The Democratic Republic of Georgia existed from May 1918 to February 1921 and was
the first modern establishment of a Republic of Georgia.
The DRG was created after the
collapse of the Russian
Empire that
began with the Russian Revolution of 1917. Its
established borders were with the Kuban People's Republic and the Mountainous Republic of
the Northern Caucasus in the
north, the Ottoman Empire and the First Republic of Armenia in the south, and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in the southeast. It had a total land area
of roughly 107,600 km², and a population of 2.5 million.
The republic's capital was Tbilisi, and
its state language was Georgian.
Proclaimed on May 26, 1918, on the break-up of the Transcaucasian Federation, it
was led by the Georgian Social Democratic
Party (Menshevik).
Facing permanent internal and external problems, the young state was unable to
withstand invasion by the Russian
SFSR Red
Armies, and collapsed between February and March 1921 to become a Soviet
republic.
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