| Topic: | Georgia (1 of 1), Read 2 times |
| Conf: | Братья Карамазовы (Russian) |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 30, 1999 12:33 PM |
>1) What people are
Georgians
>rascially?
Sorry, what racial classification do you
prefer?
>2) When did they move to the
>region, and from
where?
They always lived there.
>3) Since when did they
become
>Orthodox?
Christianity was preached in Georgia by St. Nina
from Cappadocia, in 357.
>4) Do they have their own
>Patriarchy
or do they belong
>to Russian Patriarch?
They have their own
Patriarchy. Current Patriarch is Ilia II.
>5) When was
Georgia
>incorporated into
Russian
>Empire?
1801.
>6) With what neighbours
does
>Georgia get along? With what
>it does not?
Neighbor
countries are Russia (in the North), Azerbaijan (in the East), Armenia (in the
South) and Turkey (in the South-East).