Countries

Georgia

Georgia sits where Europe meets Asia, between the Black Sea and the peaks of the Greater Caucasus. Christian since the 4th century, it writes its language in its own alphabet and has made wine in buried clay jars called qvevri for about 8,000 years.

Rows of rock-cut cave dwellings of the Vardzia monastery honeycombing a steep cliff face in southern Georgia

Vardzia, the cave monastery

Photo: The coffe girl, CC BY-SA 4.0

Known as the five-cross flag: a large red St George's cross with four smaller crosses on white. Based on a medieval Georgian banner, it became the national flag in 2004.

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