Abkhazia and South Ossetia have seceded unilaterally from Georgia and would be given autonomous status if Georgia's territorial integrity were restored.

Georgia's Way has said it intends to have candidates for all the seats in Georgia's upcoming local elections, with Zourabichvili hoping to become Tbilisi Mayor.

On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed the amendment to have been adopted on December 6, 1865, when Georgia's ratification brought the total number of states to ratify to 27 of the then 36 states.

Many of Georgia's most notable residents have come from Milledgeville.

Opponents of Georgia's transportation policies have alleged a race-based two-tiered system, where billions are spent by the state on highway expansion to aid the commutes of mostly Caucasian residents of the suburbs and rural areas ( like GRIP ), while service cuts at MARTA have hurt mostly African Americans.

Marshall's language in Worcester may have been motivated by his regret that his earlier opinions in Fletcher and Johnson had been used as a justification for Georgia's actions.

Others, such as former Georgia athletic director Damon Evans, have dismissed the idea that Georgia's recent losing record is due to the game being played in Jacksonville.

The Georgian authorities have seized the opportunity, since the 4 January presidential election, to further bring Georgia's election process in closer alignment with European standards for democratic elections, including OSCE commitments and Council of Europe standards ," the report said.

The Georgia Court of Appeals recently ruled that Walker County Georgia does not have a claim under Georgia's Hazardous Site Response Act.

Furthermore, four prominent remaining Blue Dogs, Dennis Cardoza of California, Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Mike Ross of Arkansas, and Heath Shuler of North Carolina have announced their retirement ; one member, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, is running for Senate ( partially due to Republican redistricting efforts ); and more members, such as North Carolina's Mike McIntyre as well as Georgia's John Barrow, have been or will be targeted by Republicans in redistricting efforts.

Some reporters have credited Zubr's leaders with the idea of a ' Denim Revolution ', which, they hoped would attract popular support as Ukraine's Orange Revolution and Georgia's Rose Revolution.

The irregularly shaped district, which stretched from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean was created to encompass enough of Georgia's African-American population to create a district where an African-American would have a high chance of being elected.

Ellis Arnall wrote: ' You have my permission to quote me as making the following observation: Documentary evidence uncovered by Stetson Kennedy has facilitated Georgia's prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan.

During Alexander Lukashenko's inauguration ( ceremony ) as President of Belarus of 22 January 2011 Lukashenko vowed that Belarus would never have its own version of the Orange Revolution and Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution.

Howly was a devout Roman Catholic at a time when Catholic sacraments were not available in Georgia, and so he sought to have priests from Spanish Florida come administer to Georgia's Catholics.

The Georgia typeface is similar to Times New Roman, but with many subtle differences: Georgia is larger than Times at the same point size, and has a greater x-height at the same actual size ; Times New Roman is slightly narrower, with a more vertical axis ; and Georgia's serifs are slightly wider and have blunter, flatter ends.

Such movements have had a measure of success, as for example in Serbia's Bulldozer Revolution ( 2000 ); in Georgia's Rose Revolution ( 2003 ); and in Ukraine's Orange Revolution ( 2004 ).

June 29, 1998: The Council on School Performance releases a study that concludes: " We found that recipients of Georgia's HOPE Scholarship are more likely to remain enrolled in college, have higher college grade point averages and have earned more credit hours than students without the scholarship.

One day, after the Khevsur village was invaded by the Kists ( Ingush, in classical Georgian works, despite the name of the modern group of Chechen Georgians in Georgia's name being the " Kist ", Kist actually referred to the Ingush ; the name for Chechens was the " Dzurdzuks "; however, Ingush were less likely to raid then Chechens due to socioeconomic factors, so it may have very well been a Chechen nonetheless ), Aluda followed the invaders and killed both of the robbers.

Similar honors have been issued for Georgia's militia navy, which has only existed on paper since 1908.

Upper Lars is the only land border crossing that does not go through Georgia's Russian-backed breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

From 2007 to 2008, 14 of Georgia's counties ranked among the nation's 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas.

Of Georgia's 159 counties, Hart County is the only one named after a woman, Nancy Hart.

As the Georgia State Constitution forbids banishment beyond the borders of the state, officials instead ban the offender from 158 of Georgia's 159 counties, with Echols remaining as their only option.

As of 2003, Savannah / Hilton Head had 96, 816 annual operations ( takeoffs and landings ) and 887, 095 passenger enplanements, making it second only to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as Georgia's busiest commercial airport.

Although minority groups had participated actively in Georgia's return to democracy, they were underrepresented in the results of the October 1990 elections with only nine of 245 deputies being non-Georgians.

The most frequently cited reason is Georgia's 4 – 18 win-loss record in the series since 1990, leading to questions about whether Jacksonville, located from Athens but only from Gainesville, is truly a neutral site.

Marshall thus became the only white Democrat in Georgia's House delegation, and the first since Nathan Deal switched parties in 1995.

Over a roughly four-year period, Boudinot's editorials emphasized that Georgia's disregard of the Constitution and past federal treaties with the Cherokees would not only hurt Cherokee progress in acculturating, but threatened the fabric of the Union.

In presidential races, Georgia has not given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate only four times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket ; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 ; and then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won a plurality of votes in 1992 against incumbent Republican George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.

The counties shown in red are wholly located within Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain, while only portions of the salmon-colored counties are within the subregion.

The Megaplier option, initially available only in Texas, was made available to Georgia's players on November 7, 2010.

The United States Supreme Court struck down Georgia's laws as unconstitutional in its 1832 rulings in Worcester v. Georgia, ruling that only the federal government had the right to deal with the Native American tribes, and the states had no right to pass legislation regulating their activities.

Fulton County had 14. 11 % of Georgia's population at that time, but only 1. 46 % ( 6 unit votes ) of the 410 Unit Votes.

The matter of taxation came before Elbert early in April, 1785, when William Houston, Georgia's delegate to the United States Congress, wrote a letter informing him that New York and Georgia were the only states that had not conceded the right to levy these taxesthat feeling against Georgia in the national capital New York City at the time was very high, even going so far as to threaten to vote Georgia out of the Union.

He was a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Georgian Literature of the Georgian Academy of Sciences ( 1973 – 1977, 1985 – 1990 ), Associate Professor of the Tbilisi State University ( 1973 – 1975, 1985 – 1990 ) and member of the Union of Georgia's Writers ( 1966 – 1977, 1985 – 1991 ), PhD in the field of Philology ( 1973 ) and Doctor of Sciences ( Full Doctor, 1991 ).

However, despite most past big games being played at Legion Field, Bryant – Denny Stadium has hosted many memorable games, such as the 1994 shootout between Alabama's Jay Barker and Georgia's Eric Zeier, Marvin Constant's goal-line stop against LSU quarterback Josh Booty as time expired in 1999, Tyrone Prothro's reception over the back of Southern Miss defensive back Jasper Faulk in 2005, a 31 – 3 victory over No. 5 Florida in 2005, the Roman Harper-forced fumble against Tennessee in 2005 that helped the Tide to victory, Alabama's 36-0 shutout victory against Auburn in 2008 thus breaking the six-game losing streak and first ever Iron Bowl victory in Bryant – Denny Stadium, and Terrence Cody's field goal block against Tennessee as time expired in 2009.

The 200-member marching band is among Georgia's – most successful programs, with a reputation for staging highly entertaining field shows that annually win state and regional championships.

Thus, there was a revolt among the mountaineers of Pkhovi and Dido on Georgia's northeastern frontier in 1212, which was put down by Ivane Mkhargrdzeli after three months of heavy fighting.

Douglas also saw the issue as a continuation of the earlier decision Gray v. Sanders, which had struck down Georgia's County Unit System, a kind of electoral college formerly used to choose the governor.

But the Bulldogs seemed to come alive in the third quarter, mounting a long drive ; however, Georgia's drive died in the shadow of the Gators ' goal line when they were stuffed on fourth down, checking the Bulldogs momentarily but pinning the Gators deep in their own territory.

* 21 — The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Hardwick v. Bowers strikes down the state of Georgia's sodomy law as unconstitutional.

In other down ballot races, Republicans gained Georgia's Class III U. S. Senate seat which was then held by Zell Miller ( D ) with Johnny Isakson's ( R ) victory in the open seat race to succeed him and also gained control of the Georgia House of Representatives, and thus control of both houses of the Georgia General Assembly ( having already gained control of the Georgia State Senate in 2002 ), for the first time since reconstruction.

The house was occupied by Major William Horton during the British colonial period, who also brewed beer in Georgia's first brewery ( the ruins of which are a few hundred yards down the road ).