It has a population of 3.7 million, [ b ][ 14 ] of which over a third live in the capital and largest city, Tbilisi. Georgians, who are native to the region, constitute a majority of the country's population and are its titular nation.
Roads in Georgia (country) Georgia's road network plays an important role in both domestic and international traffic with the four neighboring countries. This is expressed in the road numbering system. The country has a network of 13 internationally oriented trunk highways that connect the capital Tbilisi, home to about a third of the national ...
Evidence for the earliest occupation of the territory of present-day Georgia goes back to c. 1.8 million years ago, as evident from the excavations of Dmanisi in the southeastern part of the country. This is the oldest evidence of humans anywhere in the world outside Africa. Later prehistoric remains (Acheulian, Mousterian, and the Upper ...
The Kingdom of Eastern Georgia was under the direct authority of the Mongol ruler Hulagu Khan (r 1256–1265), founder of the Ilkhanate, and was considered as a vassal of the Īlkhānid state. [ 3 ] [ 20 ] The Mongols also took direct control of the Samtskhe region in southwestern Georgia, as an autonomous principality under Il-khanate rule.
The total length of the road network is approximately 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi) kilometers (2020 [3]), divided over roughly 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) of international trunk roads, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) of domestic main roads and some 12,400 kilometres (7,700 mi) local roads. Only a limited number of kilometers are express roads or ...
Province of Georgia. The Province of Georgia[1] (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen Colonies to support the American Revolution. The original land grant of the Province of Georgia included a narrow strip of land that extended west to the Pacific Ocean. [2]
Map of fragmented Kingdom of Georgia in 1311, with western realm in purple, and the reduced Kingdom of Georgia (1256-1329) in the eastern part of the country, in grey Capital Kutaisi