Juansher Juansheriani ( ka, ჯუანშერ ჯუანშერიანი) (fl. c. 790–800
Toumanoff, Cyril
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(1963). ''Studies in Christian Caucasian History'', pp. 24, 25, 254. Washington DC
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: Georgetown University Press
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. or 11th century
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'') and historian, related to the royal Chosroid dynasty
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of Iberia
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* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula
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(ancient Georgia
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), whose appanage
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consisted of the lands in Inner Iberia and in Kakheti
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.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.
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, to whom a note in the text of the Queen Anne and Queen Mary codices of the ''Georgian Chronicles
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'' attributes the work "The Life of King Vakhtang Gorgasali" which covers the history of Iberia from the reign of Vakhtang I (c. 447–502/522) down to the period of Archil (c. 736–786). This attribution remains problematic, however, and some modern scholars have suggested, though controversially, that the bulk of this work was, in fact, authored by the 11th-century chronicler Leonti Mroveli
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, while the author of its untitled continuation, also ascribed to Juansher, is conventionally referred to as Pseudo-Juansher.[Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), ''Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts'', p. 240. Peeters Bvba, .][
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