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History
1 Akopov Arkadi The District of Khotorjur: Historical and Geographical Observations
2 Aronishidze Nodar The Hall Church of Zendidi in the Context of Rectangular-Sanctuary Churches (An Architectural Analysis of the Monument and an Attempt at Dating)
3 Chikvaidze Tsira The Transformation of United States Educational Policy During the Presidency of Donald Trump
4 Chumburidze Dodo Towards an Assessment of the Ideological and Methodological Aspects of Dimitri Kipiani’s Historical Thought
5 Elena Diakova Dmitry Gordeev - Georgian researcher from Kharkov
6 Gelashvili Nana The Anti-Iranian Rebellions of Kakheti in 1521 and 1524 and their Consequences
7 Gogonaia Irina Plants in Georgian Manuscripts: The Preparation of Plant-Based Oils and Cultural Practices (on the Example of Karabadin S 1122b)
8 Harutyunyan Anush From Imperial Categories to Soviet Classification: The 1921 Agricultural Census as a Statistical and Ethnographic Source
9 Hayrapetyan Armen The Eastern Policy of the Byzantine Empire in the South Caucasus during the 10th–11th Centuries (According to Armenian Sources)
10 Javakhia Bezhan The Phenomenon of the Holy King and the Legitimization of Power in the Middle Ages
11 Kamadadze Kakhaber Khikhani fortress - the family residence of the Abuserisdzes
12 Ketsbaia, Tamari The Transformation of Civic Organizing in the South Caucasus: The Soviet Rupture and Post-Soviet Development Trajectories in a Historical Perspective
13 Kistauri Gela Issues in the Ethnohistory of the Ghudi Gorge
14 MARGARYAN Gor Projecting the Mongol Conquest onto the Russian Context: Russian Imperial and Soviet Influence on the Armenian Historiography of the Mongol–Tatar Period
15 Mamoulia Georges Unknown Pages in the History of the Georgian National Liberation Movement during the Crimean War of 1853–1856
16 Martirosyan Arman Awakening the “Tamed” Spirit and Lost Grandeur of a Nation: British Travelers’ Assessment of Russian/Internal Colonization in the South Caucasus in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
17 Menteshashvili Ivane Napoleon and His System of Government
18 Meshvelishvili, Tea Georgia on Early Twentieth-Century Postcards: The Collection of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Library
19 Neufville Camille Creating an Imperial Tea Industry in the Caucasus : The Transnational Past and Soviet Afterlives of a Colonial Project (1840s-1940s)
20 Pipia Natia Colchian and Iberian Women Outside Georgia in Classical Antiquity
21 Puturidze Marine For the Problem of Social Stratification of the Middle Bronze Age Trialeti Culture
22 Simashvili Tengiz Anti-Religious Policy in Soviet Georgia in the 1920s (Based on Archival Materials)
23 Tchkoidze Eka Between Translation and Interpretation: The Russo–Ottoman War (1828–1829) in the Georgian and Russian Issues of Tiflis Vedomosti
24 Tinikashvili David A Silence That Speaks: Orthodox Georgia and Rome
25 Tiphaine GINGELWEIN Turning Soviet Ruins into Sports Halls: Managing Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Georgia through Sport
26 Tsertsvadze Maia The Royal House of Kartli-Kakheti in the Conspiracy of 1832

Philology
27 Akhvlediani, Tsiuri About the word "euro" in French Language
28 Baloyan Varduhi, European Children’s Literature in Tiflis and Alexandropol Print Culture
29 Beburishvili Levan Galaktion Tabidze and Classical Poetry
30 Bokuchava Nino Zaira Arsenishvili's Woe is Life: Kakhetian Chronicles as a Fiction of Memory
31 Buskivadze Mzisa Female Subjectivity, Trauma, and Alienation in Ayfer Tunç’s Novels (The Night of the Color Green and My Mother’s Sleepless Nights)
32 Chulukhidze Aleksandre Mythological and Religious Terminology of Iranian Origin in Georgian
33 Doiashvili Temur Symbolist Tendencies in Galaktion Tabidze’s Early Lyric Poetry
34 Gaboidze Julieta Innovations and Challenges of the New Academic Two-Volume Edition of Nikoloz Baratashvili’s Works
35 Gejua Keso From the Toponymy of Abkhazia (Based on the Village of Gagida in the Gali Municipality)
36 Ghaghanidze Merab Georgia – the Country of St. George
37 Ghambashidze Nestani The Christian Roots of Liberal Ideology
38 Jangulashvili Natia Interpretation of The Martyrdom of the Children of Kola in Sandro Mrevlishvili's Dramaturgy
39 Jorbenadze, Nino On Several Examples of Student-Centered Teaching in the Georgian Educational Context
40 Kardava Phridon The Literary Transformation of a Historical Figure: Identifying the Prototype of Asmat in Kartlis Tskhovreba
41 Kekua Sophio Changes in Toponyms in the Gali District (Based on the Village of Pirveli Gali)
42 Ketevan The Old Georgian Translation of Palladius of Helenopolis’s Lausiac History and the First Female Monastics
43 Kikvidze Zeinab Literary Representation of the Caucasian Conflicts in the Diary Genre
44 Kupradze Nana Aspects of the Hero’s Existential Transformation in Vazha-Pshavela’s Poem Gogotur and Apshina
45 Kutivadze Nestan The Gender Issue in Revaz Inanishvili’s Short Story “Someone Is Late for the Bus”
46 Madatyan Lusine The Narrative Function of Instantaneous Time in Armenian Folktales
47 Mania Esma Galaktion Tabidze’s Transfer of European Literature and Forms of Reflection on This Knowledge
48 Marjanishvili Mariam Leo Kereselidze: A Political Portrait - An Attempt at Assessment
49 Metreveli Teona Nikoloz Baratashvili’s Creative Laboratory According to One Manuscript Collection
50 Mrevlishvili Nana Antithesis as a Rhetorical and Theological Strategy in the Greek and Georgian Recensions of the Life of Theodora of Alexandria
51 Nadareishvili Maia Legal and Linguistic Dimensions of King Tamar’s Status: Comparable Cases Worldwide
52 Nana Gamkrelidze Modern Strategies for Teaching the German Language to Students of Technical Faculties
53 Ninidze Maia An Interdisciplinary Study of a Mysterious Note by Galaktion Tabidze
54 Pataridze Salome The Semantics of Women’s Culture of Remembrance in Twentieth-Century Georgian Women’s Narratives
55 Sadiqova Konul Information on the history of Nakhchivan in the work “The Mirror of Time in the History of the Nobles”, one of the medieval Arabic-language manuscripts
56 Shatirishvili Lela Plant Components of Holy Anointing Oils in Ancient Georgian Written Sources
57 Sikharulidze Natia Intertextual Reference Points and Cultural Contexts of Artistic Flowers
58 Simonishvili Mari Towards an Understanding of New Historicism: Creative Tendencies in the Works of Givi Margvelashvili
59 Sulava Nestan For the interpretation of the icon-face of the king and the regent in Georgian "Balavariani"
60 Surmava Tamta The Cult of Queen Ketevan and the Foundations of the Principle of “Truth-Telling” in the Works of Teimuraz I
61 Tkebuchava Diana The Fate of the Megrelian Language: Past, Present, and Future (Following a Journalistic Essay by Tedo Sakhokia)
62 Tskiskarishvili Tinatini The most critically endangered language in Georgia
63 მულიანი გიორგი ფერეიდნული დიალექტის შიდადიფერენციაცია

Art studies, archeology and numismatics
64 Burtchuladze Nana Images of Saint Hilarion the Iberian in Medieval Georgian Art
65 Dolidze Irma Mikheil Chkhikvadze - Theater Architect
66 Meskhi Ana The Amirani Cycle and Upper Palaeolithic Art Deciphering the La Femme au Renne Composition
67 Tsagareli Tamar Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University. Associate Professor Tbilisi, Georgia

culturology
68 Khotcholava-Matchavariani, Nana Toponymy Reflecting Wheat Cultivation in Georgia and Its Educational Potential

Ethnology, Anthropology, and Sociology
69 Chotalishvili, Lela Caucasian Ritual Bread: Ethnobotanical Traditions and Linguistic Archetypes
70 Galstyan Hasmik Dakhanavar: The Specifics of the Vampire Figure in Armenian Lower Mythology
71 Kalandarishvili Saba Returning to the Historical Homeland: Visits and the Formation of Transnational Ties among Georgians Living in Fatsa
72 Kamushadze Tea Socialization in the Digital Age: An Ethnographic Analysis of Online Interactions
73 Tavartkiladze, Nino The Anatori Crypts: Using Oral Traditions and Bioarchaeological Evidence to Reconstruct Past Epidemics

History, Source Studies, Archaeology
74 Bendeliani Mediko The Biblical Origins of the Georgian Asomtavruli Alphabet and the Question of Its Establishment as a State Script in Iberia in The Knight in the Panther’s Skin and Exegetical Sources
75 Chkhaidze Nodari The Question of Identifying the Members of Sandro Akhmeteli’s Revolutionary Detachment
76 Chkoidze Eka Between Translation and Interpretation: The Russo–Ottoman War (1828–1829) in the Georgian and Russian Issues of Tiflis Vedomosti
77 Gureshidze Mariam The Question of the Settlement of Kurdish Sufis, Followers of the Naqshbandiyya and Qadiriyya Orders, in the Caucasus and the City of Tbilisi during the Reign of King David the Builder
78 Karchava Tea Theodore Spandounes on the Matrimonial Alliance between the Kantakouzenoi and the Bagrationi: Historical Speculation or Reality?
79 Khorava Bezhan Administrative-Territorial Division of Georgia within the Russian Empire (1801–1917)
80 Merkviladze Davit Reflections of “Kashveti” and Its Festivals in the Central Caucasus Highland Region
81 Nadiradze Dodo A Comparative Analysis of the Accounts of Sekhnia Chkheidze and Tadeusz Krusiński
82 Rova Elena Kurgan Fields in the Gardabani region: an overview of recent research (authors: E. Rova, F. Bianchi, S. Claut, G. Omaidze)
83 Sartania Mikheil Toward a Political Portrait of Leo Shengelaia
84 Slye Sarah Technology, Infrastructure and Identity in the North Caucasus under Russian Rule
85 Zaridze Tea The State of the Georgian Church in the Nineteenth Century According to the Archival Materials of Polievktos Karbelashvili

Philology
86 Akhvlediani, Tsiuri About the word "euro" in French Language
87 Baloyan Varduhi, European Children’s Literature in Tiflis and Alexandropol Print Culture
88 Beburishvili Levan Galaktion Tabidze and Classical Poetry
89 Bokuchava Nino Zaira Arsenishvili's Woe is Life: Kakhetian Chronicles as a Fiction of Memory
90 Buskivadze Mzisa Female Subjectivity, Trauma, and Alienation in Ayfer Tunç’s Novels (The Night of the Color Green and My Mother’s Sleepless Nights)
91 Chulukhidze Aleksandre Mythological and Religious Terminology of Iranian Origin in Georgian
92 Doiashvili Temur Symbolist Tendencies in Galaktion Tabidze’s Early Lyric Poetry
93 Gaboidze Julieta Innovations and Challenges of the New Academic Two-Volume Edition of Nikoloz Baratashvili’s Works
94 Gejua Keso From the Toponymy of Abkhazia (Based on the Village of Gagida in the Gali Municipality)
95 Ghaghanidze Merab Georgia – the Country of St. George
96 Ghambashidze Nestani The Christian Roots of Liberal Ideology
97 Jangulashvili Natia Interpretation of The Martyrdom of the Children of Kola in Sandro Mrevlishvili's Dramaturgy
98 Jorbenadze, Nino On Several Examples of Student-Centered Teaching in the Georgian Educational Context
99 Kardava Phridon The Literary Transformation of a Historical Figure: Identifying the Prototype of Asmat in Kartlis Tskhovreba
100 Kekua Sophio Changes in Toponyms in the Gali District (Based on the Village of Pirveli Gali)
101 Ketevan The Old Georgian Translation of Palladius of Helenopolis’s Lausiac History and the First Female Monastics
102 Kikvidze Zeinab Literary Representation of the Caucasian Conflicts in the Diary Genre
103 Kupradze Nana Aspects of the Hero’s Existential Transformation in Vazha-Pshavela’s Poem Gogotur and Apshina
104 Kutivadze Nestan The Gender Issue in Revaz Inanishvili’s Short Story “Someone Is Late for the Bus”
105 Madatyan Lusine The Narrative Function of Instantaneous Time in Armenian Folktales
106 Mania Esma Galaktion Tabidze’s Transfer of European Literature and Forms of Reflection on This Knowledge
107 Marjanishvili Mariam Leo Kereselidze: A Political Portrait - An Attempt at Assessment
108 Metreveli Teona Nikoloz Baratashvili’s Creative Laboratory According to One Manuscript Collection
109 Mrevlishvili Nana Antithesis as a Rhetorical and Theological Strategy in the Greek and Georgian Recensions of the Life of Theodora of Alexandria
110 Nadareishvili Maia Legal and Linguistic Dimensions of King Tamar’s Status: Comparable Cases Worldwide
111 Nana Gamkrelidze Modern Strategies for Teaching the German Language to Students of Technical Faculties
112 Ninidze Maia An Interdisciplinary Study of a Mysterious Note by Galaktion Tabidze
113 Pataridze Salome The Semantics of Women’s Culture of Remembrance in Twentieth-Century Georgian Women’s Narratives
114 Sadiqova Konul Information on the history of Nakhchivan in the work “The Mirror of Time in the History of the Nobles”, one of the medieval Arabic-language manuscripts
115 Shatirishvili Lela Plant Components of Holy Anointing Oils in Ancient Georgian Written Sources
116 Sikharulidze Natia Intertextual Reference Points and Cultural Contexts of Artistic Flowers
117 Simonishvili Mari Towards an Understanding of New Historicism: Creative Tendencies in the Works of Givi Margvelashvili
118 Sulava Nestan For the interpretation of the icon-face of the king and the regent in Georgian "Balavariani"
119 Surmava Tamta The Cult of Queen Ketevan and the Foundations of the Principle of “Truth-Telling” in the Works of Teimuraz I
120 Tkebuchava Diana The Fate of the Megrelian Language: Past, Present, and Future (Following a Journalistic Essay by Tedo Sakhokia)
121 Tskiskarishvili Tinatini The most critically endangered language in Georgia
122 მულიანი გიორგი ფერეიდნული დიალექტის შიდადიფერენციაცია

Culturology, History of Art
123 Abakelia Nino Toward an Interdisciplinary Study of Ilia Chavchavadze’s “Lake Bazaleti”
124 Chikhladze Nino On the Artistic and Historical Significance of the Painting Layers in the Church of St. George at Gelati
125 Chkhaidze Irakli Between Two Worlds: Reconstructing the Figure of Ilia Chavchavadze in the 1980s
126 Chukovani Nino Transmitting Memory: April 9 in Generational Memory — Millennials and Generation Z
127 Gagoshidze Giorgi The Evidence of the Sinai Manuscript N/Sin.geo-50 concerning the Assyrian Fathers Ezderios and Theodosios and the Monasteries at Samtavisi and Rekha
128 Gunia Dea Medieval Monuments of the Paravani Lake Basin and Prospects for Their Development
129 Gvelesiani Mariam Signet Ring of Aspavruk the Pitiakhsh: Portrait and Insignia
130 Kavtaradze Marina An Episode from the History of the Tbilisi State Conservatory (Two Concepts of Two Conservatories)
131 Khundadze Nino From Enki’s Vase to the Pixel: The Cosmogony of Primordial Darkness. The Evolution of a Symbol from Sumerian Myth to Christian Mysticism, Modernist Abstraction, and Pixel Art
132 Kraveishvili Giorgi Vocal and Instrumental Polyphony in the North Caucasus, Hereti, Fereydan and Georgia of Turkey- Past, Present and Future.
133 Laghidze Nino Giorgi (Gogi) Chakhava's Social Modernist Architecture Abroad
134 Letodiani Ana War and Peace in The Knight in the Panther’s Skin: Saint Augustine’s Concept of the Two Cities and the Metaphysical Order
135 Pataridze Nino The Medieval Settlement of Paravani
136 Sanadiradze Nini The Polish Press as an Alternative Archive of Georgian Statehood and a Transnational Space of Memory (1870–1921)
137 Sharikadze, Nana Mikhail Vorontsov: The Mythologization of a Historical Figure and Imperial Memory in 19th-Century Georgia
138 Talakvadze Tea The Narrative of Silence in Transitional Literature of the 1990s
139 Tchanturidze Salome The Democratic Republic of Georgia in Soviet Media Discourse
140 Tevdorashvili Tatia On Lesser-Known Examples of Printed Graphic Art from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy
141 Lokhishvili Valeriani The August War: Trauma, Memory, and the Restructuring of National Identity
142 Nozadze Mariam Disruptions of Biographical Continuity in Georgia: Identity, Social Memory, and Transgenerational Experience
143 Rodonaia Nino Ilia Chavchavadze “On the Welfare of Nations”
144 Tsopurashvili Tamar Aristotelianism in Georgia: The Philosophical Legacy of Anton I and the Question of Its Classification
145 Zakaradze Lali New Georgian University, Research Archive of Caucasian Philosophy and Theology / Shota Rustaveli State University of Batumi, Georgia

International Affairs, Geopolitics
146 Batsikadze Giorgi Three Stages of Relations between Georgia and the North Caucasus, 1917–1921
147 Chapichadze Khatuna Western Peace: The Main Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Solution for the South Caucasus?
148 Harutyunyan Arevik Small-State Security after 2020: Armenia and Georgia between Regional Powers, Connectivity, and Strategic Autonomy
149 Kakhidze Emzar New Contours of European Enlargement: Anatolian-Caucasian Package
150 Kartvelishvili Nino Brain Drain as a Geopolitical Challenge: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Stimulating the Outflow of Skilled Professionals and Weakening National Potential
151 Kebadze Madona Historical Paradigms of Georgia’s Political Identity in the Caucasian Context
152 Matsaberidze Malkhaz Ivane Javakhishvili and the Fundamental Principles of Georgia’s North Caucasus Policy
153 Nodia Irakli The Battle of Sarikamish and Georgians According to British Press Materials
154 Peradze Grigol King Heraclius II of Kartli-Kakheti and the Armenian Liberation Movement in the Second Half of the 18th Century
155 Sidamonidze Davit Digital History of Rural Development and Environmental Governance in the Georgian Regions: Between Policy and Practice
156 Tsereteli Ivane The President in the Political Discourse of Presidents: Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Eduard Shevardnadze, and Mikheil Saakashvili

Digital Kartvelology
157 Davitashvili Ana Historiography of Georgian Archaeology: Researching Scholarly Heritage and Enriching the Digital Archive
158 Karamauli Mariam From Palimpsest to Digital Text: Processing the Codex Sinaiticus Zosimi Rescriptus with eScriptorium
159 Lemonjava Givi Digital Ecosystems in Georgia’s Economy

Other
160 Baloyan Varduhi European Children’s Literature in Tiflis and Alexandropol Print Culture
161 Chikvaidze Tsira The University of Georgia, Professor, Head of the Department of History. Tbilisi, Georgia
162 Dumbadze, Izolda The Functional Transformation of Viticulture and Winemaking in Adjara (16th–19th Centuries) According to Archaeological and Written Sources
163 Guntsadze Manuchar The Development of Georgian Studies at the Bodleian Library
164 Kokrashvili Khatuna Church Press and Public Education in Georgia: Communication Models (Second Half of the 19th Century – Beginning of the 20th Century)
165 Phiphia Kakhaber From Trapezus to Pityus: Representation of Rome’s Regional Defensive Network and Historiographical Discourse
166 Sarajishvili, Nikoloz Restoring the Nation’s Memory: How May 26 Returned to Georgian Public Life (1987–1991)
167 Sekhniashvili Elguja The Batumi Question in Georgian–Turkish Relations (1918–1921)
168 Shermazanashvili Mariam The Phenomenon of Georgian Valide Sultans: Political Influence and Charitable-Architectural Legacy in the Ottoman Empire of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
169 Tchintcharauli Mariam Traditional Religious Monuments, Sanctuaries, and Shrines in Ertso-Tianeti

Theology, Philosophy

170 Chkhaberidze Nari The Relationship Between Time and History in Contemporary Orthodox Thought According to John Zizioulas
171 Goginashvili Tornike The Commentary on Peri Hermeneias Translated from Armenian into Georgian by Nikoloz Kizikeli and Its Comparative Analysis with the Commentaries of Thomas Aquinas
172 Lomadze Ana The Georgian Translation of Hovhannes Vorotnetsi’s Philosophical Text: A Case Study of Close Georgian-Armenian Intellectual Relations
173 Mashava Besik Arabic-Speaking Christian Thought in the Caucasus: The Reception of Theodore Abū Qurrah’s Intellectual Legacy in Georgian and Armenian Intellectual Spaces
174 Onikashvili Beka An Exegetical and Textual Analysis of the Identity of Crispus and Sosthenes (Acts 18:8; 18:17)

ისტორია
175 Akopov Arkadi The District of Khotorjur: Historical and Geographical Observations
176 Aronishidze Nodar The Hall Church of Zendidi in the Context of Rectangular-Sanctuary Churches (An Architectural Analysis of the Monument and an Attempt at Dating)
177 Chikvaidze Tsira The Transformation of United States Educational Policy During the Presidency of Donald Trump
178 Chumburidze Dodo Towards an Assessment of the Ideological and Methodological Aspects of Dimitri Kipiani’s Historical Thought
179 Elena Diakova Dmitry Gordeev - Georgian researcher from Kharkov
180 Gelashvili Nana The Anti-Iranian Rebellions of Kakheti in 1521 and 1524 and their Consequences
181 Gogonaia Irina Plants in Georgian Manuscripts: The Preparation of Plant-Based Oils and Cultural Practices (on the Example of Karabadin S 1122b)
182 Harutyunyan Anush From Imperial Categories to Soviet Classification: The 1921 Agricultural Census as a Statistical and Ethnographic Source
183 Hayrapetyan Armen The Eastern Policy of the Byzantine Empire in the South Caucasus during the 10th–11th Centuries (According to Armenian Sources)
184 Javakhia Bezhan The Phenomenon of the Holy King and the Legitimization of Power in the Middle Ages
185 Kamadadze Kakhaber Khikhani fortress - the family residence of the Abuserisdzes
186 Ketsbaia, Tamari The Transformation of Civic Organizing in the South Caucasus: The Soviet Rupture and Post-Soviet Development Trajectories in a Historical Perspective
187 Kistauri Gela Issues in the Ethnohistory of the Ghudi Gorge
188 MARGARYAN Gor Projecting the Mongol Conquest onto the Russian Context: Russian Imperial and Soviet Influence on the Armenian Historiography of the Mongol–Tatar Period
189 Mamoulia Georges Unknown Pages in the History of the Georgian National Liberation Movement during the Crimean War of 1853–1856
190 Martirosyan Arman Awakening the “Tamed” Spirit and Lost Grandeur of a Nation: British Travelers’ Assessment of Russian/Internal Colonization in the South Caucasus in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
191 Menteshashvili Ivane Napoleon and His System of Government
192 Meshvelishvili, Tea Georgia on Early Twentieth-Century Postcards: The Collection of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Library
193 Neufville Camille Creating an Imperial Tea Industry in the Caucasus : The Transnational Past and Soviet Afterlives of a Colonial Project (1840s-1940s)
194 Pipia Natia Colchian and Iberian Women Outside Georgia in Classical Antiquity
195 Puturidze Marine For the Problem of Social Stratification of the Middle Bronze Age Trialeti Culture
196 Simashvili Tengiz Anti-Religious Policy in Soviet Georgia in the 1920s (Based on Archival Materials)
197 Tchkoidze Eka Between Translation and Interpretation: The Russo–Ottoman War (1828–1829) in the Georgian and Russian Issues of Tiflis Vedomosti
198 Tinikashvili David A Silence That Speaks: Orthodox Georgia and Rome
199 Tiphaine GINGELWEIN Turning Soviet Ruins into Sports Halls: Managing Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Georgia through Sport
200 Tsertsvadze Maia The Royal House of Kartli-Kakheti in the Conspiracy of 1832