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Chosroid dynasty

Chosroid dynasty
Country Kingdom of Iberia
Principality of Iberia
Kakheti
Parent house House of Mihran
Titles King of Iberia
Prince of Iberia
Erismtavari of Kakheti
Founded 284
Founder Mirian III of Iberia
Final ruler Juansher of Kakheti
Cadet branches Guaramid dynasty

The Khosro[v]ianni (Georgian: ხოსრო[ვ]იანები; ხოსრო[ვ]იანნი), Latinized as Chosroids, also known as the Iberian Mihranids or Mihranids of Iberia, were a dynasty of the kings and later of the presiding princes of the early Georgian state of Iberia, natively known as Kartli, from the 4th to the 9th centuries. The family, of Iranian Mihranid origin, accepted Christianity as their official religion c. 337 (or 319/326), and maneuvered between the Byzantine Empire and Sassanid Iran to retain a degree of independence. After the abolition of the Iberian kingship by the Sassanids c. 580, the dynasty survived in its two closely related, but sometimes competing princely branches—the elder Chosroid and the younger Guaramid—down to the early ninth century when they were succeeded by the Georgian Bagratids on the throne of Iberia.

The Chosroids were a branch of the Mihranid princely family, one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran, who were distantly related to the Sasanians, and whose two other branches were soon placed on the thrones of Gogarene and Gardman, the two Caucasian principalities where the three nations – Armenians, Albanians, and Georgians – commingled.


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