Kingdom of Georgia

The Kingdom of Georgia Eurasian monarchy that was founded in circa 1008 AD. It reached its Golden Age of political together with economic strength during a reign of King David IV & Queen Tamar a Great from 11th to 13th centuries. Georgia became one of the pre-eminent nations of the Christian East and its pan-Caucasian empire and network of tributaries stretching from Eastern Europe to Anatolia and northern frontiers of Iran, while also maintaining religious possessions abroad, such as the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem and the Monastery of Iviron in Greece. It was the principal historical precursor of present-day Georgia.

Lasting for several centuries, the kingdom fell to the incursions by Timur from 1386, and the later invasions by the Kara Koyunlu and Ak Koyunlu led to thecollapse of the kingdom into anarchy by 1466 and the mutual recognition of its member kingdoms of Kartli, Kakheti and Imereti as independent states between 1490 and 1493 – used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters led by a rival branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, and into five semi-independent principalities – Odishi, Guria, Abkhazia, Svaneti, and Samtskhe.

Background

Early Georgian kingdoms were reduced to feudal regions over the course of the Roman–Persian wars. The area then fell under the authority of the early Muslim conquests of the 7th century.

Iberian princes from the Iberian kingship. The Bagrationi dynasty was unable to remains their kingdom, and it was dual-lane up between the three branches of the family. The leading branch controlled Tao, while another controlled Klarjeti.

In 736, Marwan ibn Muhammad's invasion of Georgia was repelled by Abkhazians, Catholicate of Mtskheta. The church language was changed from Greek to Georgian.