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8 unusual facts about Georgian language


Bernard Coulie

Bernard Coulie (born 1959) is a Belgian academic specializing in Greek patristic literature primarily of Late Antiquity and its derivatives (hence an expertise in translation techniques) and counterparts in eastern Christian oriental languages of that period (notably Armenian, Syriac and Georgian).

Giorgi Kekelidze

From 2006 to 2008 he worked at the penal Institution of Rustavi as a teacher of the Georgian language and literature.

Givi Alkhazishvili

Alkhazishvili has been a keen translator of foreign poetry into Georgian.

Haim Megrelashvili

He is of Georgian Jewish ancestry and his surname literally means "son of Megrelia" in Georgian.

Nana Meskhidze

Nana Meskhidze (Georgian: ნანა მესხიძე) (b. 13 March 1936, Tbilisi - 31 August 1997, Tbilisi), was a Georgian painter, honored artist of Georgia.

Omar Bliadze

Omar Bliadze (born 31 March 1942) (Georgian: ბლიაძე ომარ), is a Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler.

Shota and Margarita Metreveli

Shota Metreveli (October 25, 1913 – April 5, 1983) (Georgian: შოთა მეტრეველი) and Margarita Metreveli (June 22, 1913 – July 22, 1984) (Georgian: მარგარიტა მეტრეველი) were artists from Georgia.

Terenti Graneli

Terenti Kvirkvelia (Georgian:ტერენტი კვირკველია), well known with his pen-name Terenti Graneli (Georgian:ტერენტი გრანელი)(1897-1934) was a noted Georgian poet.


A Trip to Karabakh

A trip to Karabakh (Gaseirneba Karabaghshi in Georgian) is a 2005 Georgian film directed by Levan Tutberidze and based on the 1992 book by Aka Morchiladze.

Ardeşen

Ardeşen (Laz: არტაშენი/Art'aşeni or არდაშენი/Ardaşeni; Georgian: არტაშენი/Artasheni or არდაშენი/Ardasheni) is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 48 km along the coast road from the city of Rize.

Demographics of Iran

There are small groups using other Indo-European languages such as Pashtun and Armenian; the isolate Dravidian language Brahui in the south-east; and Georgian (a member of the Kartvelian language family), spoken only by those Iranian Georgians that live in Fereydan and Fereydunshahr.

Gautama Buddha in world religions

The Greek legend of "Barlaam and Ioasaph", sometimes mistakenly attributed to the 7th century John of Damascus but actually written by the Georgian monk Euthymius in the 11th century, was ultimately derived, through a variety of intermediate versions (Arabic and Georgian) from the life story of the Buddha.

Georgian Tragedy of Kerch

Georgian Tragedy of Kerch (Georgian: ქერჩის ქართული ტრაგედია) was a tragic event occurred during World War II offensive by Nazi German army against the Soviet forces mostly composed of ethnic Georgians, in the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.

Jumber Patiashvili

He organized an oppositional Unity (ertoba in Georgian) party joining the oppositional bloc united behind the Democratic Revival Party led by Aslan Abashidze, regional leader of Ajaria, and was elected in the Parliament of Georgia.

Russian Old-Orthodox Church

Its distinctive feature is that liturgical services are held in both Slavonic and Old Georgian, using pre-18th century Old Georgian liturgical books.

Sakartvelos Gogona Skautebis Asociacia 'Dia'

Dia itself is an ancient Georgian feminine name, referring to the goddess associated in Georgian pre-Christian mythology with the planet Jupiter.

Solomon Caesar Malan

After serving various curacies, he was presented in 1845 to the living of Broadwindsor, Dorset, which he held until 1886 During this entire period he continued to augment his linguistic knowledge; he was able to preach in Georgian, on a visit which he paid to Nineveh in 1872.

Trialeti Range

The highest point is Mount Shaviklde (meaning "Black Cliff" in Georgian) at an elevation of 2,850 meters above sea level (9,348 ft.).

Ty kto takoy? Davay, do svidaniya!

In August 2012, a group of Georgian opposition members used the phrase "Ty kto takoy? Davay, do svidaniya!" targeting president Mikheil Saakashvili in a meykhana of their own, which they sang in Georgian and released for public view.


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Ambrosius of Georgia

He graduated from the Tiflis Theological Seminary in 1885 and was ordained to the priesthood in Abkhazia where he served as a priest in Sukhumi, New Athos, and Lykhny, and also delivered courses in the Georgian language.