საქართველოს ისტორიულ-ეთნოგრაფიული მხარეების სამეურნეო-ეკონომიკური კავშირები
Loading...
Date
2016
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
Each ethnographic region of Georgia was mainly one economic unit. Some
historical-ethnographic/geographic regions were distinctly lowland, some –
highland, some others – upland (foothills). Representatives of one ethnographic
group of Georgia had more crops; others had products of vinegrowing, fruits,
products of cattlebreeding and sheepbreeding. Therefore, ethnographic groups
of Georgia filled their deficit of agricultural products by economic relations
with one another. Ivane Javakhishvili considered this fact to be the basis for a
settlement area of Georgians, unity and integrity of the country and that political
unity, statehood, first of all, was determined by natural-geographic, landscape
and climatic and, proceeding from this, economic diversity.
The present work presents historical data and ethnographic materials
proving economic relations historically existing between different historicalethnographic
regions of Georgia. From the concrete facts of economic ties
between the different historical-ethnographic units of Georgia we can name:
outside work of the highlanders; use of lowland pastures by highland shephards
and vice versa; trade relations between different regions, etc. Despite the fact
that the historical-ethnographic units of South Georgia from the end of the 16th
century turned to be within the Ottoman Empire, the economic relations
established in the depth of history were not broken. The regions, politically
separated from Georgia, brought agricultural products, food products, especially
bread, to Tbilisi and Gori for sale. Here, cattle and sheep from entire Georgia
gathered on the spring pastures. In the late Middle Ages the population of the
mentioned region did not suspend economic ties with the population of not only
East, but of West Georgia as well. The facts are stressed that the higlanders
brough to the lowland not only cattle and sheep to the winter pastures, but they
also were given lands there (vineyards) into ownership.
All the historical-ethnographic groups of Georgia were engaged in trade
relations. The Georgian people represent one economic system. Ivane Javakhishvili
saw the basis of political unity of Georgians just in close economic relations
between the different historical-ethnographic regions.
Description
https://geohistory.humanities.tsu.ge/ge/procedings/83-shromebi/168-shromebi-shota-meskhia-100.html
Keywords
სვანები, მთიელები, აჭარლები, ეთნოგრაფია
Citation
ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის საქართველოს ისტორიის ინსტიტუტის შრომები, სპეციალური გამოშვება შოთა მესხია - 100, თბილისი, 2016, გვ. 392-421 / Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Institute of Georgian History Proceedings, Special Issue Shota Meskhia - 100, Tbilisi, 2016, pp. 392-421