Historic and New Silk Road Perspectives of the European Integration of Georgia
By Nika Chitadze, PhD, Director, Center for International Studies, International Black Sea University, Tbilisi
Georgia is a small country on the crossroads of Europe and Asia. At the same time, together with the economic benefits for the country, which had and has its important geopolitical place between different civilizations, there were frequent confrontations for the gaining control over Georgia and Caucasus Region due to the fact, that modern territory of Georgia was located on one of the branch of the Great Silk Road. Historic Silk Road was functioning since 8-7-th Centuries B.C. till the middle of 15-th Century.
After the collapse of Constantinople in 1453, the interregional Silk Road lost its function, and Georgia was in a very difficult situation, that spanned centuries.
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| External Relations | The Caucasus and the Black Sea
