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BC MIA Academy
BC MIA Academy ( ka, საკალათბურთო კლუბი შსს აკადემია) is a professional basketball club based in Tbilisi, that plays in the Georgian Super Liga, Georgian Superliga. The club is affiliated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Georgia), Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and plays its home games in the Tbilisi Sports Palace. History BC MIA Academy was founded in 2008, intending to provide MIA employees with an opportunity to play basketball at a professional level. However, funding was gradually increased during the following seasons, allowing the club to acquire more experienced Georgian players, as well as foreign imports, and to set themselves more ambitious targets. Success failed to materialise initially, with the club failing to advance beyond the quarterfinal stage in the championship play-offs, or to win any other domestic tournaments until the 2012/2013 season. In that season, however, MIA Academy managed to win the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgian Super Liga
The Georgian Basketball Super League ( ka, საკალათბურთო სუპერლიგა, Sakalatburto Superliga), also known as the Georgian Top League, is the highest professional basketball league in Georgia (country), Georgia. The first season was played in 1991, and was won by BC Dinamo Tbilisi, Dinamo Tbilisi. The 1990s were dominated by BC Vita Tbilisi, who won the title a record 7 times. BC Batumi, and then Energy Invest Rustavi, dominated the following decade. More recently, the league was dominated by clubs attached to State departments, with first BC Armia Ministry of Defense (Georgia), (Ministry of Defense) establishing themselves as the country's leading club, and later BC MIA AcademyMinistry of Internal Affairs (Georgia), (Ministry of Internal Affairs) winning the title. 2013/14 was the first season when none of the country's universities were represented in the Superliga. This followed the decision by the Ministry of Education and Science (Georgia), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tbilisi Sports Palace
Tbilisi Sport Palace ( ka, თბილისის სპორტის სასახლე) is an indoor sports arena situated in Tbilisi, Georgia. The arena usually hosts basketball, handball, judo, tennis, boxing and other games and tournaments with high attendance. History Built in 1961, the arena was used primely for the basketball games of local Dinamo Tbilisi and is still the largest basketball designed arena in all of the former USSR successor states. The construction was led by architects Vladimir Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Yuri Kasradze, Temo Japaridze and designer David Kajaia. The arena was renovated in 2007 and was reopened on 22 August 2007, with management rights given to the Logic Group Ltd for a 30-year contract. This was the first phase of renovation and reconstruction, with the second phase including changing the roof of the building and installing new individual seats. Total cost of the renovation is estimated at 5 million USD. Concerts Tbilisi Sports Palac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura (Caspian Sea), Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people. Tbilisi was founded in the 5th century Anno Domini, AD by Vakhtang I of Iberia, and since then has served as the capital of various Georgian kingdoms and republics. Between 1801 and 1917, then part of the Russian Empire, Tiflis was the seat of the Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917), Caucasus Viceroyalty, governing both the North Caucasus, northern and the Transcaucasia, southern parts of the Caucasus. Because of its location on the crossroads between Europe and Asia, and its proximity to the lucrative Silk Road, throughout history Tbilisi was a point of contention among various global powers. The city's location to this day ensures its p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of , and has a population of 3.7 million people. Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, home to roughly a third of the Georgian population. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established in what is now Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. In the early 4th century, ethnic Georgians officially adopted Christianity, which contributed to the spiritual and political unification of the early Georgian states. In the Middle Ages, the unified Kingdom of Georgia emerged and reached its Golden Age during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the kingdom decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navy Blue
Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with naval white) worn by officers in the Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. When this color name, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 19th century, it was initially called ''marine blue'', but the name of the color soon changed to ''navy blue''. An early use of ''navy blue'' as a color name in English was in 1840 though the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' has a citation from 1813. Variations Indigo dye Indigo dye is the color that is called ''Añil'' (the Spanish word for "indigo dye") in the ''Guía de coloraciones'' (''Guide to colorations'') by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm. ''Indigo dye'' is the basis for all the historical navy blue colors, since in the 18th, 19th, and earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court, while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Internal Affairs (Georgia)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს შინაგან საქმეთა სამინისტრო), abbreviated MIA (''შსს''), is the highest state law enforcement agency of Georgia, the head of which (Minister) is a member of the Government. The Ministry is accountable to the Government and fulfills the tasks imposed on it by the Prime Minister. Vakhtang Gomelauri is the current Minister of Internal Affairs. The Ministry's main office is in Tbilisi. History After gaining independence on May 26, 1918 on the National Council meeting the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia was formed. Its main tasks included fighting counter-revolutionary rallies and Bolshevik propaganda, combating embezzlement of public funds, etc. On February 25, 1921, with the help of Russia, the Georgian Bolsheviks overthrew the legitimate Menshevik government of Georgia. Since this day, the independent Ministry of Internal Affairs w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgos Ketselidis
Giorgos, Yiorgos or Yorgos ( el, Γιώργος) is a common abbreviation of the given name Georgios. Notable people with the name include: Persons Giorgos * Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer * Giorgos Alkaios, pop musician and singer * Giorgos Anatolakis, Greek footballer * Giorgos Angelopoulos, Greek businessman and billionaire * Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player * Giorgos Arvanitis (born 1941), Greek cinematographer * Giorgos Balogiannis, Greek basketball player * Giorgos Bartzokas, Greek basketball coach * Giorgos Batis, Greek rebetiko musician * Giorgos Dedes, Greek footballer * Giorgos Diamantopoulos, Greek basketball player * Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (born 1952), Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament * Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer * Giorgos Economides, Cypriot footballer * Giorgos Foiros, Greek footballer and manager * Giorgos Fotakis, Greek footballer * Giorgos Gasparis, Greek basketball player * Giorgos Gavriilidis (1906–1982), Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levan Mikaberidze
Levan can refer to: Places * Levan, Berat, a village in the municipality of Berat, Berat County, Albania * Levan, Fier, a village in the municipality of Fier, Fier County, Albania * Levan, Gjirokastër, a village in the municipality of Memaliaj, Gjirokastër County, Albania * Levan, Utah * The town of Levan, Inverclyde, United Kingdom * Levan, Afghanistan People * Levan (name), Georgian masculine given name Buildings * Castle Levan, is a fortified tower house in Levan area of Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland. Others * Levan Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. * Levan polysaccharide, a homopolysaccharide which is composed of D-fructofuranosyl * A group of fructans produced by bacteria or created by breaking down other kinds of plant fructans, called levan beta 2→6 * LEVAN (Search Engine), an acronym for Learn Everything About Anything, a visual processing search engine developed by the Allen Brain Institute and the University of Washington. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragan Petričević
Dragan Petričević ( sr-cyr, Драган Петричевић; born 31 January 1969) is a Bosnian-Romanian professional basketball coach. He currently serves as a head coach for BC SCM Timișoara, SCM Timișoara of the Liga Națională (men's basketball), Liga Națională. Coaching career Petričević was a head coach for CS Universitatea Cluj-Napoca (men's basketball), U Invest Cluj-Napoca, CS Politehnica Iași (men's basketball), Politehnica Moldrom Iași, West Petrom Arad, CSU Ploiești, Asesoft Ploiești, Farul Constanța, BC SCM Timișoara, SCM Timișoara of the Liga Națională (men's basketball), Romanian Men's League. Petričević coached Étoile Sportive du Sahel (basketball), Étoile Sportive du Sahel and Club Africain (basketball), Club Africain of Tunisian Division I Basketball League and BC MIA Academy, MIA Academy of the Georgian Superliga. Women's basketball Also, coached CSM Târgoviște (basketball), CSM Târgoviște and CS Universitatea Cluj-Napoca (women's b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
