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	History of Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1801-1810, the kingdoms of Kartl-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and Imereti (Western Georgia) were occupied and annexed by the Tsarist Russian Empire at the request of the Georgians who were pressured by the Persian Empire from the south.
		Georgia was one of them, proclaiming the establishment of the independent Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG) on May 26, 1918.
		In 1936, the TFSSR was dissolved and Georgia became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Georgia (2850 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Environmental History of Georgia Mountains
		The environmental history of the Georgia mountains starts with the Mississippians, the first people to live in permanent settlements there.
		The introduction of livestock to the Georgia mountains eventually resulted in the clearing of canebrakes and the extermination of wild pea vines and strawberries from the forest floor.
		After the forced removal of the Cherokees in 1838, much of the Georgia mountains was awarded to white settlers in 40- and 160-acre tracts.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2838 (1075 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tamar of Georgia Tamar (1160-1213), from the House of Bagrationi, was Queen of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1184 to 1213.
		The Pankisi Gorge is a region of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, near the border with the breakaway Russian province of Chechnya.
		Georgia (Georgian: áƒ¡áƒáƒ¥áƒáƒ áƒ—áƒ•áƒ”áƒšáƒ Sakartvelo), known from 1990 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a country to the east of the Black Sea in the southern Caucasus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Georgia (7406 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Environmental History of Georgia: Overview
		From a sociohistorical perspective, environmental history presents a record of human activities and the effects of those activities on the landscape.
		Soil conservation districts were established throughout the state, encouraging farmers to build terraces, plant kudzu and lupine in barren fields, convert fields to pasture, and practice strip cropping and contour tillage.
		Following that course, many state and national wildlife refuges, parks, and forests were established in Georgia in the 1920s and 1930s, in a movement that continued throughout the century.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2198 (1793 words)

	The History of Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a consequence of constant invasions, economic decline and feudal strife, Georgia began to disintegrate, and by the end of the 15th century three independent kingdoms of Kakheti, Kartli, and Imereti, and the principality of Samtskhe emerged on its territory.
		The annexation of Georgia by the Russian Empire put an end to the independent existence of the Georgian Kingdoms and principalities and Georgia lost her age-old statehood.
		Georgia had to pass through the ordeal of industrialization and collectivization, suffering severely during the depressions of the 1930s.
	members.tripod.com /ggdavid/georgia/history.htm (4474 words)

	History of Georgia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The recorded history of (A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Georgia dates back more than 4,000 years and the (Click link for more info and facts about Georgian language) Georgian language is one of the oldest living languages in the world.
		Georgia suffered a lengthy period of decline thereafter, broken up into several kingdoms and principalities and finding itself contested by the (Thick cushion used as a seat) Ottoman and (The language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms) Persian empires.
		Georgia continues to support the coalition forces in (A republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq; modern government is involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Iraq.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_georgia.htm (2852 words)

	History of Georgia
		Russia annexed the western Georgian region of Imereti in 1810 and the remainder of western Georgia between 1829 and 1878.
		Georgia’s presidency was abolished, and former Soviet official Shevardnadze was chosen in March to lead the country as acting chairperson of the State Council (the country’s new legislature).
		Following independence, Georgia’s Ossetian and Abkhazian minorities, continued to seek greater levels of autonomy for their regions but were faced with increasing nationalist sentiment among the Georgian majority.
	www.osgf.ge /all/ika/history_of_georgia.htm (1886 words)

	Georgia History Fun Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Georgia is a part of the southeastern region of the United States nicknamed, “The Sunbelt.”
		Georgia’s National Baseball Hall of Fame member, Ty Cobb, was born in The Narrows in Banks County.
		Perry is known as the Crossroads of Georgia because it is the closest city located near the geographic center of the state.
	www.sos.state.ga.us /tours/html/for_kids_only.html (260 words)

	The US50 - A guide to the state of Georgia - History
		Georgia, the last of the 13 British colonies established on the Atlantic seaboard, was founded by James Edward Oglethorpe with 114 original settlers on February 12, 1733, at the present site of the city of Savannah.
		Georgia did not suffer direct devastation from the war until 1864 when General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced though Northern Georgia, besieged and captured Atlanta, and then pushed on to Savannah on his famous March to the Sea.
		In the final quarter of the 20th century, Georgia, with its capital city Atlanta, is emerging as a leader in the social, political and economic progress of the nation.
	www.theus50.com /georgia/history.shtml (2168 words)

	State of Georgia History
		Georgia was founded in 1733 to give new lives to deserving non-Roman Catholics in the New World.
		The myth that Georgia was a debtors' colony or a type of Botany Bay seems impossible to lay to rest with the truth.
		By 1820 Georgia established fifty counties, mostly from the area that comprised the original ten counties.
	www.mygeorgiagenealogy.com /ga_state/history.htm (534 words)

	History of Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Georgia USSR itself with Azerbaijan and Armenia, by the proposal of Lenin in 1922, was made into a Transcaucasian Federation, which entered USSR, created at the end of the same year.
		Georgia was one of those regions of the USSR, where the repressing engine was particularly active.
		The population of Georgia in 1940 was 3.6 million.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~henkypnk/histgeorgia.html (651 words)

	University of Georgia: History
		History of the University of Georgia by Thomas Walter Reed
		When the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 27, 1785, Georgia became the first state to charter a state-supported university.
		John Milledge, later a governor of the state, purchased and gave to the board of trustees the chosen tract of 633 acres on the banks of the Oconee River in northeast Georgia.
	www.uga.edu /profile/history.html (600 words)

	World History Blog: History of Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is an overview to the history of the Soviet successor state of Georgia.
		Georgia has historically found itself on the margins of great empires, and Georgians have lived together in a unified state for only a small fraction of their existence as a people.
		In the postwar period, Georgia was perceived as one of the wealthiest and most privileged of Soviet republics, and many Russians treated the country’s Black Sea coast as a kind of Soviet Riviera.
	world-history-blog.blogspot.com /2005/03/history-of-georgia.html (529 words)

	Atlanta, Georgia Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Other history museums and attractions include the Atlanta History Center; the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum (a huge painting and diorama in-the-round, with a rotating central audience platform, that depicts the Battle of Atlanta in the Civil War); the Carter Center and Presidential Library; and the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum.
		Metropolitan Atlanta is crisscrossed by thirteen freeways (I-75, I-85, I-20, I-575, Georgia 400, Georgia 141, I-675, I-285, Georgia 316, I-985, The Stone Mountain Freeway, The Lakewood Freeway and the Downtown Connector).
		A detailed history of Atlanta from 1946 to 1996, with much about City Councilman, later Mayor, William B. Hartsfield's work in making Atlanta a major air transport hub, and about the civil rights movement as it affected (and was affected by) Atlanta.
	quiltplace.com /encyclopedia/Atlanta,_Georgia (6095 words)

	Story of Georgia's Capitols and Capital Cities
		Louisville is the present capital of the state of Georgia, and is situated on the north-east bank of the Ogechee [sic] river, 70 miles from its outlet, and 100 miles from Savannah.
		The board justified the use of Indiana limestone on the basis of the impracticality and the expense of using Georgia marble or granite and that competitors possessed superior facilities for the quarrying and dressing of the stone.
		Georgia's state capitol is one of the few capitols in the United States that also houses the state museum.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/capital.htm (11171 words)

	History of Georgia Counties
		After Georgia became a royal colony, its new legislative assembly made the Church of England the official church of Georgia, and divided the colony into eight parishes.
		Until the 1960s, Georgia was basically a rural state, with the majority of people living in the countryside or in small rural communities.
		In 1968, the title was changed to simply "board of commissioners," although a few Georgia counties continue to be governed by a single person known as "sole commissioner." Whether a county is governed by a single commissioner or board is determined by local act for each county by the General Assembly.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/countyhistory.htm (1579 words)

	History (from Georgia) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A republic of Transcaucasia, Georgia borders Russia on the north and northeast, Azerbaijan on the southeast, Armenia and Turkey on the south, and the Black Sea on the west.
		History is a science—a branch of knowledge that uses specific methods and tools to achieve its goals.
		Between 1921 and 1991 Georgia was part of the Soviet Union, and it was the birthplace of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-214120 (891 words)

	Colonial Georgia
		The colony of Georgia was truly the vision of James Edward Oglethorpe.
		Georgia had always been a "melting pot," welcoming the persecuted and prosecuted of Europe including large groups of Puritans, Lutherans, and Quakers (Wrightsboro).
		Southern Georgia and Florida were battlegrounds over the next four years, most notably the siege of St. Augustine (1740) and the Battle of Bloody Marsh (1742).
	ourgeorgiahistory.com /history101/gahistory03.html (812 words)

	Georgia Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Georgia (country), a nation in the Caucasus region of eastern Europe and western Asia:
		formerly Province of Georgia, one of the Thirteen Colonies (1732–1805).
		South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, a territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean
	thelocalcolorgallery.com /encyclopedia/Georgia (411 words)

	georgia.gov - Facts & History
		The Royal Charter for the colony of Georgia was officially certified on June 9, 1732. 114 passengers left Gravesend, England on the Anne, a 200-ton frigate commanded by Captain John Thomas.
		The Georgia settlers left South Carolina in a group of small boats on January 30 and landed at Yamacraw Bluff, 17 miles up the Savannah River. Oglethorpe’s first official act was to kneel with the company to offer thanksgiving and prayer to God.
		The Georgia Legislature gave legal recognition to the celebration in 1909 and recommended that public schools of the state hold special ceremonies each year.
	www.georgia.gov /00/article/0,2086,4802_15177279_15252413,00.html (375 words)

	History of Georgia
		The Republic of Georgia comprises the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic and the Acharan
		Georgia was the result of the socio-political and economic development of the country.
		Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Northern Iran to the Turks.
	iayd.tripod.com /old/history.htm (10615 words)

	Georgia's Pre-revolutionary History-Hernando deSoto to James Olgethorpe
		This encounter resulted in the retreat of the Creek Nation to land south of the Chattahoochee River.
		Georgia did not prosper under Oglethorpe and the Trustees.
		In north Georgia the Cherokee reigned in their "Enchanted Land," which stretched from the Chattahoochee on the south (after the battle of Taliwa, 1755) to the Ohio River and beyond and from the Mississippi in the West to Appalachian Mountains in the East.
	www.ngeorgia.com /history/histpre.html (827 words)

	History of Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The adoption of Christianity and its importance for Georgian history;
		The state and society of medieval Georgia: political administrative system and social structure (2hs);
		The political and cultural orientation of medieval Georgia: Georgia between Muslim empires and Russia and relations with the West;
	www.tsmu.edu /assa/history.htm (181 words)

	Georgia Museum of Natural History
		Join us at Celebration, the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Natural History's annual event in support of the Museum.
		This illustration was drawn from a series of specimens curated in the University of Georgia Herbarium (GA).
		The genus Hemerocallis is native to the countries in the temperate parts of Asia (Japan, Siberia, Korea, China), and Eurasia.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu (203 words)

	The Georgia Economic History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Targeted to students in the state's required 8th grade Georgia Studies course, the program will help teachers encourage students to study their communities' local economic histories.
		The Georgia Trust's Heritage Education Program, for example, already helps teachers learn to work with local preservation and history organizations to create projects to integrate into the existing curricula.
		The Georgia Council kicked off the Georgia Economic History Project in early 2000 with workshops around the state for 8th-grade teachers.
	www.gcee.org /www/projects/history.htm (464 words)

	History of Georgia Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One hundred twelve years ago, 24-year old University of Georgia chemistry professor Dr. Charles Herty made the first introduction of the sport of football to his alma mater.
		Then, through the friendship of Herty and Johns Hopkins classmate Dr. George Petrie, who was a faculty member at Auburn, a game was played on Feb. 20 between the two schools at Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, marking the inaugural game of what became the South’s oldest collegiate rivalry.
		In the years that followed, Georgia at tracted some of the most successful coaches in the history of the game —Warner,Cunningham, Stegeman, Woodruff, Mehre, Butts, and Dooley.
	georgiadogs.collegesports.com /football/history (420 words)

	History of Georgia - ® Welcome2Sakartvelo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mtskheta - History and pictures of ancient capital of Georgia, by Valerian Mamukelashvili
		"Georgia, Soviet Russia and Antanta" - essay by Avtandil Menteshashvili
		Etymology of the word "Georgia" - The essay by Gregory Feradze from the book - "An account of the Georgian monks and monasteries in Palestine as revealed in the writings of non-Georgian pilgrims."
	free.hostdepartment.com /w/w2s/history.html (135 words)

	University of Georgia: History
		History points to a UGA alumnus, Daniel Huntley Redfearn (Class of 1910), as the originator of the legend.
		When Redfearn arrived in Athens from his home state of Florida, he only had with him a trunk, a suitcase, less than $200 in his wallet, and a fierce determination to graduate.
		As he approached the gateway to the campus on Broad Street, he vowed to himself he would not walk under the wrought-iron Arch until he had a diploma in hand.
	deik.linguistics.uga.edu /profile/arch.html (575 words)

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