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Historic and New Silk Road and perspectives for European Integration of Georgia

Historic and New Silk Road and perspectives for European Integration of Georgia By: Nika Chitadze        Director of the Center for International Studies        Professor of the International Black Sea University       President of the George C. Marshall Center Alumni Union, Georgia – International and Security        Research Center Introduction Georgia is a small country on the crossroads of Europe and Asia. At the same time, together with the economic benefits for the country, which had and has its important geopolitical place between different civilizations, there were frequent confrontations for the gaining control over Georgia and Caucasus Region due to the fact, that modern territory of Georgia was located on one of the branch of the Great Silk Road. Historic Silk Road was functioning since 8-7-th Centuries B.C. till the middle of 15-th Century. After the collapse of Constantinople in 1453, the interregional Silk Road lost its function, and Georgia was