Thus many Orthodox Churches adopt a national title ( e. g. Albanian Orthodox, Bulgarian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Georgian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Macedonian Orthodox, Montenegrin Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox etc.

The continued spread of Christianity, and the foundation of national churches, led to the translation of the Bible — often beginning with books from the New Testament — into a variety of other languages at a relatively early date: Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Persian, Soghdian, and eventually Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Nubian.

Furthermore, the Georgian literati, reacting to the Russian rule in Georgia and the suppression of national institutions, contrasted Tamar's era to their contemporary situation, lamenting the irretrievably lost past in their writings.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, under the Orthodox Church of Constantinople was vigorous in its missionary outreach under the Roman Empire and continuing Byzantine Empire, and its missionary outreach had lasting effect, either founding, influencing or establishing formal relations with some 16 Orthodox national churches including the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( both said to have been founded by the missionary Apostle Andrew ), the Bulgarian Orthodox Church ( said to have been founded by the missionary Apostle Paul ).

Another key issue was papal primacy, which involved the universal and supreme jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome over the whole Church, including the national Churches of the East ( Serbian, Greek, Bulgrarian, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, etc.

Although many residents are not particularly observant, the link between Georgian Orthodoxy and Georgian ethnic and national identity is strong.

The Georgian national epic, " The Knight in the Panther's Skin " ( Georgian: ვეფხისტყაოსანი, Vepkhistqaosani ), by Shota Rustaveli, dates from the 12th century.

The locals gave to the delegation a warm welcome, which included waving of the newly adopted Georgian national flag with its five crosses.

There are a number on national minority associations: 6 Polish, 6 Lithuanian, 4 Jewish, 1 Ukrainian, 1 Russian, 1 Tatar, 1 Georgian, 1 Chuvash.

* Georgian Public Broadcaster, the national public broadcaster of the nation of Georgia

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.

This has provided a strong sense of national identity that has helped to preserve Georgian distinctiveness despite repeated periods of foreign occupation.

Georgian theatre has a long history ; its oldest national form was the " Sakhioba " ( extant from the 3rd century BC to the 17th century AD ).

Khinkali, Georgian national dish

The standard is the adapted national flag of Georgia, charged in the center with the Georgian coat of arms.

A cultural national awakening was further strengthened by the restoration of the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church ( 12 March 1917 ) and establishment of a national university in Tbilisi ( 1918 ).

Notably, the laws on citizenship, local elections, the country's defence, official language, agriculture, legal system, political and administrative arrangements for ethnic minorities ( including an act about the People's Council of Abkhazia ), a national system of public education, and some other laws and regulations on fiscal / monetary policy, the Georgian railways, trade and domestic production, etc.

He is author of " The Knight in the Panther's Skin " ( ვეფხისტყაოსანი, Vepkhistkaosani ), the Georgian national epic poem.

Right after Georgia became independent and declared itself a national democratic state, one of the first achievements of Georgian people in the beginning of the 20th century was the foundation of Georgian National University in Tbilisi.

Afterwards, through the Bolshevik and Communist period, in spite of the forced ideology and fierce censorship, Tbilisi State University managed to maintain national ardour, devotion to public ideals, raised the best representatives of Georgian intelligentsia, many famous scientific schools in mathematics, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, historiography were also established on the University basis.

Relations between Georgian nationalists and the country's national minorities, especially the Abkhaz and Ossetians, were difficult at best even during Soviet rule and grew more tense during the rise to power of the nationalist dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

During the 2003 Rugby World Cup, the Georgian rugby team arrived in Perth with a crowd of Perth residents welcoming them with colourful support, and a similar occurrence was noted in Townsville, Queensland where the Japanese rugby team was preferred to that of the French.

At the beginning of 2008 flights from Kiev to the Georgian capital Tbilisi and the Kazakh metropolis of Almaty were launched by Aerosvit, E-ticketing was introduced on all Aerosvit scheduled flights, and Aerosvit Airlines again became the official air carrier of the Ukrainian National Olympic team for the XXIX Olympic Games to be held in Beijing.

The fresco was described by the Georgian pilgrim Timote Gabashvili in 1757 / 58, and rediscovered by a team of Georgian scholars in 1960.

In 1936, Towns was named to the American Olympic team, becoming the first Georgian to achieve this.

She was a key member of the USSR team that dominated the women's Olympiads of the 1980s and, when Georgia achieved independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, she played board 1 for the new Georgian national team that won four gold medals, in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2008.

In his youth, Bagapsh was a member of the Georgian basketball team.

In July 2006 Pahars signed with Anorthosis Famagusta, a Cypriot team managed by former Georgian International Temuri Ketsbaia.

FC WIT Georgia is a Georgian football team, playing in the capital, Tbilisi.

FC Tbilisi is a Georgian football team, which were playing in the capital, Tbilisi.

FC Dinamo Tbilisi () is a Georgian football team, based in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

He was also a regular in the Georgian national team, and was the nation's all-time leading scorer.

He was also a regular in the Georgian national team, and was the nation's all-time leading scorer.

He is currently a head coach of Georgian national judo team.

The Georgia national football team is the national association football team of Georgia and is controlled by the Georgian Football Federation.

The history of Georgia national football team begins in 1990, when the best Georgian footballers played their first match against Lithuania, the first country to accept an invitation.

The Georgian team qualified in the next Euro 2008 by defeating Scotland on goals by Levan Mchedlidze and David Siradze.

Georgian footballers could not win any qualifying match and ended running at the bottom even though the team was trained by eminent Argentinian coach Hector Cuper.

On November 6, 2009 Temuri Ketsbaia was appointed as the coach of Georgian national football team.

In 1991, a team of Georgian scholars was joined by the German archaeologists from Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, and later the U. S., French and Spanish researchers.

It organizes the football league, the Georgian Premier League, and the Georgia national football team.