Among them, calligraphy, polyphonic church singing, cloisonné enamel icons, such as the Khakhuli triptych, and the " Georgian cross-dome style " of architecture, which characterizes most medieval Georgian churches.

William R. Stillwell, an admirable Georgian whose delightful correspondence is preserved in the Georgia Department of Archives and History, liked to tease his wife in his letters.

We've got rid of the steam yachts and Georgian houses, and the bloated, too-expensive automobile is next.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

The largest true alphabet where each letter is graphically independent is probably Georgian, with 41 letters.

The Georgian railway, which runs through the town of Gori in central Georgia, is the main transport link between Armenia and the aforementioned Georgian seaports.

Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.

* 1989 – The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

* Georgian: Linking Basque to Kartvelian languages is now widely discredited.

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.

The Trent River is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway, a canal connecting Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and then Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.

As in English, the verb " to be " ( qopna ) is irregular in Georgian ( a Kartvelian language ); different verb roots are employed in different tenses.

Henrietta Street, developed in the 1720s, is the earliest Georgian Street in Dublin.

It is the same source for the names Persian ( زمر ّ د zomorrod ), Turkish ( zümrüt ), Sanskrit ( मरकत ; marakata ), Kannada ( ಪಚ ್ ಚ ೆ ; Pacche ), Telugu ( Paccha ), Georgian ( ზურმუხტი ; zurmukhti ), Russian ( изумруд ; izumrud ) and Armenian zmruxt.

Following the Russian Church in rank is Georgian, followed by Serbian, Romanian, and then Bulgarian Church.

The Politics of Georgia is based on a presidential representative democratic republic ( semi-presidential system ), with a multi-party system, and the President as the head of state and the Prime Minister as the head of the Georgian Government.

The Georgian state is highly centralized, except for the autonomous regions of Abkhazia, Adjara and South Ossetia.

One Georgian border station is Akhalkalaki.

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840.

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.

Georgian-style Governors Hall building at St. Francis Xavier University, completed in 2006The revived Georgian style that emerged in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century is usually referred to as Neo-Georgian ; the work of Edwin Lutyens includes many examples.

In both the United States and Britain, the Georgian style is still employed by architects like Quinlan Terry Julian Bicknell and Fairfax and Sammons for private residences.

The Georgian romanticists followed a medieval tradition in Tamar's portrayal as a gentle, saintly woman who ruled a country permanently at war.

This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets, who were by and large content to work within that tradition.

Georgian has a rich literary tradition.

In his 9th century work Expositio in Matthaeum Evangelistam, the Benedictine monk Christian of Stavelot referred to them as descendants of Gog and Magog, and says they are " Circumcised and observing all laws of Judaism "; the 14th century Sunni scholar Ibn Kathir also identified Gog and Magog with the Khazars, as did a Georgian tradition, which called them " wild men with hideous faces and the manners of wild beasts, eaters of blood ".

The culture of Georgia has evolved over the country's long history, providing it with a unique national culture and a strong literary tradition based on the Georgian language and alphabet.

Both a folk tradition and the 17th century royal poet Archil identify Rustaveli as a native of the southern Georgian region of Meskheti, where his home village Rustavi was located ( not to be confused with the modern-day city of Rustavi near Tbilisi ).

It is widely accepted, that polyphony in Georgian church-singing came from the folk tradition.

According to Georgian Orthodox Church tradition, the first preacher of the Gospel in Colchis and Iberia ( modern-day Western and Eastern Georgia ) was the apostle Andrew, the First-called.

Pharnavaz I (, also spelled P ' arnaoz, P ' arnavaz, P ' arnawaz, or Farnavaz ) was the first king of Kartli, an ancient Georgian kingdom known as Iberia to the Classical sources, who is credited by the medieval Georgian written tradition with founding the kingship of Kartli and the Parnavaziani dynasty.

Several modern scholars have been tempted to make identification between the Parnavaz of the medieval Georgian tradition and the Pharasmanes of the Greco-Roman historian Arrian, a 2nd century AD author of Anabasis Alexandri.

Later, the nobility and clergy of Lazica switched from the Hellenic ecclesiastic tradition to the Georgian ; and Georgian became the language of culture and education.

Georgian historical tradition attributes the invention of the Georgian alphabets to the semi-mythical Parnavaz I of Iberia in the 3rd century BC.

The Georgian language, with its own alphabet and extensive written tradition going back to the 5th century, is the official language of Georgia as well as the language of literacy and education of all Georgians living in the country.

In Indo-European languages such as Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian and Macedonian, as well as languages influenced by the Indo-European tradition, such as Georgian, the term is usually used for forms that express perfective aspect and often refer to past events.

However, Anatoly Michailovich Khazanov has argued that " it is quite possible that the adherents of this view oversimplified the ethnic history of the group, particularly if one compares it with another Muslim Georgian group, the Adzhar, who in spite of their conversion to Islam have retained, not only the Georgian language, but to some extent also the Georgian tradition culture and self-identification.

Another medieval Georgian account, Conversion of Kartli, is at odds with the tradition of Life of the Kings and identifies Mirian as the son of Lev, who is unattested elsewhere.

The Georgian tradition than relates a story of the construction of a cathedral in Mtskheta at Mirian's behest and the king's pilgrimage to Jerusalem shortly before his death.

Edward Marsh, the artistic and literary patron, edited the five volumes of Georgian Poetry which were published by Harold Monro.

By 1949 he became a Professor of the Tbilisi Conservatory and the conductor and the artistic director of the Georgian State chorus.

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.