Principality of Tao-Klarjeti
| Principality of Tao-Klarjeti (Kingdom of Kartli) | ||||||||||
| ქართველთა სამეფო | ||||||||||
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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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Principality of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgian: ტაო-კლარჯეთი), also referred to as the Kingdom of Kartli (Georgian: ქართველთა სამეფო), was a constellation of medieval Georgian political entities, succeeding the Principality of Iberia, in what is now parts of the provinces of Erzurum, Artvin, Ardahan and Kars in north-eastern Turkey as well parts of modern southwestern Georgia.
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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