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| | Caspian Crossroads Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring - Summer 1996 |
 | | Such was the case in the end of the 18th century, when, exhausted from nearly three centuries of futile attempts to liberate from Turkish and Iranian invaders, Georgia allied with Russia to protect its sovereignty. |
 | | This process was paralleled by the spread of the Georgian language, which became the state and compulsory language in the beginning of the 3rd century BC, and continued to flourish through the 8th century. |
 | | By the 10th century, cleric Giorgi Merchule issued a redefinition of the geographic area comprising the eastern state of Kartli; according the Merchule, the new Kartli state would include "the very country in which services were performed in Georgian," or, rather, Western Georgia as well. |
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