Adjara is found in the southwest corner of Georgia, it lies on the coast of the Black Sea close to the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, and is an important tourism destination.
(49) However, as mentioned earlier, Georgian-Iranian relations have wanned up in recent years and the remaining Muslims in Georgia are mostly Sunni ethnic Georgians residing in
Adjara and much smaller communities of ethnic Chechens and Avars in the northeast and east.
Unlike the triumph in
Adjara, this development indicated an overall setback and worsening relationships in the conflict zone.
Adjara, officially the Autonomous Republic of
Adjara, is an autonomous republic of Georgia.
Saakashvili's first task was to peacefully put an end to the regime in the autonomous region of
Adjara and to make it part of Georgia.
Iranian consulate will open in the city of Batumi,
Adjara Region.
This Georgia-Russia incident is not an isolated issue, there were several crises, incidents and accusations in the past, including: the 2004
Adjara crisis, the 2006 North Ossetia sabotages, the 2006 Russian ban of Moldovan and Georgian wines, the 2006 Kodori crisis, the 2006 Georgian-Russian espionage controversy and the March 2007 Georgia helicopter attack incident.
Most cases of HIV are in Tbilisi, but prevalence is increasing in the Black Sea coastal regions of
Adjara and Samegrelo (Ikram and Kaijage 2007a).
This was a long journey, so was I being taken to
Adjara?
Adjara was a small semi-autonomous breakaway state in the far west of Georgia which was governed by a Papa Doc figure named Aslan Abashidze - no friend of Shevardnadze and his regime.
The President also intervened when a church under construction in
Adjara was demolished for lack of proper building permits, ordering resumption of construction.
Though, regardless of such positive factor as Russias constructive role in peaceful resolution of crisis in the Autonomous Republic of
Adjara, we still have a number of unsettled issues.