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Georgian drama
Georgian drama (ქართული დრამატურგია) is the tradition of dramatic literature and theater in the Georgian language, whose written form began in the late 18th century.
Georgian Dream
Georgian Dream (Kartuli Otsneba) is Georgia's ruling party since 2012, founded by Bidzina Ivanishvili to defeat Saakashvili's UNM; after 2024 it suspended EU accession talks and imposed foreign agents and civil-society restrictions.
Georgian era
The Georgian era (1714–1830, often extended to 1837) is the British historical period named for Hanoverian kings George I to George IV, distinguished from the preceding Stuart and following Victorian eras by industrialization, empire, and Georgian architecture.
Georgian Film Studio (ქართული ფილმი)
Georgian Film Studio (Kartuli Pilmi) was the main state film studio of Soviet Georgia, based in Tbilisi. It produced most of the country's films from the 1920s onward.
Georgian folk poetry
Georgian folk poetry (ქართული ხალხური ლექსი) is the orally transmitted verse tradition of the Georgian people, closely bound to song and including historical poems, ballads, and satire.
Georgian Futurism
Georgian Futurism was the branch of the Futurist avant-garde that developed in Tbilisi between 1916 and the late 1920s, centered on the Zdanevich brothers and their groups.
Georgian Golden Age
Georgian Golden Age: the late 11th to early 13th-century peak of the Bagratid kingdom under David the Builder and Queen Tamar (1184–1213), spanning the Caucasus, producing Rustaveli's epic, and ending with the Mongol invasions of the 1220s.
Georgian hagiography
Georgian hagiography is the body of medieval Georgian literature recounting the sufferings of martyrs and lives of saints, written from the 5th century; its earliest work is the Martyrdom of Shushanik.
Georgian kuponi lari
The Georgian kuponi lari, ISO code GEK, was Georgia's interim paper currency from April 1993 to October 1995, replaced by the new lari at one million coupons to one.
Georgian language
Georgian (kartuli, ქართული), official language of Georgia, is the main Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language alongside Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz, with a 5th-century literary tradition, complex verb morphology, and 85.1% mother-tongue share per the 2024 census.
Georgian lari
The Georgian lari (Georgian: ლარი) is the currency of Georgia, issued by the National Bank of Georgia and divided into 100 tetri. It replaced the coupon currency in 1995.
Georgian modernism
Georgian modernism (ქართული მოდერნიზმი) is the modernist movement in Georgian literature and the visual arts, formed in the 1910s and flourishing during Georgia's independence (1918–1921), centered on Tiflis, before suppression under Soviet rule.
Georgian National Council
The Georgian National Council, a legislative body elected by the Georgian National Congress in November 1917, proclaimed Georgia's independence on May 26, 1918, before becoming the Parliament of Georgia in 1918.
Georgian national olympic committee
Georgian National Olympic Committee (საქართველოს ეროვნული ოლიმპიური კომიტეტი), Georgia's NOC, founded 1989 in Tbilisi, fully recognized by the IOC in 1993; first independent Games Lillehammer 1994; president Leri Khabelov.
Georgian novel
The Georgian novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in the Georgian language, emerging as a modern form in the nineteenth century under Russian rule.
Georgian Orthodox Church
The Georgian Orthodox Church, also known as the Church of Georgia, is the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church of Georgia, headed by a Catholicos-Patriarch at Mtskheta.
Georgian Partners
Georgian Partners is a Toronto-based growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Justin LaFayette, Simon Chong, and John Berton, investing in B2B software companies including Shopify.
Georgian realism
Georgian realism is the realist tradition of Georgian literature, established in the second half of the 19th century under Russian rule by the Tergdaleulebi generation led by Ilia Chavchavadze.
Georgian Romanticism
Georgian Romanticism (ქართული რომანტიზმი) is the national variant of literary Romanticism that emerged in Georgia in the early 19th century under Russian rule, led by Aleksandre Chavchavadze and Nikoloz Baratashvili.
Georgian scripts
Georgian scripts (ქართული დამწერლობა): Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri, and Mkhedruli, three related alphabets writing Georgian since the 5th century; Mkhedruli is the modern standard, all three UNESCO-listed heritage.
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა)
Georgian SSR (საქართველოს სსრ), Soviet republic in Georgia 1921–1991; part of the TSFSR 1922–1936, then a union republic with Abkhaz ASSR, Adjarian ASSR, and South Ossetian AO; independence restored 9 April 1991.
Georgian Symbolism
Georgian Symbolism (ქართული სიმბოლიზმი) was a literary movement founded in Georgia in 1916, led by the Order of the Blue Horns poets Titsian Tabidze and Paolo Iashvili.
Georgian wine
Georgian wine is wine produced in Georgia, home to the earliest known evidence of grape wine, around 6000 BC, and the traditional qvevri clay-vessel method.
Georgian Writers' Union
The Georgian Writers' Union (საქართველოს მწერალთა კავშირი) is the professional organization of writers in Georgia, continuing a writers' organization founded in 1917 through Soviet and post-Soviet reorganizations.
Georgian–Armenian War
The Georgian–Armenian War was a short border conflict fought in December 1918 between the newly independent republics of Georgia and Armenia, largely over control of the disputed Lori and Akhalkalaki districts.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Spencer, 1757–1806), English aristocrat and Whig campaigner who canvassed for Charles James Fox in the 1784 Westminster election, advised George IV, collected minerals, and wrote The Sylph.
Georgiana Howard, Countess of Carlisle
Georgiana Howard, Countess of Carlisle (Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish, 1783-1858), daughter of the 5th Duke of Devonshire and Georgiana Spencer; wife of the 6th Earl of Carlisle, mother of twelve, lived at Castle Howard.
Georgiana Young
Georgiana Young (born Georgiana Paula Belzer) was an American actress and model, half-sister of Loretta Young, who was married to actor Ricardo Montalbán from 1944 until her death in 2007.
Georgians
Georgians (Kartvelebi, ქართველები) are the South Caucasus nation forming the majority of Georgia, speakers of Kartvelian languages with three alphabets, ancient Colchis and Iberian roots, and a global diaspora.
Georgic
A georgic is a didactic or descriptive poem about labor, especially agricultural labor, named for Virgil's four-part Georgics; in English literature the form flourished between the mid-seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries.