Giorgi Sosiashvili is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Member of Parliament of Georgia and an invited professor at Iv. At Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, a board member at the National Committee for the History of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia and the scientific committee for the study of the Georgian villages of the Patriarchate of Georgia, the Chairman of the Permanent Conference of Rectors of Regional Universities of Georgia. Research fields: Issues of historical geography of Shida Kartli; Distinguished noble families of Georgia; Russia’s colonial policy in the Caucasus; Principalities of Kartli; European travelers in Georgia; Georgian-Ossetian relations. His works have been translated and published in: English, Russian, Turkish, German, Polish, Azerbaijani, Ossetian and Armenian languages. Email: giorgisosiashvili@gmail.com ORCID:0000-0002-2406-8662 

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