Tamar presided over the " Golden age " of the medieval Georgian monarchy.

Eastern Georgian Bay is part of the southern edge of the Canadian Shield, granite bedrock exposed by the glaciers at the end of the last ice age, about 11, 000 years ago.

Georgian society and its preoccupations were well portrayed in the novels of writers such as Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, characterised by the architecture of Robert Adam, John Nash and James Wyatt and the emergence of the Gothic Revival style, which hearkened back to a supposed golden age of building design.

He joined the Georgian Communist Party ( GCP ) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1948 at the age of twenty.

The golden age of Georgian monasticism lasted from the 9th to the 11th century.

Some of his findings have proved extremely contentious and most western scholars dispute them, claiming his work is biased from an ethno-nationalistic perspective ; this is especially in regard to his discussion of the ethnogenesis of the Georgians and Abkhaz, and the age of the Georgian alphabet.

Kemble waited until 1863, after the American Civil War had started and her daughters had come of age, to publish her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839.

Maia Chiburdanidze was born in Kutaisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR and started playing chess around the age of eight.

The province ’ s Orthodox culture flourished particularly during the Georgian “ golden age ” under Queen Tamar ( r. 1184-1213 ), who was respected almost as goddess by the Svanetians.

There were two Georgian survivors still alive in 2010: Grisha Baindurashvili, who is now 88 years old and lives in Kaspi, a village 40 km west of Tbilisi, and Eugeny Artemidze, who was one of the main organizers of the rebellion ; he died at age 90 on June 22, 2010, on the same day that he went to war 69 years before.

His reign, and that of Tamar, are seen as the ' golden age ' of Georgian history, the era of empire, diplomatic success, military triumphs, great learning, cultural, spiritual, and artistic flowering.

These still contain many houses of considerable age, mostly Georgian, but with many also from the 16th and 17th centuries.

She received her first piano lessons at the age of 8 from her grandmother, Anastasia Virsaladze, a well-known music teacher and pianist in the Georgian SSR.

The Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Judaism and the Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Coptic, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches, although there is substantial overlap.

Culturally there was a transition away from the rationalism of the Georgian period and toward romanticism and mysticism with regard to religion, social values, and the arts.

Christian orthodoxies settled upon this mountain in the third century, Georgians from the Caucasus moved to the Sinai Peninsula in the fifth century, and a Georgian colony was formed there in the ninth century.

Georgian monks living there were deeply connected with their motherland.

Some of the Georgian manuscripts of Sinai remain there, but others are kept in Tbilisi, St. Petersburg, Prague, New York, Paris and in private collections.

Henry Newbolt, writing in the early 1930s, estimated that there were at least 1000 active British poets ; the vast majority of these would be recognisably ' Georgian ', making the pool of names close to unfathomable.

Around the town there are various buildings from the Tudor, Georgian, Regency and Victorian eras.

Subsequently they moved from there to their historic territory on Georgian Bay where they were encountered by Champlain in 1615.

Dodge reviewed George Washington's writings about the estate, visited other Colonial-era gardens, and traveled to England to see gardens there dating from the Georgian period.

In Bath, there is a particular contrast between the concrete campus and the Georgian style architecture of the World Heritage City of Bath.

In this area there are 10 Georgian towns and villages around Fereydunshahr.

There were other compact settlements in Khorasan at Abbas Abad ( half-way between Shahrood and Sabzevar where there remained only one old woman who remembered Georgian in 1934 ), Mazandaran at Behshahr and Farah Abad, Gilan, Isfahan Province at Najafabad, Badrud, Rahmatabad, Yazdanshahr and Amir Abad.

As a result, only one Georgian townhouse remains on the street today, though there are still some other Georgian buildings extant on the corner with Henry Street, as well as some masked behind Victorian facades on the lower end of the street.

Its location on Georgian Bay gave it access to the upper Great Lakes, and major rail lines moved cargo south from there.

" " There are Georgian inscriptions everywhere dating back to the sixth century ," he said " There are no traces of another culture there.

The Chief Rabbi of Georgia from Chabad Lubavitsch is Rabbi Avraham Michaelshvili, who has been there since the early 19 ' 90's hosting the Georgian community and many guests with fervor and devotion.

In 2002, Georgian Orthodox Christianity was established as the state religion, and since then there has been concern for all religious minorities in the country.

Since there is more than one Georgia, there are multiple lists of Georgian cities.

From there the trail follows the Severn River into Georgian Bay.

In 1789 his daughter sold the house to Richard Davenport, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, who lived there for 10 years, during which, Court Garden was described in Boydells ‘ History of the River Thames ’, published in 1793, as " a fine Georgian house standing on a gentle eminence, a lawn of some extent descending gradually from it to the river ".

During the 11th-13th century ( i. e. before Mongol conquest ), there was a mission of Georgian Orthodox missionaries to the Nakh peoples.

Because of the peculiarity of the scale system based on perfect fifths, there is often an augmented octave in Georgian songs and church-songs.

In 2010, the volume of bilateral trade with Turkey was about $ 200 million, with trade taking place without open borders, across Georgian territory.

Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

In 1785, Russia and the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti ( which was devastated by Turkish and Persian invasions ) signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Kartl-Kakheti received protection from Russia.

Even though he was a Georgian, and he opposed Georgian nationalism, he talked like a Slavophile, which was an advantage.

Beria, an ethnic Georgian, was the Presidium member for internal security affairs, and he was a strong supporter for minority rights and even supported reuniting East and West Germany to establish a strong, and neutral Germany between the capitalist and socialist nations.

It was a major commercial success and provided for two phases of expansion during the Georgian and Victorian eras.

The first of the Georgian docks was the West India ( opened 1802 ), followed by the London ( 1805 ), the East India ( also 1805 ), the Surrey ( 1807 ), St Katharine ( 1828 ) and the West India South ( 1829 ).

* Repentance a. k. a. The Confession ( 1984 ), a Georgian film about a fictional dictator which was banned until 1987.

Debate on the possible installation of a constitutional monarchy in Georgia was revitalized following the 7 October 2007 sermon of Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, the popular head of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

The patriarch said, during his Sunday service at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, that restoration of the Bragrationi royal family was a " desirable dream of the Georgian people ".

John Nash was one of the most prolific architects of the late Georgian era known as The Regency style, he was responsible for designing large areas of London.

Greek Revival was added to the design repertory the main exponents being William Wilkins and Robert Smirke, their work dominates late Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance ; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.

" Regular " was a term of approval, implying symmetry and adherence to classical rules: the lack of symmetry, where Georgian additions were added to earlier structures, was deeply felt as a flaw.

Regularity of housefronts along a street was a desirable feature of Georgian town planning.

Georgian Architecture was widely disseminated in the English colonies of the time.

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.

The establishment of Georgian architecture, and the Georgian styles of design more generally, were to a large degree aided by the fact that, unlike earlier styles which were primarily disseminated among craftsmen through the direct experience of the apprenticeship system, Georgian was also spread through the new medium of inexpensive suites of engravings.