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Article: Country profile: Georgia.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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GEORGIA may be famous as the land of Stalin's birth, but it boasts a long and fabled history as one of the world's oldest nations. It is also, however, one of the world's most invaded countries - Hittites, Romans, Byzantines, Mongols, Turks, Persians and finally Bolsheviks have all attacked this strategic land along the north coast of the Black Sea, wedged between Russia and Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Absorbed by the Russian Empire at the start of the nineteenth century, Georgia enjoyed a short breath of freedom from 1918 to 1921 but was then subdued by the Red Army and absorbed into the Soviet Union. Following the collapse of the USSR, Georgia declared its ...