Kingdom of the Kartvels
| Kingdom of The Kartvels (Georgians) | ||||||||||
| ქართველთა სამეფო | ||||||||||
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.svg) Map of Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti
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Artanuji Bana |
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| Languages | Georgian | |||||||||
| Religion | Georgian Orthodox Church | |||||||||
| Political structure | Kingdom | |||||||||
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| • | 813-826 | Ashot I of Iberia (first) | ||||||||
| • | 881-923 | Adarnase IV (first to be titled as a "King of the Georgians") | ||||||||
| • | 994-1008 | Gourgen II (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Established | 888 | ||||||||
| • | Union of Abkhazia and Tao-Klarjeti | 1008 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1008 | ||||||||
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The Kingdom of the Kartvels (Georgians) (Georgian: ქართველთა სამეფო) also referred as the Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgian: ტაო-კლარჯეთის სამეფო) was a medieval Georgian (Kartvelian) kingdom and principality, succeeding the Principality of Iberia, in what is now part of the provinces of Erzurum, Artvin, Ardahan and Kars in north-eastern Turkey.
Tao and Klarjeti were originally only the names of the two most important provinces of the Georgian lands that stretched from the "Georgian Gorge" (Turkish Gürcü Boğazı) in the south to the Lesser Caucasus in the north.
Historically, the area comprised the following provinces: West of the Arsiani Mountains (Turk. Yalnızçam Dağları) were Tao, Klarjeti, Nigali, and Shavsheti, to the east lay Samtskhe, Erusheti, Javakheti, Artaani, Kola and Basiani. The landscape is characterised by mountains and the river-systems of the Chorokhi (Turk. Çoruh) and the Mtkvari (Turk. Kura). Tao-Klarjeti’s geographical position between the great Empires of the East and the West, and the fact that one branch of the Silk Road ran through its territory, meant that it was subject to a constant stream of diverging influences.
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