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Grigol Of Kakheti
Grigol ( ka, გრიგოლი) (died 827) was a Prince and Chorepiscopus of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 786 to 827. He seized control of Kakheti, Kukheti, and Gardabani following the demise of the Kakhetian branch of the Chosroid dynasty of Iberia during the Arab wars of conquest of the Caucasus. He adopted the title of "'' Chorepiscopus of Kakheti''" and, aided by the Tsanars, Mtiuletians, and the Arab emir of Tiflis, invaded Inner Iberia (Shida Kartli Shida Kartli ( ka, შიდა ქართლი, , ; "Inner Kartli") is a landlocked administrative region (''Mkhare'') in eastern Georgia. It comprises a central part of the historical-geographic province of Shida Kartli. With an area of , S ...), but was repulsed by Ashot I Kuropalates, a prince of the resurgent Bagratid dynasty, and Theodosius II of Abkhazia, east of the Ksani river. He was succeeded by Vache Kvabulidze as chorepiscopus of Kakheti. Bibliography * Toumanoff, Cyrille (1976, Rome). ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Monarchs Of Kakheti And Hereti
Princes of Kakheti The Chosroids *–637 – Adarnase I, also prince of Iberia since 627. *637–650 – Stephen I, also prince of Iberia *650–684 – Adarnase II, prince of Iberia *685–736 – Stephen II *736–741 – Mirian *736–786 – Archil “the Martyr” *786–790 – Ioanne *786–807 – Juansher Chorbishops *786–827 – Grigol *827–839 – Vache Kvabulidze *839–861 – Samuel, Donauri *861–881 – Gabriel, Donauri * 881–893 – Padla I Arevmaneli *893–918 – Kvirike I *918–929 – Padla II *929–976 – Kvirike II *976–1010 – David *1010–1014 – Annexation by the Kingdom of Georgia *1014–1029 – Kvirike III *1029–1039 – Annexation by the Kingdom of Georgia Kings of Hereti * Grigol Hamam (893–897) * Adarnase (897–943) * Ishkhanik (943–951) *John (c. 965-995) * Queen Dinar (c. 1010s) Kings of Kakheti and Hereti *1039–1058 – Gagik *1058–1084 – Aghsartan I *1084–1102 – Kvirike IV *1102 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsanars
Tsanars were a Caucasian people who are mentioned in Arabic texts of the eight-to-tenth centuries AD. They originally lived near Darial Gorge north of Tbilisi but expanded to Kakheti. In the ninth and tenth centuries, Tsanars migrated to regions near Shakki around passes connecting Kakheti with Dagestan. Nomenclature Pliny the Elder in first century AD named Tsanars ''Sanaroi'' (). The Armenian name ''Tsanar(k')'' (Ծանար(ք)) is found in the seventh-century work Ashkharhatsuyts, according to which, the Alans called Tsanars ''Tselkan''. The same name is found in the tenth-century Georgian chronicle ''Conversion of Kartli'' which mentions the Tselkans, Pkhovelians, Mtiulians and Tchartalians (inhabitants of Chartalis-Khevi River, a tributary of the Aragvi). In the tenth-century Arabic work ''Hudud al-'Alam'', Tsanars are named ''Ṣanār'' (). The name may be present in the ethnonymy and toponymy of the Central Caucasus. According to German scientist Julius Klaproth, the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
827 Deaths
__FORCETOC__ Year 827 ( DCCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * June 14 – Euphemius, exiled Byzantine admiral, asks for the help of North African Arabs, to retake Sicily and Malta from the Byzantines. Emir Ziyadat Allah I of Ifriqiya promises to return the islands to Euphemius, in exchange for a yearly tribute, and sends an Arab Muslim expeditionary force of 10,000 men under the 70-year-old Asad ibn al-Furat, which lands at Mazara del Vallo in Sicily. * Fall – Siege of Syracuse: Muslim forces under Asad ibn al-Furat, in support of the rebel Byzantine army, besiege Syracuse, Sicily. Europe * Summer – Omurtag, ruler ('' khan'') of the Bulgarian Empire, launches an attack to the West, and penetrates into Pannonia. He expels the local chiefs, and installs Bulgar governors over the Slavic tribes to control them. Omurtag conquers the cities of Beograd, Braničevo, Sirmium, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juansher Of Kakheti
Prince Juansher II ( ka, ჯუანშერ II) was a Georgian prince of royal Chosroid dynasty. Prince of Kakheti in 786-807.მ.ლორთქიფანიძე, რ.მეტრეველი, საქართველოს მეფეები, თბილისი, 2007 He was a son of Prince Archil of Kakheti Prince Archil the Martyr ( ka, არჩილი) was an 8th-century Georgian Orthodox Christian royal prince of the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti. Life Archilʼs biography is related in the medieval corpus of Georgian chronicles known as T .... Juansher II married in 790 Princess Latavri of Tao-Klarjeti, daughter of Adarnase I of Tao-Klarjeti. The couple remained childless after the death of Juansher in 807. Juansher received the title of Prince of Iberia which was recognized by his brother-in-law Ashot I of Iberia. References {{reflist 8th-century monarchs in Europe Princes of Kakheti 8th-century people from Georgia (country) 8th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vakhushti
Vakhushti ( ka, ვახუშტი; 1696 – 1757) was a Georgian royal prince ('' batonishvili''), geographer, historian and cartographer. His principal historical and geographic works, '' Description of the Kingdom of Georgia'' and the ''Geographical Atlas'', were inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013. Life Born as a royal bastard, son of King Vakhtang VI of Kartli (ruled 1716–24), he was born in Tbilisi, 1696. Educated by the Garsevanishvili brothers and a Roman Catholic mission, he was fluent in Greek, Latin, French, Turkish, Russian and Armenian. His name Vakhushti derives from Old Iranian ''vahišta-'' ("paradise", superlative of ''veh'' "good", i.e., "superb, excellent"). Its equivalent in Middle Persian is ''wahišt'' and in New Persian ''behešt''. In 1719 and 1720, he participated in two successive campaigns against the rebel duke (''eristavi'') Shanshe of the Ksani. From August to November 1722, he served as a governor of the kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Toumanoff
Cyril Leo Toumanoff ( ka, კირილ თუმანოვი; ; 10 October 1913 – 4 February 1997) was a Georgian-American historian, and academic genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Byzantine Empire. Born in the Russian Empire into a princely family, Toumanoff escaped to the United States after the Russian Revolution. His works have significantly influenced the Western scholarship of the medieval Caucasus. Robert H. Hewsen. "In Memoriam: Cyril Toumanoff." ''Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies''. Vol. 8, 1995, 5–7. Family Cyril Toumanoff was born on 10 October 1913 in Saint Petersburg, the son of Prince Leo Tumanov, a military officer of the Russian Imperial army. His father, who was born in Yerevan, was descended from the Armeno-Georgian princely family of Tumanishvili (Russified to Tumanov)Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), ''Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts and Eurasian Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ksani
The Ksani (, , ''Ĉysandon'') is a river in central Georgia, which rises on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in South Ossetia and flows into the Kura (''Mtkvari''). It is a left tributary of the Kura. The Ksani is long, and has a drainage basin of . National Statistics Office of Georgia, Tbilisi, 2020, p. 12. ''Ksani'' (both the river and the name) is often associated with the Georgian Ksani fortress which lies near the confluence of the Ksani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodosius II Of Abkhazia
Theodosius II ( ka, თეოდოს II) was King of the Abkhazia from circa 828 to 855. He was the son and successor of Leon II of the Anchabadze dynasty. Life Theodosius II supported his relative Ashot I of Iberia, ruler of Tao-Klarjeti, against Principality of Kakheti and its ally Arab emir of Tiflis, that invaded Inner Iberia (Shida Kartli), as a result Kakhetians were pushed from central Iberian lands to east of the Ksani River. In 837, Byzantine Emperor Theophilos sent ''patrikios'' Bardas together with the general Theophobos in a campaign against the Abkhazians, but the Byzantines were defeated... Theodosius II died without heir and he was succeeded by his younger brother Demetrius II of Abkhazia, who disputed the throne for many years. Genealogy References Sources * Marie-Félicité Brosset Marie-Félicité Brosset (24 January 1802 – 3 September 1880) was a French historian and scholar who worked mostly in the Russian Empire. He specialized in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagrationi Dynasty
The Bagrationi dynasty (; ) is a royal family, royal dynasty which reigned in Georgia (country), Georgia from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century, being among the oldest extant Christianity, Christian ruling dynasties in the world. In modern usage, the name of the dynasty is sometimes Hellenization, Hellenized and referred to as the Georgian Bagratids, also known in English as the Bagrations. The #Origins, origins of the dynasty are disputed. The early Georgian Bagratids gained the Principality of Iberia through Royal intermarriage, dynastic marriage after succeeding the Chosroid dynasty at the end of the 8th century. In 888 Adarnase IV of Iberia restored the Georgian monarchy; various Unification of the Georgian realm, native polities then united into the Kingdom of Georgia, which prospered from the 11th to the 13th century. This period of time, particularly the reigns of David IV of Georgia, David IV the Builder (1089–1125) and of his great-granddaughter Tamar of Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashot I Of Iberia
Ashot I the Great ( ka, აშოტ I დიდი ) (died 826/830) was a presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia), first of the Bagratid family to have attained to this office c. 813. From his base in Tao-Klarjeti, he fought to enlarge the Bagratid territories and sought the Byzantine protectorate against the Arab Muslim encroachment until being murdered c. 826. Ashot is also known as Ashot I Kouropalates for the Byzantine title of that he bore. A patron of Christian culture and a friend of the church, he has been canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church. Biography Ashot was the son of the Iberian nobleman Adarnase who had founded the Bagratoni hereditary fiefdom in Tao-Klarjeti (now northeast Turkey) and bequeathed to his son extensive possessions acquired upon the extinction of his Guaramid and Chosroid cousins. Ashot initially failed to gain a foothold in central Iberia ( Shida Kartli), his efforts being dashed by the Arab control of Tiflis. Ashot established himse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shida Kartli
Shida Kartli ( ka, შიდა ქართლი, , ; "Inner Kartli") is a landlocked administrative region (''Mkhare'') in eastern Georgia. It comprises a central part of the historical-geographic province of Shida Kartli. With an area of , Shida Kartli is the 8th largest Georgian region by land area. With 284,081 inhabitants, it is Georgia's seventh-most-populous region. Shida Kartli's capital and largest city, Gori, is the 5th largest city in Georgia. The region is bordered by Russia to the north, Georgian regions of Mtskheta-Mtianeti to the east, Kvemo Kartli to the south, Samtskhe-Javakheti to the southwest, Imereti to the west, and Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti to the northwest. It consists of the following municipalities: Gori, Kaspi, Kareli, Java, Khashuri. The northern part of the region, namely Java, and northern territories of Kareli and Gori municipalities (total area of 1,393 km2), have been controlled by the authorities of the self-proclaimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emirate Of Tbilisi
The Emirate of Tbilisi ( ka, თბილისის საამირო ', ') was a Islam, Muslim emirate in Transcaucasia. The Emirs of Tbilisi ruled over the parts of today's eastern Georgia (country), Georgia from their base in the city of Tbilisi, from 736 to 1080 (nominally to 1122). Established by the Arabs during their rule of Georgian lands, the emirate was an important outpost of the Muslim rule in the Caucasus until Siege of Tbilisi (1122), recaptured by the Georgians under King David IV of Georgia, David IV in 1122. History The Arabs first appeared in Georgia, namely in Kartli (Principality of Iberia, Iberia) in 645. It was not, however, until 735 that they succeeded in establishing firm control over a large portion of the country. In that year, Marwan II Marwan ibn Muhammad's invasion of Georgia, took hold of Tbilisi and much of the neighbouring lands and installed there an Arab emir, who was to be confirmed by the Caliph or, occasionally, by the ''ostikan'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
