Bagrationi
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Bagrationi (or Bagratids) was a Royal dynasty of Georgia in 809-1810. Family of Georgian Bagration's was arised in South Georgia, in the ancient Georgian region of Speri (part of the Georgian Principality of Tao-Klarjeti , now territory of Turkey), from the Georgian family of Bivritiani, in the 6th century AD.
Ashot I the Great (Ashot I Kurapalate) (809-826) was the first King from this family and founder of the Royal dynasty. First King of the united Georgian Kingdom (888-1466) was Adarnase II (888-923). Greatest representatives of this dynasty were David the Builder, Tamar of Georgia and others. Last King from the dynasty of Bagrationi was a King of Imereti Solomon II (1789-1810). In 1801 by the Tsarist Russian Empire was occupied and annexed the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia), in 1810 the Kingdom of Imereti (Western Georgia).
Main sources of the history of the dynasty of Bagrationi are Georgian chronicles of the 10th-18th centuries: chronicle of Sumbat Davitis dze, "Moktsevai Kartlisai", "Tskhovreba Kartvelta Mepeta", "Matiane Kartlisa", etc.
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Kings of the united Georgian Kingdom (888-1466)
Kings of the united Georgian Kingdom were:
- Adarnase II (888-923)
- David II of Georgia (923-937)
- Bagrat I (937-945)
- Ashot IV (945-954)
- Sumbat I (954-958)
- Bagrat II (958-978)
- David III (978-1001)
- Gurgen (1001-1008)
- Bagrat III (1008-1014)
- Giorgi I (1014-1027)
- Bagrat IV (1027-1072)
- Giorgi II (1072-1089)
- David IV the Builder (1089-1125)
- Demetre I (1125-1155, 1156)
- David V (1155)
- Giorgi III (1156-1184)
- Tamar of Georgia (1184-1213)
- Giorgi IV Lasha (1213-1223)
- Rusudan (1223-1245)
- David VI Narin (1245-1293)
- David VII Ulu (1247-1270)
- Demetre II (1271-1289)
- Vakhtang II (1289-1293)
- David VIII (1293-1299, 1300-1308)
- Giorgi VI (1308-1313)
- Giorgi V (1299, 1314-1346)
- David IX (1346-1360)
- Bagrat V (1360-1393)
- Giorgi VII (1393-1407)
- Konstantine I (1407-1411)
- Alexander I the Great (1412-1442)
- Vakhtang IV (1442-1446)
- Giorgi VIII (1446-1466)
See also
Literature
- "Kartlis Tskhovreba", vol. I-IV, Tbilisi, 1955-1973 (in Georgian)
- Pavle Ingorokva. "Giorgi Merchule" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1954 (in Georgian)
- Taqaishvili E. "Georgian chronology and the beginning of the Bagratid rule in Georgia".- "Georgica", London, v.I, 1935
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Bagrationi" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagrationi, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
