Dzala ertobashia

Dzala ertobashia (Georgian: ძალა ერთობაშია, pronounced [ˈdzaɫa ˈeɾtʰobaʃia], "Strength is in Unity") is the official motto of Georgia.

One day, when he was dying, he called his sons and asked them to bring arrows.

The king said: "Teach O my sons from this fact, that there is ‘strength in unity.’ If you are together, an enemy cannot do you wrong, but if you are divided, victory will be on their side."

The problem of national unity has been a perennial problem in the history of the Georgian state and the Georgian people, exemplified by the ongoing Russian occupations of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Versions of this phrase are the national mottos of Belgium, Bulgaria, and Haiti, and also formerly in the historical Traansvaal, Union of South Africa (as Ex Unitate Vires), and Malaya.