About Georgia
Georgia is considered by many to be the most beautiful country in the world. Towering mountains, snow, canyons, forests, lots of water. Little desert in the east. A short flight away from Israel, breathtaking landscapes and great food, Georgia has become the new charm. The story the Georgians tell is that God distributed the countries to the people of the world – the Georgians did not come. And when they arrived the next day God asked them why you didn’t come yesterday and they answered him that they drank in his honor. God was moved by the answer and decided to give them the last lot he kept for himself and that is Georgia. As mentioned, Georgia is built between and within the Caucasus mountain range and the clear and clean air gives a feeling of paradise.
Georgia is a big country – three times the size of the State of Israel and we will try on this trip to see and understand as much as possible about its culture and heritage. After you return to Israel you will no longer think of Georgia as the same. The Georgians are a people who love to live and believe in friendship and a lot of wine. A nation that loves the Jews and Israel and has never experienced anti-Semitism of any kind in Georgia. Georgia is a poor country that is mainly rural, with spectacular landscapes, great food and warm and hospitable people.
Georgia Basics: Where & What?
Georgia the country is geographically located in southwest Asia, identifies itself as European, and can be geopolitically considered the Middle East. Which gets confusing. As a shape, it resembles a squashed panini crammed between the Sochi part of Russia and eastern Turkey, with a short coastline on the east edge of the Black Sea. It’s about half the size of Georgia the state with about a third of the population (3.7 million to over 10.5 million). It uses its own alphabet. Literally nobody else uses the Georgian writing script except the Georgians. Are they being stubborn? Probably. And incidentally, Georgia doesn’t call itself Georgia. Its official name is Sakartvelo. So the easiest way to tell the difference between the Georgias is to call the country Sakartvelo (as Lithuania started doing this year) and let Georgia the state keep its name. Easy.
Capital Marketing
Both Georgia capitals – Tbilisi and Atlanta – are linked in that they advertise something by nomenclature. Once a flourishing part of the Silk Road, Tbilisi is named for “warm water,” due to all the sulphuric springs in the area. Atlanta got its name in the 1840s from a suggested railroad name, the Atlantica-Pacifica. Tbilisi’s warm waters doesn’t mean warmer temperatures. It’s about 10 degrees cooler than Atlanta, on average, except in summer when their temperatures almost match. Also, both cities are positioned about as far as one go from their respective coastlines. Yet Elton John only has a home in Atlanta.
Wine All Around
Georgia the state was one of the USA’s biggest wine producers in the 1800s, and was the sixth-largest wine-producing state in the early 1900s. Then Prohibition cast a wet blanket on everything until the 1980s, when Georgia’s homegrown vintners started winning awards on the world’s wine stage. Still it’s nothing to Georgia the country, which is one of the world’s oldest wine-growing regions. (And, frankly, better to taste.) Wine is part of Georgia’s national identity. The country produces whites and reds from more than 400 grape varieties. As in France, Georgian wines are defined by region, such as the respected Kakheti region in eastern Georgia.
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