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After deposition, was named regent for his nephew, George VI, who died as a minor. He then re-ascended as king, reuniting Georgia in 1330. A flexible and far-sighted politician, he recovered Georgia from a century-long Mongol domination, restoring the country's previous strength and Christian culture. 1330-1346 Kingdom of Georgia: Vakhtang III
The event is related with the mission of a Cappadocian woman, Saint Nino, who since 303 had preached Christianity in the Georgian kingdom of Iberia (Eastern Georgia). The religion would become a strong tie between Georgia and Rome (later Byzantium) and have a large scale impact on the state's culture and society. Iranian elements in Georgian ...
Saint Nino (sometimes St. Nune or St. Ninny; Georgian: წმინდა ნინო, romanized: ts'minda nino; Armenian: Սուրբ Նունե, romanized: Surb Nune; Greek: Ἁγία Νίνα, romanized: Hagía Nína; c. 296 – c. 338 or 340) was a woman who preached Christianity in the territory of the Kingdom of Iberia, in what is modern-day Georgia.
Her birth name was Beoun [1] and changed her name to Salome after she married Rev II of Iberia. [1] Rev II was the first son of King Mirian III of Iberia and his second wife, Queen Nana of Iberia. Mirian III ruled as King of Iberia from 284 until his death in 361. Rev II co-ruled with his father as co-king from 345 until 361.
King of Iberia r. 265–284: CHOSROID: Princess Abeshura: Mirian III King of Iberia r. 284–361: Queen consort Nana: Tiridates III King of Armenia r. 298-330: Aspacures II King of Iberia r. 363–365: Rev II King of Iberia r. 345–361: Queen consort Salome d. 361: Mihrdat III King of Iberia r. 365–380 diarch 370–378: Sauromaces II King of ...
However, Iberia succeeded in detaching itself from the Roman dominion in the last decade of the 1st century BC and emerged as a more powerful state in the 1st century AD. Pharasmanes I of Iberia (r. AD 1–58) energetically interfered in the affairs of Armenia which was then a bone of contention between Rome and Parthia and installed his ...
' King Tamar '; c. 1160 – 18 January 1213) reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age. [2] A member of the Bagrationi dynasty, her position as the first woman to rule Georgia in her own right was emphasized by the title mepe ("king"), afforded to Tamar in the medieval Georgian sources ...
BAGRATIONI of Tao-Klarjeti: Bagrat III b.≈960-d.1014 King of Abkhazia r.978–1014 King of Georgia r.1008–1014: Mariam Queen consort r.1014-c.1018: George I