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- 3. Byzantine empress and wife of emperor Justinian (500-548)
- 4. Pontic people, ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people, migrated during 9th-8th centuries BC from Central Asia to Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine & Russia
- 5. a state ruled by a prince
- 7. Peninsula in SE Europe, between Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean and Black Sea
- 13. "Caesar" in Russian language, Emperor
- 14. devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure
- 17. original people who took over modern Hungary in the 900s
- 20. king of Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125. He is considered to be the greatest and most successful Georgian ruler in history and an original architect of Georgian Golden Age
- 22. (River) longest river in Europe, in Russia
- 23. to absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group
- 24. ethnic group of people from northeastern Europe, spread throughout region after 500AD
- 26. (sea) surrounded by modern-day Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan; largest inland body of water in the world by area
- 27. (Cathedral) Georgia's largest church
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- 1. Georgian dumplings
- 2. 2nd longest mountain system in Europe, passes through 7 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, & Ukraine
- 6. (1440-1505) A.K.A. Ivan the Great, regarded as one of the most brutal and tyrannical rulers in history, but also as a visionary and reformer who transformed Russia into a powerful, centralized state
- 8. (River) 2nd-longest river in Europe; flows from Germany to Black Sea
- 9. (Empire: 395-1453) Eastern Roman Empire, outlived western Roman Empire into Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, capital was Constantinople
- 10. forest in cold, subarctic region; northern Hemisphere; lies between the tundra & and temperate forests (Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia)
- 11. art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials
- 12. Byzantine emperor (482–565), noted for his administrative reorganization of the imperial government
- 15. orignal name of Georgia
- 16. ("Holy Wisdom") historic building in Istanbul, Turkey; masterpiece of Byzantine architecture originally built as a cathedral in 4th century; since converted into a mosque (1453)
- 18. Queen of Georgia (1184-1213), presiding over apex of Georgian Golden Age
- 19. (mountains) form a natural divide between Europe and Asia
- 21. nomadic people, lived in Central Asia / Caucasus / E. Europe (300s-500s AD). Destroyed much of Rome & Europe
- 25. (sea) bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine
- 28. early medieval Eastern European people; originally Norsemen. Modern countries of Ukraine, Russia, etc...
