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Mtirala National Park is located in historical Achara. The territory of Mtirala is constructed by volcanic-sedimentary rocks of so-called “Naghvarevi Pack”, which are presented by alternation of sub-alkali and lime alkali basalts, trachiandesites, andesites, delenites, tuffites, marls and argillites. Mount Mtirala is located between the Black Sea and Achara mountain system on the watershed of Chakvistskali and Koraghitskali.These mountains intercept the humid air from the Black Sea and determine Achara's very humid climate. Generally, Achara is rich in atmospheric precipitation but the Mount Mtirala, height of which is 1381 m above sea lev...
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Let us invite you to a wonderful world of Georgian wines rich in quality and tradition!
Among them is Antique author Apollonius of Rhodes, who panegyrics Georgia in his Argonautica in 295 B.C. Georgia is filled with legends, ceremonies and traditions that posses the deepest appreciation for wine making. To taste the wine born in this land of warriors and poets, in a valley guarded by the mighty Caucasus range, located at the cross-roads of the East and West, is like a pleasant stroll through history!
Thousands years of knowledge, tradition, & excellence have contributed to the development of unique and exciting grape varietals...
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Transportation
Georgia is an easy country to reach by air, sea, road and rail. Thanks to its position on the historic Silk Road, it’s an ideal stepping stone on journey’s across Eurasia, and is also an ideal short break destination from the rest of Europe, with flights to most destinations taking from three to five hours.
Air:
Both Tbilisi and Batumi are served by newly built, state-of-the-art international airports, with another planned for Kutaisi. Tbilisi is served by a large number of international airlines, and the base of operations for Georgian carriers. There are direct flights to Germany, France, the UK, the Netherlands, ...
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Georgian language belongs to the Iberian – Caucasian group of languages.
There are 3 dialects in Georgian (Kartvelian) language (Georgian, Svan and Mengrelo – Laz dialects). Georgian alphabet is one of the 14 existing alphabets in the world. It consists of 33 letters.
Many scientists believe that Georgian alphabet was derived from one of the Semitic alphabets around 6th – 5th century BC. The alphabet has been modernized during centuries, but keeps the original roots.
One Georgian historian informs us that Georgian script was created in the 3rd c. BC by Georgian King Parnavaz. The mosaic inscription in the Judean desert in Palestine...
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The currency of Georgia is the lari (GEL). One lari is made up of 100 tetri (still referred to by many people as kopecks!). Bank notes come in denominations of one, two, five, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 lari; coins are 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 tetri, and one and two lari.
ATMs, generally accepting MasterCard, Visa, Cirrus and Maestro cards, are plentiful in cities and most towns.
There are also plenty of small money-exchange offices in most towns and cities; they usually take US dollars, euros or Russian roubles.
It’s useful to have some of these currencies in cash for times when there isn’t a convenient ATM nearby. You can make purc...
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It is known that the genre of the epos proper had older legends and parables as its source. And if we pay attention to the texts of lamentations connected with the cult of the dead (the description of the life of a deceased person, his heroic or kind deeds, etc.), we shall easily see that one of the sources of the epic genre was connected with lamentations.
the performance of the epos required merging of different forms. It can be presented as a theatrical show, where some episodes are per¬formed by the choir of singer-dancers and the intervals between Perkhulis were filled in with a chanting narration. Some traces of such a synthesi...
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