During the same period the Georgian states of Colchis and Tabal arose around the Black Sea and central Anatolia respectively.

However, the rail link between Abkhazia and Georgia proper has been closed for a number of years, forcing Armenia to receive rail cars laden with cargo only through the relatively expensive rail-ferry services operating between Georgian and other Black Sea ports.

A contemporary Georgian historian extols Tamar as the master of the lands " from the Sea of Pontus is, the Black Sea to the Sea of Gurgan Caspian Sea, from Speri to Derbend, and all the Hither and the Thither Caucasus up to Khazaria and Scythia.

In freight traffic, the exportation of oil from the oil wells from Baku at the Caspian Sea to the Georgian port of Batumi at the Black Sea, forms an important share of the rail transport in Azerbaijan.

The term Colchians is used as the collective term for early Georgian tribes which populated the eastern coast of the Black Sea.

The kingdom of Colchis, which existed from the sixth to the first centuries BC is regarded as the first early Georgian state and the term Colchians was used as the collective term for early Georgian tribes which populated the eastern coast of the Black Sea.

The oldest inhabited house in the village, at one time the Black Cat Inn, is in Main Street opposite the late Georgian Albert Hotel.

Georgian is the most pervasive of the Kartvelian languages, a family that also includes Svan and Megrelian ( chiefly spoken in Northwest Georgia ) and Laz ( chiefly spoken along the Black Sea coast of Turkey, from Melyat, Rize to the Georgian frontier ).

Georgian slaveholders wanted the " maroons " and fugitive slaves living among the Seminoles, known today as Black Seminoles, returned to slavery.

After the German capture of Sevastopol and Novorossiysk in 1942, several destroyers were transferred to be based at Poti which, together with another Georgian port city of Batumi functioned as a secondary harbor in the Black Sea Campaigns ( 1941-44 ).

* @ bbc-The Georgian foreign ministry said the Black Sea port of Poti, which is the site of a major oil shipment facility, had been " devastated " by a Russian aerial bombardment.

The Western Georgian group of musical dialects consists of the central region of western Georgia, Imereti ; three mountainous regions, Svaneti, Racha and Lechkhumi ; and three Black Sea coastal regions, Samegrelo, Guria, and Achara.

Depending on their region and their time, different sources each used their own vision to denote different sections of the vast Cuman territory: in Byzantine, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Persian and Muslim sources, Cumania meant the Pontic steppe, that is the steppelands to the north of the Black Sea and on its eastern side as far as the Caspian Sea, where the lowlands between the Dnieper, the Volga, the Ural and the Irtysh rivers were favorable to the nomadic lifestyle of the Cumans.

The newly independent nation of Georgia, which also hosted several bases of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet when it was the Georgian SSR, also claimed a share of the Fleet, including 32 naval vessels formerly stationed at Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti.

Since the 2008 South Ossetia war Russian military officials refused to let the Black Sea Fleet take part in any joint naval exercises involving Georgian warships.

The Russians sent a small force under General Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben who helped Solomon to recover Kutaisi in August 1770, but the general's rudeness and condescension alienated the Georgians ; Totleben was quickly recalled from Georgia, but his successor failed to take the Ottoman-held Georgian port of Poti on the Black Sea.

The Black River flows via the Severn River to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.

Lazistan ( Ottoman: لازستان, Lazona – ლაზონა in Laz, ლაზეთი – lazeti or ჭანეთი – Chaneti ( č ’ aneti ) in Georgian ) was the Ottoman administrative name for the sanjak ( under Trebizond Vilayet ) comprising the Laz or Lazuri-speaking population on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea.

Mazniashvili did not follow the country ’ s leaders in exile, but mobilized the remnants of the Georgian armed forces to recover the Black Sea city of Batumi from the Turkish occupation, March 1921.

He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, outpolling Liberal Ken Black and incumbent New Democrat Dan Waters by about 10, 000 votes in the riding of Muskoka – Georgian Bay.

He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1987 provincial election, but finished third in the central Ontario riding of Muskoka — Georgian Bay against Liberal Ken Black.

The NSA notices that a Georgian military cell that has been stationed on an oil rig in the Caspian Sea has been exchanging data with the Georgian Presidential Palace, suggesting it to be of some importance ; and thus Fisher is sent to retrieve the data.

The gorge, alternatively known as the Iberian Gates or the Caucasian Gates, is mentioned in the Georgian annals under the names of Ralani, Dargani, Darialani ; Strabo calls it Porta Caucasica and Porta Cumana ; Ptolemy, Fortes Sarmatica ; it was sometimes known as Porta Caucasica and Portae Caspiae ( a name bestowed also on the " gate " or pass beside the Caspian Sea at Derbent ); and the Tatars call it Darioly.

Hostile to the Soviet rule, he was, nevertheless, one of the fewest leading Georgian writers to have survived Stalin-era repressions, including his exile to a White Sea island and several arrests.

* 2009 -- Sea Island Company made history by receiving four Five-Star awards from the Mobil Travel Guide, for The Cloister, The Lodge at Sea Island, the Georgian Room at The Cloister, and The Cloister Spa.

Georgian Bay Sea Kayaking-14 days

He married firstly at the Dolmabahçe Palace in Constantinople in 1856 to Georgian HH Dürrünev Kadın Efendi ( Batumi, 15 March 1835 – Constantinople, Üsküdar, Çamlıca Palace, 3 December 1892 ), and had three children.

* Georgian International Airlines, based in Batumi, Georgia

His second marriage was to Georgian HH Seniye Inshira Kadın Efendi ( Batumi, 10 July 1887-Cairo, 10 June 1930 ) at the Çengelköy Palace, Çengelköy, Üsküdar, Istanbul, on 8 July 1905.

He married fourthly at Istanbul, Ortaköy, Ortaköy Palace, on 8 June 1874 to Georgian HH Meyliservet Haseki Kadın Efendi ( Batumi, 21 October 1854 – Constantinople, Ortaköy, Ortaköy Palace, 9 December 1903 ), and had one child, HIH Princess Fehime Sultan.

During this period the province was led by Lavrentiy Beria, first secretary of the Georgian Central Committee of the Georgian Communist Party The Soviet Government forced Georgia to cede several areas to Turkey ( the province of Tao-Klarjeti and part of Batumi province ), Azerbaijan ( the province of Hereti / Saingilo ), Armenia ( the Lore region ) and Russia ( northeastern corner of Khevi, eastern Georgia ).

However, their communist views were not appreciated by the conservative officials in Bolu, and the two decided to go to Batumi in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic to experience in first person the results of the Russian Revolution of 1917, arriving there on September 30, 1921.

In 2011, Georgian Airways began operating flights from Batumi to Tel Aviv, Baku, Moscow, Kharkov, Odessa and Donetsk.

Yurchikhin was born in Batumi, Georgian SSR ( now Adjara the autonomous republic of Georgia ) on 3 January 1959 to Pontic Greek parents Nikolai Fyodorovich Yurchikhin and Mikrula Sofoklevna Yurchikhina ( both now reside in Sindos, Greece ).

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

The news service of Rustavi 2 has bureaus and regional reporters in major Georgian cities ( Kutaisi, Batumi, Gori, Poti, Zugdidi ), as well as the permanent correspondents in Moscow and Washington D. C .. By some critiques, the independence of the station had been questioned, with some claiming it is close to the Georgian government.

Aeroflot Flight 6833, en route from Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, to Leningrad, Russian SFSR, with an intermediate stop in Batumi, was the scene of an attempted aircraft hijacking by seven young Georgians on 18-19 November 1983.

In 1915, in the course of the ongoing war against Ottoman Empire, the Russian administration began a process of deportation of “ refractory ” Russian-subject Muslims from the Batumi region to interior Russian provinces, drawing protests from Georgian intellectuals.

During the Soviet invasion of Georgia, Turkish forces occupied Batumi on March 11, 1921 and held the city until they were expelled by the Georgian troops under General Giorgi Mazniashvili on March 18, 1921.

It is thought also that Moscow wanted to avoid giving Georgia complete control of the important Black Sea port of Batumi and to bolster Communist leanings among the ethnic Georgian Muslims living in Turkey.

On May 6, Abashidze's position became untenable when local protesters took control over the central Batumi and Georgian Special Forces entered the region and started to disarm pro-Abashidze groups.

In the wake of Adjaran leader Aslan Abashidze ’ s visit to Moscow, Russian foreign Ministry issued a statement on January 20 backing Abashidze ’ s policy and condemning his opposition as “ extremist forces .” In late January, Georgian officials, including Acting President Nino Burjanadze and President-elected Mikheil Saakashvili met with Abashidze in Batumi.

Abashidze's position became untenable when local protesters took control of the central part of the city of Batumi and Georgian Special Forces entered the region and started to disarm pro-Abashizde militants.

The northern half, with the port city of Batumi, was ceded by Armenia to Georgian SSR of the Soviet Union.

Mukhran Vakhtangadze ( born January 22, 1973 in Batumi ) is a Georgian wrestler who competed in the Men's Freestyle 85 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.