Edited  by Andrew Andersen

 

BRIEF HISTORY OF GEORGIA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE CONVERTION OF GEORGIA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LIST OF GEORGIAN KINGS

& QUEENS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ca 1118 – 763 BC

Diaokhi (Pre-history)

By Givi Koberidze

 

 

ca 600 BC – 620 AD

Early Georgian History in a Nutshell

By Andrew Andersen

 

The Kingdom of Colchis

 By Givi Koberidze  and George Nikoladze

 

Colchis / Lazica

By Xenophon, Strabo, Procopius and Agathius

 

 

Caucasian Iberia

By Givi Koberidze  and George Nikoladze

 

 

Description of Iberia

By Strabo

 

 

Iberian and Lasic Wars

By Givi Koberidze 

 

 

ca 500 BC – 1125

 

 

 

Concise History of the Georgians

By Juansher Juansheriani 

 

Rise and Fall of Georgian Kings

By David Marshall Lang 

 

 

620 - 1089

Early Medieval Georgia

By Andrew Andersen

 

 

The Kingdom of Egris-Abkhazia

By Givi Koberidze 

 

Life of Egrisi, Abkhazeti or Imereti

By Vakhushti Bagrationi

 

Smbat Davitisdze, Abkhazia & Georgian Unification

By Stephen H. Rapp

 

 

Theme of Iberia & Byzantine-Georgian Wars

By Givi Koberidze 

 

 

Tao-Klarjeti

TBA

 

 

Emirate of Tbilisi

TBA

 

 

1090 - 1221

Medieval Georgia: “The Golden Age”

By Andrew Andersen

 

 

The Georgians and the Crusades

By Theodore E. Dowling

 

1222 - 1500

Late Medieval Georgia

By Andrew Andersen

 

 

Mongol Invasions of Georgia

TBA

 

 

Description of Georgia

By Marco Polo

 

546 BC – 1826 AD

 

History of Georgian-Iranian Relations

By Keith Hitchins

 

1501 - 1801

Georgia in the 16th – 19th Centuries

By David Marshall Lang

 

 

 

The Annexation of Georgia by the Russian Empire, 1783-1801

By Giorgio Catalano    (in Italian)

 

1801 - 1917

Georgia under Russian Imperial Rule

By David Marshall Lang

 

Russian Orthodox Church in Georgia

By Manana Gnolidze-Swanson

 

 

National Committee in Berlin and German Initiative to Encourage Georgian Separatism

By Hew Strachan

 

1918 - 2008

Independent Georgia (1918-1921)

David Marshall Lang

 

 

Soviet-Georgian War and Sovietization of Georgia, February-March, 1921

By Andrew Andersen & George Partskhaladze

 

Georgia under Soviet Rule

David Marshall Lang

 

The Georgian Emigrés

David Marshall Lang

 

 

The Soldiers of Georgia in Polish Service (1923 - 1939)

By Dmitri Shalikashvili

 

 

Georgian Legion: Georgians on the Wrong

Side of World War 2

By Andrew Andersen   (in Russian)

 

 

Leuville-sur-Orge : a Little Georgia 25 Kilometers away Southward from Paris

By Eva Csergo

 

 

Political Turmoil in Georgia and the Ethnic Policies of Zviad Gamsakhurdia

By Ghia Nodia

 

Ethnic Conflicts in Georgia

By Ben Fowkes

 

Ethnic Conflicts in Georgia

By Alexei Zverev

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

 

 

     Allen, W.E.D.: A History of the Georgian People [1932]

 

     Curtis, G.E.: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia: Country Studies. [1995]

 

     Daskhuranci, M.: A History of the Caucasian Albanians. [1961]

 

     Denikin, A.: The Russian Turmoil. [1924]

 

     Iosseliani, P.: The Concise History of Georgian Church. [1883]

 

     Kazemzadeh, F.: The Struggle for Transcaucasia: 1917-1921. [1951]

 

     Lang, D.M.: The Last Days of the Georgian Monarchy, 1658-1832. [1957]

 

           : A Modern History of Georgia. [1962]

 

     Villari, L.:  Fire and Sword in the Caucasus [1906]

                                               

 

 

 

 

 

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