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They have such incredible names in Georgia:
"Givi Ghambashidze, chief of the Tsikhijvari archeological expedition ..."
Makes me wonder what is the Georgian for "Georgia."
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.
Oh, sorry, wrong Georgia. Never mind.
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Pipeline to the Past Is a Gift From Oil to ArchaeologyThe 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.
by Douglas Frantz
September 19, 2001
Shirvan Steppe Journal
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.
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