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The centralizing power of the crown started to weaken in the 14th century, and even though the tide turned back under King George V the Brilliant, [9] the reunification turned out to be short-lived; the unified realm would evaporate after invasions by the Mongols and Timur that would result in its total collapse in the 15th century. [10]
[9] [10] [11] Innocent III had managed to secure the participation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the Crusade. [12] In the late 1210s, according to the Georgian chronicles, George began making preparations for a campaign in the Holy Land to support the Franks. [13] A miniature depicting an attack of the Georgian king George IV Lasha on Mongols in ...
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 ...
Early states in present-day Georgia, c. 600 to 150 BC. Iberia (Georgian: იბერია, Latin: Iberia and Greek: Ἰβηρία), also known as Iveria (Georgian: ივერია), was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the Georgian kingdom of Kartli [1] (4th century BC – 5th century AD), corresponding roughly to east and south present-day Georgia.
Some Georgian historians also note the help provided by Georgian agents accompanying Princess Kata's retinue in the seizure of power by John II Komnenos in 1118. [ 64 ] [ 61 ] As a result, from the beginning of John II's reign, relations between the two countries improved considerably and the Georgian chronicles refer to the two monarchs as ...
The decline in international trade, the disappearance of the kingdom's cultural allies and the growing threats in the Caucasus only sow poverty and desolation across Georgia, providing an ideal context for nobles wishing to gain more power from the central royal government.
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.
The Kingdom of Georgia brought about the Georgian Golden Age, which describes a historical period in the High Middle Ages, spanning from roughly the late 11th to 13th centuries, when the kingdom reached the zenith of its power and development. The period saw the flourishing of medieval Georgian architecture, painting and poetry, which was ...