Georgia

Author: Laxman Burdak, IFS (R)

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Georgia Map

Georgia Map

Georgia Map

Georgia (Hindi:जियोर्जिया, Georgian: საქართველო Sakartvelo, IPA: [sɑkʰɑrtʰvɛlɔ]) is a country in Russia in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. The capital and largest city is Tbilisi.

Variants

• Georgia (Anabasis by Arrian, p. 155.)

Location

Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan.

जियोर्जिया

जियोर्जिया (Georgia) - अरमेनियां में जहां पर देवता अर्थात् आर्यों को पूर्ण विजय प्राप्त हुई थी ‘जियोर्जिया’ कहलाता है, जो कि अपभ्रंश है ‘जब आर्य’ का।

Origin of name

• "Georgia" is an exonym, used in the West since the medieval period. It is presumably derived from the Persian designation of the Georgians, gurğ, ğurğ, borrowed around the time of the First Crusade, ultimately derived from the Middle Persian varkâna, meaning "land of Varkas".

• The name was etymologized as referring to St. George, explicitly so by the end of the 12th century by Jacques de Vitry, due to the Georgians' special reverence for that saint (see Tetri Giorgi).

• Early modern authors such as Jean Chardin tried to link the name to the literal meaning of Greek γεωργός ("tiller of the earth; agriculturalist").

History

Ram Sarup Joon writes that Dr. Huthi of Georgia paid a visit to India in 1967 and studied the Gujars living in Northern India. He has stated that there are Georgian tribes too among the Gujars because the accent of the Indian Gujars, their dress and their bullock carts resemble that of the Georgians. Dr. Huthi is of the view that they came to India when Timur let loose a reign of terror over them and consequently they settled here. They came here to protect their lives and religion and called themselves "Georgian", "Jorjars",. Later this word was changed into Gujjar. The "Khetana" caste of the Gujjars is also a proof of the fact that they came from Khotan.