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SAKARTVELO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991
Synonyms:
Georgia; Sakartvelo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Sakartvelo"):
capital of Georgia; Tbilisi; Tiflis (the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river)
Abkhaz; Abkhazia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)
Adzhar; Adzharia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Sakartvelo"):
Georgian (a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia)
Holonyms ("Sakartvelo" is a part of...):
Transcaucasia (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)
Holonyms ("Sakartvelo" is a member of...):
CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
