Bedi Kartlisa. Revue de Kartvélologie was an international journal specialized in the Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 studies (Kartvelology

Kartvelian studies

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) and published in Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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, from 1948 to 1984. It derived its name from the poem Bedi kartlisa (ბედი ქართლისა; "The Destiny of Georgia") by the 19th-century Georgian Romanticist

Romanticism

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 poet Nikoloz Baratashvili

Nikoloz Baratashvili

Nik'oloz Baratashvili was a Georgian poet, one of the first Georgians to marry a modern nationalism with European Romanticism and to introduce "Europeanism" into Georgian literature...

.

Founded by the Georgian émigrés from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 – Kalistrate (1901-1986) and Nino Salia

Nino Salia

Nino Salia née Kurtsikashvili was a Georgian émigré historian and philologist active in France, and the wife of the historian Kalistrat Salia....

 (1898-1992) – the journal was published exclusively in Georgian

Georgian language

Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...

 until 1957 when it became multilingual in French

French language

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, English

English language

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, and German

German language

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. Sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences

French Academy of Sciences

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 and edited by the Georgian historian Kalistrate Salia, the journal played a crucial role in the development of Georgian Studies in Europe

Europe

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. Several leading international experts as well as scholars from Georgia, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

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, and North Caucasus

North Caucasus

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 collaborated with it and contributed articles on the history, archaeology, ethnology, and culture of Georgia and the Caucasus

Caucasus

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 region. It was succeeded by an annual Revue des études géorgiennes et caucasiennes (ISSN 0373-1537) founded in 1985 by Georges Dumézil

Georges Dumézil

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 and Georges Charachidzé.

The annual Georgica (ISSN 0232-4490) covers the similar range of materials.