Georgia 2023

The footage of this video was shot almost exclusively during a two-week round trip through Georgia in September 2023. And instead of telling the story of this trip in chronological order, the idea was to tell the history of Georgia in about 5 minutes with the help of the footage and some music. Of course, compressing the country's changeful and complex history in such a way means leaving out many details. Hopefully this experiment has become entertaining and historically accurate ...
Timestamps
00:00 An Old Legend
0:25 Georgia was settled early
0:41 Kingdom of Colchis. Jason and the Golden Fleece
1:11 Uplistsikhe and Georgian letters
2:01 Empires dominated Georgia
2:24 Queen Tamar and Vardzia
3:23 Medieval bad times for Georgia
3:38 Russian expansion and annexation of Georgia
3:56 Stalin
5:21 Georgia 1991 - 2023