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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)

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