Georgia is a beautiful country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan. Tbilisi is the capital city of Georgia; it lies in the centre of eastern Georgia, on the banks of the Mtkvari River and in the foothills of the Trialeti mountain range. According to Georgian legends, it was founded in the 5th century by King Vakhtang Gorgasali who, while hunting, shot a falcon which fell into a warm spring and was either boiled or healed. Either way, the king was inspired to found a city on the site, and the name of the city derives from the Georgian word tbili meaning "warm".