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Georgian and succeeded
If Regency era is being used to describe the transition between Georgian and Victorian eras, the focus is on the pre-Victorian period from 1811, when the formal Regency began, through 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV.
From 1747 to 1831 Iraq was ruled, with short intermissions, by Mamluk officers of Georgian origin who succeeded in asserting autonomy from the Sublime Porte, suppressed tribal revolts, curbed the power of the Janissaries, restored order, and introduced a program of modernization of the economy and the military.
Once Russia took control of most of principal Georgian lands in the 1800s, it again attempted to evict the Turkish garrison from Poti and succeeded in doing so with the help of Georgian irregulars in 1809, but was coerced to return the fortress to the Ottomans in the Treaty of Bucharest ( 1812 ).
Popularly considered to be the greatest and most successful Georgian ruler in history, he succeeded in driving the Seljuk Turks out of the country, winning the major Battle of Didgori in 1121.
He had three children, the son Demetrius, who succeeded him and continued his father's victorious reign ; and two daughters, Tamar, who was married to the Shirwan Shah Akhsitan ( Aghsartan in Georgian ), and Kata ( Katai ), married to Isaakios Comnenus, the son of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus.
Within this naming and classification scheme, it follows Georgian architecture and later Regency architecture, and was succeeded by Edwardian architecture.
Mozdok remained the northern terminal of the Georgian Military Road leading to Tbilisi until being succeeded by Vladikavkaz, founded in 1784 midway between Mozdok and the Daryal Pass.
In the 3rd century BC, Kartli and its original capital Mtskheta ( succeeded by Tbilisi in the 5th century ) formed a nucleus around which the ancient Georgian kingdom known to the Greco-Roman world as Iberia evolved.
George ’ s childhood coincided with the civil war between his father, Bagrat IV ( r. 1027 – 1072 ), and the rebellious Georgian feudal lord Liparit, who succeeded in temporary driving Bagrat into the Byzantine Empire, crowned George as king at the Ruisi Cathedral between 1050 and 1053, under the regency of Bagrat's sister Gurandukht.
Nevertheless, David VI Narin succeeded in retaining his independence and attempted to restore Georgian influence in the Empire of Trebizond.
Son of the Georgian king David VI Narin by his first wife Tamar, Konstantini succeeded to throne of Imereti, a large portion of Georgia, upon his father's death in 1293.
Patiashvili, a nondescript party loyalist, succeeded Eduard Shevardnadze as the First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party in 1985.

Georgian and English
As in English, the verb " to be " ( qopna ) is irregular in Georgian ( a Kartvelian language ); different verb roots are employed in different tenses.
* Georgian poets, a group of early 20th century English poets
Georgian Architecture was widely disseminated in the English colonies of the time.
In Montreal, English born architect John Ostell worked on a significant number of remarquable constructions in the Georgian style such as the Old Montreal Custom House and the Grand séminaire de Montréal.
In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.
Nominative cases are found in Slovak, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Georgian, German, Latin, Greek, Icelandic, Old English, Old French, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Russian, and Pashto, among other languages.
It has an English audio track and subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Chinese and Thai.
The Georgian era saw a German-born monarch and German-born composer define the English oratorio.
The English Georgian poets such as A. E. Housman, Walter de la Mare and Edmund Blunden used the lyric form.
Much of it is actually the remains of a building remodeled in English Georgian Revival style in 1924 for Harris Hammon, who purchased the estate at Point Breeze as built in 1850 by Henry Becket, a British consul in Philadelphia.
Augustus was regarded by many of the early 18th-century English aristocracy as the greatest of all the Roman Emperors ( the early Georgian era was known as the Augustan Age ).
Founded in the 1920s by Mary Emery, Mariemont exhibits English architecture from Norman to classic Georgian style.
George and Dragon pub, designated by English Heritage Grade II listed building was initially built as a simple three-bay Georgian inn.
Sir Francis Leg ( g ) att Chantrey ( 7 April 1781 – 25 November 1841 ) was an English sculptor of the Georgian era.
In Georgia, these include Georgian and Russian ; in Belgium, Dutch ; in the United States and Canada English ; and in Israel, Hebrew.
Georgian Poetry was the title of a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom.
The town became known as ' The English Spa ' in the Georgian Era, after its waters were first discovered in the 16th century.
For English poetry, the Georgian poetry series was trend-setting ; it showed the potential success of publishing an identifiable group of younger poets marked out as a ' generation '.
The Upper Village is dominated by Tudor and Georgian styles, but the architectural styles range from French Colonial with terra cotta tiles to English country manors with sweeping lawns.
It was quite common in the Georgian period for existing houses in English towns to be given a fashionable new façade.
Flanked today by two wings in a loose Georgian style — each topped by an Italianate pavilion tower, this Tudor centrepiece of the facade appears not in the least incongruous, merely displaying the accepted appearance of a great English country house, which has evolved over the centuries.
Liturgical languages used in the Eastern Orthodox Church include ( but are not limited to ): Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Romanian, Georgian, Arabic, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Moldovan, Serbian, English, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, Albanian, Finnish, Swedish, Chinese, Estonian, Korean, Japanese, many African dialects, and many other world languages.
* English Towns: Bradford-on-Avon-A 35 minute BBC TV programme made in 1981 examining Bradford-on-Avon's Georgian buildings and architecture

Georgian and Baroque
Unlike the Baroque style that it replaced, which was generated almost solely in the context of palaces and churches, Georgian had wide currency in the upper and middle classes.
From the 1860s until the twenties, and according to the decorative tastes prevailing in each moment, cuckoo clock cases were manufactured following different styles then in vogue such as ; Biedermier ( some models also included a painting of a person or animal with moving eyes ), Neoclassical or Georgian ( certain pieces also displayed a painting ), Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Art Nouveau, etc., becoming a suitable complementary piece for the bourgeois living room.
Scholars analyzing the colonial gardens have noticed that gardens were designed in a neat and orderly fashion, displaying symmetry and inspired by Baroque and Renaissance styles ( this style is often described as indicative of a " Georgian Worldview " that became popular during the 17th and 18th centuries ).
There is an anti-Rococo strain that can be detected in some European architecture of the earlier 18th century, most vividly represented in the Palladian architecture of Georgian Britain and Ireland, but also recognizable in a classicizing vein of Late Baroque architecture in Paris ( Perrault's east range of the Louvre ), in Berlin, and even in Rome, in Alessandro Galilei's facade for S. Giovanni in Laterano.

Georgian and Sir
* Sir John Summerson, Georgian London, ( 1945 ).
* Hopetoun House-Two miles to the west, a splendid Georgian stately home designed by the Scottish architects Sir William Bruce and William Adam and situated in 150 acres ( 607, 000 m² ) of parkland.
It was established by eminent surgeon Sir Jonathan Hutchinson in 1888 to provide educational opportunities to local people, and moved to its present location in 1926 – a house with a Georgian façade, but partly dating back to the 16th century.
The paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds and the young J. M. W. Turner and John Constable illustrated the changing world of the Georgian period-as did the work of designers like Capability Brown, the landscape designer.
In 1824, Sir John erected the colony's finest Georgian mansion, Regentville House, near Penrith, on a ridge overlooking the Nepean River.
The Georgian house, designed by Sir William Chambers, the architect of Somerset House, replaced the half-timbered house where Clive was born.
Among historical landmarks in the town are a free-standing 17th-century clock tower, a grand town hall originally designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, Collingwood House the Georgian home of Admiral Lord Collingwood, and a 13th-century chapel called The Chantry which is now the tourist information centre and houses such cultural institutions as the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum.
Adlington Hall, built around 1770 by Sir Richard Clayton, was a Georgian mansion of brick and stone, on high ground, replacing an ancient timber and plaster house on the same site.
The Girl's Boarding House is Main House, a Georgian mansion built in 1790 by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
* A fictionalized Sir John Fielding is the protagonist of eleven historical detective novels ( set in Britain's Georgian period ), written by the American writer Bruce Cook, under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander.
During the 1820s, the Nepean district's most famous early settler, the landowner and physician Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ), erected a magnificent Georgian house on the model estate which he had established on a rise overlooking the river, not far from the present-day City of Penrith.
The spa is largely sited in a new ' Glass Cube ' building by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, near the site of the ancient Royal Bath, which has been interlinked with historic Georgian spa buildings such as the nearby Hot and Cross Baths.
Henry Loftus, Earl of Ely was responsible for much of the conversion of the medieval fortress into a Georgian mansion and employed renowned architects Sir William Chambers and James ' Athenian ' Stuart to carry out these works.
An adjoining Georgian house was built onto the tower by Sir Richard Wiltshire ; in 1527 Cardinal Wolsey stayed at his house while passing through the district.
Lambourn is mentioned in the poetry of Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton, the Georgian poet John Freeman wrote " Lambourn Town " and Sir John Betjeman " Upper Lambourne ".
Farley Hill is a ruin of a Georgian mansion which was built by Sir Graham Briggs.
The Georgian house replaced the earlier one occupied by Sir Francis Walsingham, " Elizabeth's Spymaster ".
The interior houses the Benton Fletcher collection of early keyboard instruments, one of which is often played to visitors during opening hours, and collections of paintings ( including the collection of Peter Barkworth, and loans of Sir William Nicholson paintings ), porcelain, 17th-century needlework pictures and Georgian furniture.
in 1786, it was sold to Sir Drummond Smith, a London banker, who refurbished the interior in Georgian style and remodelled the park in the fashion made popular by " Capability " Brown.
He is remembered through the Creevey Papers, published in 1903 under the editorship of Sir Herbert Maxwell, which, consisting partly of Creevey's own journals and partly of correspondence, give a lively and valuable picture of the political and social life of the late Georgian era, and are characterized by an almost Pepysian outspokenness.
The Estorick Collection moved to its current premises in Northumberland Lodge, previously the home and office of Sir Basil Spence, the British architect, a converted Grade II-listed Georgian house, in 1998.
Holy Trinity, Church Road, Wavertree, England, dates from 1794 described by the late Sir John Betjeman as " Liverpool's best Georgian church ".

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