King of Georgia
| King of Georgia საქართველოს მეფე |
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| First monarch | Guaram I |
| Last monarch | George XII |
| Formation | 575 |
| Abolition | 1801 |
| Residence |
Armazi Mtskheta Artanuji (now in Turkey) Kutaisi Tbilisi Gremi Telavi |
| Pretender(s) |
Nugzar Bagrationi David Bagrationi |
This is a list of kings and queens of the kingdoms of Georgia under Bagrationi dynasty before Russian annexation in 1801–1810.
For more comprehensive lists, and family trees, of Georgian monarchs and rulers see Lists of Georgian monarchs.
Persian and Byzantine conquest destroyed rule and replaced the hereditary king with a hereditary prince. In 580, the Persians abolished the Iberian monarchy and established the province of Iberia, allowing various princes to rule through the Principality of Iberia as governors of the Sasanids for the remainder of their domination of Iberia, up to the course of the 620s. With the dawn of the Arabs, the presiding princes regained power in 888, restoring kingship. The following is a list of those princes:
Unified Kingdom of Georgia
The eventual victors in Georgia were of the house of Bagrationi, who claimed descent from the earlier dynasty. This family would rule Georgia and all Georgian kingdoms until the Russians annexed all of Georgia in the early 19th century.
In 1008, Bagrat, who had been King of Abkhazia (present-day Western Georgia) since 978, inherited from his father Gurgen the crown of Iberia (or Kartli, present-day Eastern Georgia). The two kingdoms united into what came to be known as the Kingdom of Georgia.
Independent Kingdom of Imereti Kingdom of Georgia (broken) Periods of reuniting
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