Bagrat (, in

Western Armenian Western Armenian ( ) is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Eastern Armenian. It is based mainly on the Istanbul Armenian dialect, as opposed to Eastern Armenian, which is mainly based on the Yerevan Arme ...

pronounced as Pakrad, ka, ბაგრატ) is a

male Male (Planet symbols, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or Egg cell, ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot sexual repro ...

name popular in

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

. It is derived from the

Old Persian Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as (I ...

''Bagadāta'', "gift of God". The names of the Armenian Bagratuni and Georgian Bagrationi dynasties (literally, "the house of/established by Bagrat") are derived from the name.

Georgian monarchs

Bagrat I of Iberia Bagrat I ( ka, ბაგრატ I) (died 876), of the Bagratid dynasty, was a presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia) from 830 until his death. Bagrat inherited from his father Ashot I the office of presiding prince of Iberia and the Byza ...

, Georgian prince *

Bagrat I of Mukhrani Bagrat, Prince of Mukhrani ( ka, ბაგრატ I მუხრანბატონი, ''Bagrat I Mukhranbatoni''), (c. 1487 – c. 1540) was the third son of King Constantine II of Georgia, of the Bagrationi dynasty, and the founder of the Ho ...

, Georgian prince * Bagrat I of Abkhazia, Georgian king * Bagrat I of Tao, Georgian prince *

Bagrat I of Klarjeti Bagrat I ( ka, ბაგრატ I) (died 20 April 900) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and the ruler of Klarjeti from 889 until his death. There is some confusion in dating Bagrat's death. According to the 11th-ce ...

, Georgian prince * Bagrat I of Imereti, Georgian king *

Bagrat II of Iberia Bagrat II ( ka, ბაგრატ II) (c. 937–994) was a Georgia (country), Georgian prince of the Bagrationi, Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and the titular king (''Mepe (title), mepe'') of Caucasian Iberia, Iberia-Kartli from 958 until his d ...

, Georgian king *

Bagrat II of Tao Bagrat II ( ka, ბაგრატ II) (died 966) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti who ruled the Duchy of Upper Tao from 961 until his death in 966. A figure whose position within the Bagration dynasty remains unclear ...

, Georgian prince * Bagrat II of Klarjeti, Georgian prince *

Bagrat III of Georgia Bagrat III ( ka, ბაგრატ III) (c. 960 – 7 May 1014), also known as Bagrat the Unifier, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king ('' mepe'') of the Kingdom of Abkhazia from 978 on (as Bagrat II of Abkhazia) and king of the Kingdom of ...

, Georgian king *

Bagrat III of Imereti Bagrat III ( ka, ბაგრატ III) (1495-1565), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king (''mepe'') of Imereti from April 1, 1510, to 1565. He succeeded upon the death of his father, Alexander II, and faced repeated assaults from the Ottoman T ...

, Georgian king * Bagrat III of Klarjeti, Georgian prince * Bagrat IV of Imereti, Georgian king *

Bagrat IV of Georgia Bagrat IV ( ka, ბაგრატ IV; 101824 November 1072), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king ('' mepe'') of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1027 to 1072. During his long and eventful reign, Bagrat sought to repress the great nobility and to ...

, Georgian king *

Bagrat V of Georgia Bagrat V the Great (, , died 1393) of the Bagrationi dynasty, was co-king from 1355 and became king (''mepe'') of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1360 until his death in 1393. Life Bagrat was the son of David IX and his wife Sindukhtar Jaqeli. ...

, Georgian king *

Bagrat V of Imereti Bagrat V ( ka, ბაგრატ V) (1620–1681), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king (''mepe'') of Imereti, whose troubled reign in the years of 1660–61, 1663–68, 1669–78, and 1679–81, was marked by extreme instability and feudal anarc ...

, Georgian king *

Bagrat VI of Georgia Bagrat VI ( ka, ბაგრატ VI; 1439 – 1478), a representative of the Imeretian branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king ('' mepe'') of Imereti (as Bagrat II) from 1463, and a king of Georgia from 1465 until his death. Life He was ...

, Georgian king *

Bagrat VII of Kartli Bagrat (, in Western Armenian pronounced as Pakrad, ka, ბაგრატ) is a male name popular in Armenia. It is derived from the Old Persian ''Bagadāta'', "gift of God". The names of the Armenian Bagratuni and Georgian Bagrationi dynasti ...

, Georgian king

Others

Bagrat Asatryan Bagrat A. Asatryan (, born February 2, 1956), also transliterated Bagrat Asatrian or Assatrian, is an Armenian economist and the former chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia from 1994 to 1998. He is one of the architects of the modern-day Armen ...

, Armenian banker and economist *

Bagrat Galstanyan Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan (; born May 20, 1971) is an Armenian prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church who is currently serving as bishop of the Diocese of Tavush. He also served as primate of the Armenian Diocese of Canada based in Montrea ...

, Armenian theologian and a cleric of the Armenian Apostolic Church *

Bagrat Ioannisiani Bagrat Konstantinovich Ioannisiani (born in Yerevan, Armenia, died 10 December 1985 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet telescope designer of Armenian descent. He was the chief designer of the BTA-6, one of the largest telescopes in the wor ...

, Soviet telescope designer and Armenian descent *

Bagrat Oghanian Bagrat Oghanian (5 February 1981 – 18 December 2021) was an Armenian boxer best known for winning the Super Heavyweight Bronze medal at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships. Life and career As an amateur, he scored his biggest succe ...

, Armenian boxer *

Bagrat Shinkuba Bagrat Uasyl-ipa Shinkuba (12 May 1917 – 25 February 2004) was an Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician. He studied history and languages of Abkhaz, Adyghe and Ubykh people. A prolific poet, Bagrat Shinkuba published ''F ...

, Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician *

Bagrat Ulubabyan Bagrat Arshaki Ulubabyan (; December 9, 1925 – November 19, 2001) was an Armenian writer and historian, known most prominently for his work on the histories of Nagorno-Karabakh and Artsakh. Biography Early life and education Ulubabyan wa ...

, Armenian writer and historian *

Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera Prince ''Don'' Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, also Prince Bagrat Bagrationi-Mukhraneli'' and ''Prince Bagrat Bagration-Moukhransky (12 January 1949 – 20 March 2017) was a member of the Bagration dynasty which once ruled the Kingdom of Geor ...

, Prince of Georgia, Grandee of Spain *

Prince Bagrat of Georgia Bagrat ( ka, ბაგრატი) (8 May 1776 – 8 May 1841) was a Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili'') of the House of Bagrationi and an author. A son of King George XII of Georgia, Bagrat occupied important administrative posts in the ...

, son of George XII of Georgia *

Bagrat of Ravendel Bagrat (died 1116), also known as Pakrad, was an Armenian adventurer and brother of Kogh Vasil. Kogh was among a number of Armenian princes who had established small city-states in the region during the collapse of centralised Abbassid power follow ...

, Ruler of Ravendel until 1116

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