Quote Originally Posted by Ampe211 View Post
You dont understand. Lets assume that people inhabiting the region 3000 years ago are genetically and linguistically the same as today’s georgians. The states which the ancient kartvelians created cannot in any way, shape or form considered to be the antecedent of modern day Georgia. That would require a continous identity to exist from 1200 BC to modern day, which certainly does not.
Even that first premise is impossible outside of instances like uncontacted tribes of the Amazonian jungle. Where modern Georgia sits is a region much traversed by other peoples and interacted with everyone around them for that entire time.