* Shorena Kurtsikidze & Vakhtang Chikovani, Ethnography and Folklore of the Georgia-Chechnya Border: Images, Customs, Myths & Folk Tales of the Peripheries, Munich: Lincom Europa, 2008.

* KURTSIKIDZE, Shorena & CHIKOVANI, Vakhtang, Ethnography and Folklore of the Georgia-Chechnya Border: Images, Customs, Myths & Folk Tales of the Peripheries, Munich: Lincom Europa, 2008

It deals with the tragic fate of the devoted architect Konstantine Arsakidze, from whom King Giorgi I commissions a cathedral, but Arsakidze becomes the king ’ s rival in love for the beautiful Shorena, a daughter of the rebellious nobleman.

Telavi serves as the hometown of the Georgian bush pilot Mimino ( Vakhtang Kikabidze ) in the 1977 Soviet comedy Mimino.

* The city of Tbilisi ( Georgia ) on the Kura River is founded by king Vakhtang I of Iberia.

** Vakhtang III of Georgia ( b. 1276 )

* Vakhtang III of Georgia ( d. 1308 )

The Georgian Chronicle, a 13th century compilation drawing from earlier sources, reports a marriage of Vakhtang I of Iberia to Princess Helena of Byzantium, identifying her as a daughter of the predecessor of Zeno.

* Georgian defector and composer Vakhtang Jordania resided in Broadway and died in 2004.

The art of carpet weaving was in addition intimately connected to the making of curtains as evidenced in a passage by Kirakos Gandzaketsi, a 13th century Armenian historian from Artsakh, who praised Arzu-Khatun, the wife of regional prince Vakhtang Khachenatsi, and her daughters for their expertise and skill in weaving.

The Georgian Chronicle, a 13th century compilation drawing from earlier sources, reports a marriage of Vakhtang I of Iberia to Princess Helena of Byzantium, identifying her as a daughter of the predecessor of Zeno.

Flag of Iberia in 5th century, during the reign of King Vakhtang I Gorgasali.

The early reign of the Iberian king Vakhtang I dubbed Gorgasali ( 447-502 ) was marked by the relative revival of the kingdom.

Greatest representatives of Georgian culture of the 19th century were: Nikoloz Baratashvili ( poet ), Alexander Orbeliani ( writer ), Vakhtang Orbeliani ( poet ), Dimitri Kipiani ( writer ), Grigol Orbeliani ( poet ), Ilia Chavchavadze ( writer and poet ), Akaki Tsereteli ( poet ), Alexander Kazbegi ( writer ), Rapiel Eristavi ( poet ), Mamia Gurieli ( poet ), Iakob Gogebashvili ( writer ), Simon Gugunava ( poet ), Babo Avalishvili-Kherkheulidze ( actor ), Nikoloz Avalishvili ( actor ), Nikoloz Aleksi-Meskhishvili ( actor ), Romanoz Gvelesiani ( painter ), Grigol Maisuradze ( painter ), Alexander Beridze ( painter ), Ivane Machabeli ( translator ), Okropir Bagrationi ( translator ), Sardion Aleksi-Meskhishvili ( translator ), Kharlampi Savaneli ( opera singer ), Pilimon Koridze ( opera singer ), Lado Agniashvili ( folk singer ), Alioz Mizandari ( composer ), etc.

But in mid-2001 he became involved in a major controversy with the State Security Minister Vakhtang Kutateladze and Tbilisi police chief Ioseb Alavidze, accusing them of profiting from corrupt business deals.

The king of Kartli, Vakhtang Gorgasali, who sought alliance with Byzantium against the Persians, accepted the Henotikon, a compromise attempt put forward by Byzantine Emperor Zeno in 482.

King Dachi I Ujarmeli ( beginning of the 6th century AD ), who was the successor of Vakhtang I Gorgasali, moved the capital from Mtskheta to the more easily defensible Tbilisi according to the will left by his father.

A son of King Vakhtang VI of Kartli ( ruled 1716-1724 ), he was born in Tbilisi, 1696.

After the Ottoman occupation of Kartli, he followed King Vakhtang in his emigration to the Russian Empire in 1724.

Vakhushti was critical of the re-edition of the corpus assembled by a scholarly commission chaired by his father Vakhtang VI.

He also completed, together with his brother, Prince Bakar, the printing of the Bible in Georgian, which he had been only partly done by their father, Vakhtang VI.

Later revised by Agrippina Vaganova for the dancers Galina Ulanova and Vakhtang Chabukiani and added to the ballet La Esmeralda in 1931.

Today the Le Corsaire Pas de deux is presented in versions derived from the revisions of Agrippina Vaganova ( 1931 ) and Vakhtang Chabukiani ( circa 1940 ), among many others.

It was premiered at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad on 7 November, 1932, with Natalia Dudinskaya as Mireille de Poitiers, Vakhtang Chabukiani as Jerome, Olga Jordan as Jeanne, Nina Anisimova as Therese, and Konstantin Sergeyev as Mistral.

During the reign of Vakhtang Gorgasali ( 5th century ) Rustavi took an important part in the political life of Georgia.

Since then a Bishopricpulpit had been founded in Rustavi and of the bishops out of twelve was sanctified according to the wish of Vakhtang Gorgasali.

The churches of Kartli acted against the King Vakhtang Gorgasali as they were under the influence of Persia.

* 1966 – Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet ( b. 1902 )

Giorgi Kvinitadze (;, Georgy Ivanovich Kvinitadze ; his real surname was Chikovani, ჩიქოვანი ) ( August 21, 1874 — August 7, 1970 ) was a Georgian military commander who rose from an officer in the Imperial Russian army to commander-in-chief of the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

The program implemented President Bush's decision to respond to the Government of Georgia's request for assistance to enhance its counter-terrorism capabilities and addressed the situation in the Pankisi Gorge.

In late July 2006, Saakashvili's government managed to deal successfully with another major crisis, this time in Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge where Georgia's police forces disarmed a defiant militia led by a local warlord Emzar Kvitsiani.

The Kodori Valley ( also known as the Kodori Gorge, ; ; ) is a river valley in Abkhazia, Georgia's breakaway autonomous republic.

It is fed by the Tallulah River and the Chattooga River, which each form an arm of Lake Tugalo, on the edge of Georgia's Tallulah Gorge State Park.

After the flood, Georgia's Governor George Busbee called for an immediate investigation, which was carried out by a Federal Investigative Board of the United States Geological Survey.

* Oral History Interview with Governor Lester Maddox, March 7, 1986, Georgia's Political Heritage Program.

* Oral History Interview with Governor Lester Maddox, April 17, 1986, Georgia's Political Heritage Program.

* University of West Georgia's Humanistic Psychology Program

* University of West Georgia's Transpersonal Psychology Program

Georgia's Political Heritage Program, ( University of West Georgia.

On March 1, 2010, it was announced that University of Georgia President Micahel F. Adams had proposed to the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents that the Georgia 4-H Program be completely eliminated in the wake of $ 300 million in budget cuts made by the University System.

He was also elected a member of the State Coordination Commission of Georgia's participation in NATO Partnership for Peace Program ( PFP ).

July 11, 1995: President Clinton models his America's Hope program, a tax credit for the cost of two year of education beyond high school, after the success of Georgia's HOPE Program.

As Insurance Commissioner, John Oxendine brought reforms to the office, expanding the office hours and creating Georgia's first Telemedicine Program.