Bagrat (, in
Western Armenian
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pronounced as Pakrad, ka,
ბაგრატ) is a
male
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name popular in
Armenia
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. It is derived from the
Old Persian
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''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
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Bagrat I of Iberia, Georgian prince
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Bagrat I of Mukhrani, Georgian prince
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Bagrat I of Abkhazia, Georgian king
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Bagrat I of Tao, Georgian prince
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Bagrat I of Klarjeti, Georgian prince
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Bagrat I of Imereti, Georgian king
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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
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Bagrat II of Tao, Georgian prince
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Bagrat II of Klarjeti, Georgian prince
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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
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Bagrat III of Imereti, Georgian king
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Bagrat III of Klarjeti, Georgian prince
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Bagrat IV of Imereti, Georgian king
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Bagrat IV of Georgia, Georgian king
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Bagrat V of Georgia, Georgian king
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Bagrat V of Imereti, Georgian king
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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
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Bagrat VII of Kartli, Georgian king
Others
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Bagrat Asatryan, Armenian banker and economist
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Bagrat Galstanyan, Armenian theologian and a cleric of the Armenian Apostolic Church
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Bagrat Ioannisiani, Soviet telescope designer and Armenian descent
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Bagrat Oghanian, Armenian boxer
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Bagrat Shinkuba, Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician
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Bagrat Ulubabyan, Armenian writer and historian
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Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, Prince of Georgia, Grandee of Spain
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Prince Bagrat of Georgia, son of George XII of Georgia
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Bagrat of Ravendel, Ruler of Ravendel until 1116
See also
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Bagrati Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Dormition, or the Kutaisi Cathedral, more commonly known as Bagrati Cathedral ( ka, ბაგრატი; , or ''Bagratis tadzari''), is an 11th-century cathedral in the city of Kutaisi, in the Imereti region of Georgia. A ...
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