Kartvelophile
The British hard-rock legend Ian Gillan and his wife Bron, dressed in Georgian national costumes, in Tbilisi during Gillan's 1990 visit to the Soviet Union.
A Kartvelophile (Georgian: ქართველოფილი) is a person who is fond of, admires and/or loves Georgian culture, Georgian history, Georgian language, Georgian cuisine, Georgian people and/or Georgia in general, or even exhibits Georgian nationalism in spite of not being an ethnic Georgian. Such love of Georgia and everything Georgian is called "Kartvelophilia". Its opposite is Kartvelophobia.
Typical interests of Kartvelophiles
Georgian wine, Georgian cuisine, Georgian language, Georgian scripts, Georgian calligraphy
Notable Kartvelophiles
- Jean Chardin
- Alexandre Dumas
- Mihály Zichy
- Heinrich Böll
- Marjory Wardrop
- Oliver Wardrop
- Marie-Félicité Brosset
- Michael McFaul[1]
- Federico Fellini
- Francis Ford Coppola[2]
- Anastasia Zavorotnyuk[3]
- Victoria Lopyreva[4]
- Eldar Ryazanov[5]
- Hugo Huppert
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