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Charter of King George IV. George was the son of Queen Tamar of Georgia and her consort David Soslan, George was declared as a coregent by his mother in 1207. According to the Georgian chronicles the second name Lasha meant 'illuminator of the world' in the language of Apsar (cf. a-lasha meaning light in Abkhaz language).
Bagrat IV (Georgian: ბაგრატ IV; 1018 – 24 November 1072), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1027 to 1072. [1] During his long and eventful reign, Bagrat sought to repress the great nobility and to secure Georgia's sovereignty from the Byzantine and Seljuk Empires.
Demetrius I (Georgian: დემეტრე I, romanized: demet're I) (c. 1093 – 1156), from the Bagrationi dynasty, was King of Georgia from 1125 to 1156. He is also known as a poet . He was King of Georgian kingdom two times, first in 1125 to 1154 and second in 1155 before his death in 1156.
George was born in 998 or, according to a later version of the Georgian chronicles, 1002, to King Bagrat III, [1] who had already begun his work of unification of Georgian lands. From this, George is the adopted grandson of the great David III the Kuropalates , [ 2 ] true architect of Georgian unification, but also biologically of Gurgen of ...
According to the modern genealogists such as Ioseb Bichikashvili and Cyril Toumanoff, she was named Rusudan and married into the family of Alan kings, which is claimed by the 18th-century Georgian author Prince Vakhushti to have been a collateral branch of the Georgian Bagratids through their descent from Demetrius, son of King George I of ...
The question of the contemporaneous name of the realm between 1259 and the early 1400s remains without a concrete answer because from the end of the 15th century, Western Georgia extended from the modern-day city of Sochi in the north [8] to Trebizond in the south and the Likhi Range in the east.
As of 2001, 54 per cent of the population lived below the national poverty line but by 2006 poverty decreased to 34 per cent and by 2015 to 10.1 per cent. [287] In 2015, the average monthly income of a household was 1,022.3₾ (about $426). [288] 2015 calculations place Georgia's nominal GDP at US$13.98 billion. [289]
The Georgians, or Kartvelians [d] (/ k ɑːr t ˈ v ɛ l i ə n z /; Georgian: ქართველები, romanized: kartvelebi, pronounced [kʰaɾtʰʷelebi]), are a nation and Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms.