The Geographic Web Site www.worldatlas.com places Georgia in Europe as do many European sources, such as the BBC. The UN classification of world regions places Georgia in Western Asia as does the CIA World Factbook

Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917 by Stephen F. Jones

Alasania, g. Twenty centuries of Christianity in Georgia. Library of Congress. Washington, DC

Meyer, Karl E. Icebergs in the caucasus. 07-01-2001 World Policy Journal

Theodor Dowling, Sketches of Georgian Church History, New York, 1912

Republic of Georgian Wines, Select Wines LLC

History of Wine I: The Ancients, Tynan Szvetecz, SavorEachGlass.com

[1], New York Times

Georgia on my mind, From Our Own Correspondent , BBC News Online, 30 December 2000

In Georgia, a Pilgrimage to the Cradle of Wine, CJ Chivers, New York Times Travel, October 8, 2006

David Marshall Lang, The Georgians, (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1966), 17-18.

David Marshall Lang, A Modern History of Soviet Georgia, (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1962), 5-6.

David Marshall Lang, The Georgians, (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1966), 17-18.

David Marshall Lang, A Modern History of Soviet Georgia, (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1962), 5-6.

Gvosdev (2000), p. 85

Avalov (1906), p. 186

Gvosdev (2000), p. 86

Lang (1957), p. 249

Lang (1957), p. 251

Lang (1957), p. 247

Lang (1957), p. 252

Anchabadze (2005), p. 29

Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917 by Stephen F. Jones

http://www.parliament.ge/pages/archive_en/history/his13.html From Georgian Parliament

http://eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav112204a.shtml

* http://www.kyivpost.com/bn/24927/ - "Georgian president proposes military reserve system for defense, disaster response"

Tbilisi prepares to send Abkhaz government-in-exile to Kodori, Zaal Anjaparidze

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/georgia/intro/index.htm

Georgia's way to NATO

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/georgia/intro/index.htm

http://www.mfa.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=78&info_id=1866

EU, Georgia Sign ENP Action Plan, Civil Georgia, October 2, 2006.

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/external_relations/georgia/intro/index.htm

& http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=13301 U.S. Concerned over Renewed Tensions in Georgia

National Museum of Georgia - [2]

CIA World Factbook - [3]

World Bank Economy Rankings.

See 2006 Russian ban of Moldovan and Georgian wines

Chavchavadze, Ilia. "Novels and Poetry". Ch. IV

Corruption Perceptions Index 2006

This figure includes the territories currently out of the Georgian government's control – Abkhazia and South Ossetia – whose total population, as of 2005, is estimated by the State Department of Statistics of Georgia at 227,200 (178,000 in Abkhazia plus 49,200 in South Ossetia). Statistical Yearbook of Georgia, 2005: Population (607kb, Microsoft Word Document).

CIA World Factbook, [4]

http://www.stnina.org/stnina/life/apostle

http://stnina.ca/stnina_life.html

CIA World Factbook, [5]