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Georgian Archaeologists Discover Basilica Of Middle Ages
Batumi News ^ | 7-4-2004

Posted on 07/07/2004 6:06:58 PM PDT by blam

Georgian archeologists discover basilica of middle ages

Posted: 05/07/04

Georgian archeologists have discovered a monastery complex of the middle ages in the south-west of the village Bakuriani, at the 1700 m of the Black Sea altitude.

The archeologists were working on the 185 km of the Baku-Tbilisi-Geyhan pipeline traffic. Givi Ghambashidze, chief of the Tsikhijvari archeological expedition, said that they have found a massive stone wall, in the interior of which they discovered basilica cells, important ceramic utensils, remains of the building.

The scientists have studied a third of the monastery. The archeological research center at the Georgian Academy of Sciences is holding negotiations with the British company BP on the preservation of the important archeological discovery, and for the thorough study of the complex, shifting of the pipeline construction traffic.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ages; archaeologists; archaeology; basilica; economic; georgian; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; middle

1 posted on 07/07/2004 6:07:01 PM PDT by blam
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To: FairOpinion

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 07/07/2004 6:07:36 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

They have such incredible names in Georgia:

"Givi Ghambashidze, chief of the Tsikhijvari archeological expedition ..."

Makes me wonder what is the Georgian for "Georgia."


3 posted on 07/07/2004 6:10:34 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Tautologies are the only horses I bet on. -- Old Professer)
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To: blam
The only thing I could google on Givi Gambashidze was this.

On May 23 a Georgian delegation comprised of Bishop Dimitri (Shiolashvili) of Batumi and Skhalta, archaeologist Givi Gambashidze and editor of "Sapatriarkos Utskebani" ("Patriarchate News") Zurab Tskhovrebadze. The visit was regarding the reinterment of Georgian kings Vakhtang VI and Teimuraz II and their accompanied clergy to Georgia.

The delegation was met by Bishop John (Karpukhin) of Astrakhan and Enotaevsk, whom they give letters of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Aleksi II and His Holiness and Eminence Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II about the reinterment of the Georgian kings and clergy to Georgia. On the same day the delegation met with the authorities, particularly with Governor of Astrakhan, Mr. Anatoli Guzhavin. The meeting was held in warm and friendly atmosphere. The Astrakhan side expressed its wish to script the date after the reinterment to Georgia on the grave stones.

It was decided that at the end of August the delegation would again visit Astrakhan and archaeological excavations would start. It is considered that the reiternment of the Georgian kings to the motherland will be held in the middle of September.

4 posted on 07/07/2004 6:17:21 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: blam
They found Tara?

Oh, sorry, wrong Georgia. Never mind.

5 posted on 07/07/2004 6:23:14 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina (Past performance is no guarantee of future results... I hope.)
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To: Tax-chick
They have such incredible names in Georgia

It's an interesting place with one of the world's oldest languages as well. I think anyone knowledgeable(not me) who studies anhtropology, would tell you that it's one of the great cultural hot spots of all time.
6 posted on 07/07/2004 6:37:26 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Tax-chick
Makes me wonder what is the Georgian for "Georgia."

I don't know how it's pronounced, but they spell it 'h-e-r-e'.

7 posted on 07/07/2004 7:30:30 PM PDT by solitas (I just want to hear three words from kerry: "Oh, my heart!")
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To: *Gods, Graves, Glyphs; A.J.Armitage; abner; adam_az; AdmSmith; Alas Babylon!; blam; NukeMan; ...
PING

This is a "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" -- Archeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc. PING list.

Please FREEPMAIL me, if you want on or off this list.

8 posted on 07/07/2004 9:03:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: blam

Anthropologists at work bump.


9 posted on 07/07/2004 9:04:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("A republic, if we can revive it")
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To: MarMema; Destro

Thought you might find this interesting.


10 posted on 07/07/2004 10:37:08 PM PDT by NYer (When you have done something good, remember the words "without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5).)
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To: blam
Pipeline to the Past Is a Gift From Oil to Archaeology
by Douglas Frantz
September 19, 2001
Shirvan Steppe Journal
The site, about 70 miles south of Baku, the capital, appears to be the remains of a village from the 11th or 12th century. It is where the Kura meandered its way to the Caspian Sea a millennium ago, and its discovery heartened the team trying to redraw history's greatest trade route, the Silk Road.

Cave dwellings dating to 12,000 B.C. have been discovered in Azerbaijan and its earliest inhabitants are credited with domesticating grapes, cherries and apples. Some believe that horses were domesticated here 5,000 years ago. But much of the region's ancient history has been unexplored.

Azerbaijani archaeologists and a few others from outside the country think that the country had a thriving civilization in the Bronze Age, dating to about 2,500 B.C., and that its traders and herdsmen eventually migrated to Mesopotamia and beyond.

11 posted on 07/07/2004 10:49:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: Tax-chick

The regian was named Georgia from the ancient Greeks - Georgia meaning rich farm land.


12 posted on 07/08/2004 9:42:14 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Destro

Interesting. Any idea what the "vernacular" name is?


13 posted on 07/08/2004 9:44:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Tautologies are the only horses I bet on. -- Old Professer)
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To: Tax-chick

I used to know - I will google it up.


14 posted on 07/08/2004 9:50:26 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Tax-chick
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Georgia_(country) Georgia (Sakartvelo in Georgian), Georgians call themselves Kartvelebi, their land Sakartvelo, and their language Kartuli. These names are derived from a pagan god called Kartlos, said to be the father of all Georgians. The foreign name Georgia, used throughout Western Europe, is mistakenly believed to come from the country's patron saint, St. George. Another theory purports that the name comes from the Greek (for earth), because when the Greeks came to Georgia they saw the Georgians working the land, however this is clearly a case of folk etymology. The term is actually derived from Arabic Jurj, which in turn comes from Persian Gurj.

The Classical world knew the inhabitants of eastern Georgia as Iberians, from the Caucasian kingdom of Iberia — thus confusing the geographers of antiquity, who thought this name applied only to the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

Gurj, the Persian designation for the Georgians, is also the source of Turkish Gürci (pronounced "Gürdji") and Russian Gruzin. The name of the country is Gurjestan in Persian, Gürcistan in Turkish, and Gruzija in Russian. The Persian name is probably related to the Armenian words for Georgian and Georgia, respectively Vir and Vrastan. (There are other instances in which a Persian word-initial gu- is derived from an earlier wi- or wa-.) Thus, both the Persian and the Armenian words appear to be related to the name Iberia, with loss of the initial i- and substitution of w or v for the b of Iberia.

There is also, in all likelihood, an etymological connection between the name Iberia and the historic province of Georgia called Imereti.

Very confusing, eh?

15 posted on 07/08/2004 9:58:06 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Destro

Cool - thanks for your time! The language sounds like they're chewing rocks!


16 posted on 07/08/2004 10:01:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Tautologies are the only horses I bet on. -- Old Professer)
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To: blam

BTTT


17 posted on 06/24/2007 10:12:58 PM PDT by Cincinna (HILLARY & HER HINO :: Keep the Arkansas Grifters out of the White house.)
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