THIS IS BATUMI! A Short Cultural Travel Guide to Georgia's Vibrant "Pearl of the Black Sea"
Batumi's name is derived from the ancient Greek phrase for "deep harbour". Now every powerful empire likes to get its hands on deep harbours - and over period of more than 2000 years Batumi has been seen many empires pass through - Greek, Roman, Ottoman, Russian, British and Soviet. Quite the list. Indeed the Ottoman Empire clung onto the ...