Kavtradze, G. L.

Sokhumi State University

Institute of Georgian History and Ethnology

210

MARIE BROSSET
210
/Tbilisi
2012

Publishing House Meridiani
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Lia Akhaladze, Bejan Khorava, Kakha Kvashilava
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Giorgi L. Kavtaradze
Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology of Georgia

Georgia, the Caucasus and Geopolitics

Past and Present
The key importance of the location of the Caucasus was picturesquely stated already by Pliny
the Elder (Plinius Magnus), in the first century, namely that the Caucasian Gates divides the world in
two parts (NH, VI, XII, 30). Transcaucasia, as it was located in the edge of the civilized and barbarian
worlds, was an area of influences of these two opposite models of the historical development, but the
factor of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range determined its destination to be the outpost of the
highly developed Eurasian periphery against Central Eurasia, characterized by a slow rate of
development, or in other words, to be the stronghold of the civilized South and West against the
barbarian North and East.
There seems to be an interconnection between the formation of the statehood in Central
Transcaucasia and the urgent need to defend the Caucasian Gate (the Dariali Pass) from the
penetration of military forces from the North. Therefore the concrete political function of the Iberian
kingdom, like of other Trans-Caucasian countries located south from the Greater Caucasus Mountain
Range, was the control of one of the most important strategic passes of the world.
But the factors of the geopolitical character not only cause the emergence of the statehood in
Central Transcaucasia at the Classical epoch but also stipulated its historical development at the
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subsequent time, till now. The political history of the Georgia is mainly predetermined by its
geographical location.
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