On 5/21/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
"(a) Georgia-the-state is significantly older than Georgia-the-country,"
I'm awestruck. Awestruck.
Read the article and find out, KP. It should be obvious from context that I do not mean that the land has been unoccupied or that there is no history there. It is, however, the case that the modern independent state has only existed since the division of the Soviet Union. Prior to that, it was an administrative division of the USSR with similar status to the state of Georgia within the United States; approximately the same area was briefly independent 1918-1921 after the collapse of the Russian Empire.
Thus, prior to 1991, the area was (except for three years) a division of a larger nation during the previous 250 years or so, and thus of similar status to the Georgia in the US.
-Matt