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| | Georgia (country) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The name of the country is Gorjestan in Persian, Gürcistan in Turkish, and Грузия in Russian ("Gruziya"). |
 | | The Persian name is probably also derived from Iberia, in the same way as the Armenian name mentioned above. |
 | | gul 'rose, flower', from ward, and gurg 'wolf', from warg.) According to others, the name may be related to the Persian word for wolf (gurg), object of an old cult by the Caucasian peoples, hence Gorjestan - land of wolves. |
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