The existence of allied countries and relations with them play a big part in the state strength of Georgia. Communication with these countries also affects their economical and cultural development.
Modern contacts cannot exist without considering preceding stages of historical processes. Applying historical experience and knowledge to practice has a great importance.

Lower Kartli is a frontier region in southeastern Georgia. Its population is distinguished by ethnic heterogeneity, the result of its geopolitical situation and centuries of mass migration. The residents of Lower Kartli include Georgians, Armenians, Azeri Turks, Russians, Greeks and others.

The career of any empire, it goes without saying, represents a process of interethnic interaction. In order to grasp the dynamic aspects of this phenomenon, it is first of all necessary to understand the colonizing ethnic group's self-image, and how this is generalized to the globalizing imagination of the empire's role. The creation of an empire of necessity implies the formation of a "private universe" and the subordination of others to this universe on the basis of self-evident principles of "justification". Beyond these idealized motives ("justification") on the part of the empire's leadership, there often occurs the neglect of certain principles of utility and security.