Georgia

Georgia has two principal meanings:

• Georgia (country) Georgia (Georgian: საქართველო, IPA: [sɑkʰɑrtʰvɛlɔ] ; English pronunciation: /ˈdʒɔrdʒə/ ( listen)) is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia,, previously known as:
  • Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Georgian SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union (1921–1991), part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Democratic Republic of Georgia The Democratic Republic of Georgia , 1918–1921, was the first modern establishment of a Republic of Georgia (1918–1921)
  • Georgian Kingdom, various earlier Georgian kingdoms and states; see History of Georgia The history of Georgia began with the rise of the early Georgian states of Colchis and Iberia, which c. 1000 BC formed the Georgian civilization and achieved its renaissance and golden age in the twelfth through thirteenth centuries. The history of Georgia has been marked by a series of invasions and subjugation by several empires (such as Rome,
• Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is bordered on the south by Florida; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina; on the west by Alabama and by Florida in the south; and on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina. The northern part of the state is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a mountain range in the vast Appalachian Mountains system. The central piedmont, previously known as:
  • The Confederate State of Georgia (1861–1870), part of the Confederate States of America; see Georgia in the American Civil War Thinking the state safe from invasion, the Confederates built several small munitions factories in Georgia, as well as housing tens of thousands of Union prisoners. Their largest prisoner of war camp, at Andersonville, proved a death camp because of severe lack of supplies, food, water, and medicine
  • Province of Georgia The Province of Georgia was one of the Southern colonies in British America. It was the last of the thirteen original colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States. In the original grant, a narrow strip of the province extended to the Mississippi River (1732–1776)

Georgia may also refer to:

Places

• Georgia, Indiana Georgia is an unincorporated community in Spice Valley Township, Lawrence County, Indiana, United States
• Georgia, Vermont Georgia is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,375 at the 2000 census, United States
• Georgia Avenue Georgia Avenue is a major north-south artery in Northwest Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. Within the District of Columbia, Georgia Avenue is also U.S. Route 29. Both Howard University and Walter Reed Army Medical Center are on Georgia Avenue, in Washington, DC, United States
• Georgia Street Georgia Street, more officially West Georgia Street, is a major street in Downtown Vancouver. It serves as the one of the primary streets for the financial and central business districts, and is the major transportation corridor connecting downtown Vancouver with the North Shore by way of the Lions Gate Bridge. West of Seymour Street, the, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• New Georgia New Georgia is the largest island of the Western Province of the Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands, the South Sandwich Islands. South Georgia is 167.4 kilometres (104.0 mi) long and 1.4 to 37 km (0.87 to 23 miles) wide and is, British overseas territory in the South Atlantic/Southern Ocean
• Strait of Georgia The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait , is a strait between Vancouver Island (as well as its nearby Gulf Islands) and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is approximately 240 kilometres (150 mi) long and varies in width from 18.5 to 55 km (11.5 to 34 mi). Archipelagos and narrow channels mark each end of the Strait of, British Columbia, Canada

Media and entertainment

• Georgia (1988 film) Georgia is a 1988 Australian thriller film directed by Ben Lewin starring Judy Davis and John Bach, Australian thriller
• Georgia (1995 film) Georgia is a 1995 American independent film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham. In the film, Leigh played Sadie Flood, a punky barroom singer who has a complicated, jealous but loving relationship with her older sister, Georgia, played by Winningham. Georgia is a successful, talented and well-adjusted folk music singer and a happily, American independent drama
• Georgia (2010 film), U.S.–Georgian drama about Georgia's conflict with Russia
• "Georgia" (song), 2005 song by Field Mob
• "Georgia on My Mind "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics). It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael . However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or to a woman named "Georgia&", 1930 song by Hoagy Carmichael
• "Sweet Georgia Brown "Sweet Georgia Brown" is a jazz standard and pop tune written in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey (lyrics)", a 1925 jazz standard and pop tune
• "Georgia," 2007 song by Hanson, on the album The Walk The Walk is an album by American pop rock group Hanson. It was released on July 24, 2007 in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and on April 30, 2007 in the UK and on February 21, 2007 in Japan. Being the second release of the band's own independent label, 3CG Records, this record is said to be much heavier and different than Underneath, and reflects the

Ships

• CSS Georgia (battery), floating battery, commissioned 1863
• CSS Georgia (cruiser), merchantman, commissioned 1863
• SS Georgia, oil tanker, commissioned 1908
• USS Georgia (BB-15), battleship, commissioned 1906
• USS Georgia (SSGN-729), submarine, commissioned 1984

Other uses

• Georgia (drink) Georgia is the name of a popular brand of coffee-flavored beverages sold by The Coca-Cola Company. It was launched in 1975 by Coca-Cola (Japan) Company, a Japanese subsidiary of the company. It has since expanded to markets in Singapore, India and Bahrain. Georgia enjoys the most success in Japan, where it is the highest-grossing coffee beverage
• Georgia (name), female given name
• Georgia (typeface)
• Georgia-Pacific Georgia-Pacific LLC. is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals. As of fall 2008, the company employed approximately 50,000 people at more than 300 locations in North America, South, an American pulp and paper company
• University of Georgia The University of Georgia is an American public research university located in Athens, Georgia, the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning. Not only is UGA the oldest state-chartered university in the state, it is also the oldest such university in the United States. Founded in 1785, UGA is one of multiple schools to, a major public research university in the U.S. state
• Georgia Bulldogs The Georgia Bulldogs are the athletic teams of The University of Georgia. The Bulldogs compete in the Southeastern Conference. All Georgia athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs, and Uga the Bulldog, of whom Uga VII is the latest in a much-beloved lineage, is the official school mascot, the athletic program of the University of Georgia

See also

• All pages beginning with "Georgia"
• Georgian (disambiguation)
• George (disambiguation)

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