







1843 the French photographerJoseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was the first person to photograph the city. Remarkably, his photographs were only discovered in the 1920s in a storeroom of his estate and then only became known eighty years later.
The city surrendered to Alexander the Great in 334 B.C. After Alexander’s death, the city fell to the kingdom of Pergamum. Eventually, Pinara became a Roman city when Pergamum was willed by its last king Attalus III to the Roman Republic in 133 B.
Did you know that Stalin was appeared on TIME magazine twice: in 1939 for signing the nonaggression pact with Nazi germany and in 1942 for leading the defense against the same Nazi German invasion.
Thus, he became the first ethnical GEORGIAN appeared on the cover of TIME magazine.