For the Issue of Olympic Movement History in Georgia
For its geographical location Georgia represents the part of old cultural world situated on the border of two continents-Europe and Asia. Such location always provided Georgia’s cultural and agricultural promotion during its long history. As it is well-known, from VIII century of old era, on the south-east of the Black Sea and later on the east (Georgian today) coast Greek settlements appeared. First settlements were Sinopi, Pazisi, Gienosi, Dioskuria, etc. Greek settlements also appeared on the west and north coasts of the Black Sea in the VII-VI centuries of the old era. Greek settlements played an important role in the process of cultural-economic development of the Black sea population with the antique world. Keeping in mind the history of old Greece and Georgia’s military-political, economical and cultural relations, it should not be surprising that these relations revealed in sport life that made the basements of Olympic movement in Georgia.