National Library of Georgia In the digital library "Iveriel", you can find electronic versions of books, magazines, newspapers, photos and other rare editions preserved in the LEPL Ilia Chavchavadze National Library of Georgia, as well as electronic copies of important documents published in Georgia and abroad, which their owners donated to the National Library.

I N T R O d U C T I O N Georgia is situated in the central and western parts of the South Caucasus re-gion, between the Black and Caspian Seas. It is a mountainous country with three major orographic systems within its borders: the mountain systems of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus; the intermontane depressions (Colchian, Kartlian and Alaza-nian); and the South Georgian volcanic highland (Fig.1).