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The European "Georgia" probably stems from the Persian designation of the Georgians – gurğ (گرج), ğurğ – which reached the Western European crusaders and pilgrims in the Holy Land who rendered the name as Georgia (also Jorgania, Giorginia, etc.) and, erroneously, [11] explained its origin by the popularity of St. George (Tetri Giorgi ...
Orders, decorations, and medals of Georgia (country) (2 C, 12 P) Pages in category "National symbols of Georgia (country)" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Georgia is a mountainous country situated almost entirely in the South Caucasus, while some slivers of the country are situated north of the Caucasus Watershed in the North Caucasus. [ 179 ] [ 180 ] The country lies between latitudes 41° and 44° N , and longitudes 40° and 47° E , with an area of 67,900 km 2 (26,216 sq mi).
Dzala ertobashia (Georgian: ძალა ერთობაშია, pronounced [ˈdzaɫa ˈeɾtʰobaʃia], "Strength is in Unity") is the official motto of Georgia. Coat of arms of Georgia. It originally comes from a famous fable by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani of the same name. According to this fable, once upon a time there lived a king with ...
During the Soviet period, Georgia adopted several variants of the red Soviet flag incorporating first the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic's name, and later a red hammer and sickle with a star in a blue sun in the canton and a blue bar in the upper part of flag.
Symbol Year and references Image Amphibian: American green tree frog Hyla cinerea: 2005 [1] [2] Art museum Georgia Museum of Art: 1982 [3] Atlas The Atlas of Georgia 1985 [4] Ballet company Atlanta Ballet: 1973 [5] Beef barbecue championship Cook-off The Hawkinsville Civitan Club's "Shoot the Bull" barbecue championship 1997 [6] [7] Bird: Brown ...
Bolnisi cross Bolnisi inscriptions are second oldest extant samples of the Georgian script.The "Bolnisi cross" appears in the center of the inscriptions. The Bolnisi cross (Georgian: ბოლნური ჯვარი bolnuri ǰvari) is a cross symbol, taken from a 5th-century ornament at the Bolnisi Sioni church, which came to be used as a national symbol of Georgia.
This coat of arms was in use by the Democratic Republic of Georgia throughout its existence in 1918–1921. Though the use of Saint George as Georgia's patron saint was by then a long tradition, there were some discussions about other possibilities, the major one being Amiran, as the symbol of Georgia's fight for freedom from the Russian Empire ...