Georgia Profile
History, Economy, and Foreign Relations
Georgia’s recorded history dates back more than 2,500 years. Georgian, a South Caucasian (or “Kartvelian) language unrelated to any other outside the immediate region, is one of the oldest living languages in the world and has its own distinctive alphabet. Tbilisi, located in the picturesque Mtkvari River valley, is more than 1,500 years old. In the early fourth century, Georgia adopted Christianity, the second nation in the world to do so officially. Georgia hashistorically found itself on the margins of great empires, and Georgians havelived together in a unified state for only a small fraction of their existenceas a…
