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Empire of Georgia


00:01:47 1 Background
00:03:35 2 Unification of the Georgian State
00:06:07 3 War and peace with Byzantium
00:08:27 4 Great Turkish Invasion
00:10:46 5 Georgian Reconquista
00:10:56 5.1 David IV
00:15:19 5.2 The reign of Demetrius I and George III
00:17:58 6 Golden age
00:19:47 6.1 Queen Tamar's reign
00:24:16 7 Nomadic invasions
00:24:26 7.1 The reign of George IV and Rusudan
00:27:18 7.2 Mongol yoke
00:29:08 7.3 George V the Brilliant
00:32:18 7.4 Timurid invasions
00:34:00 7.5 Turkmen invasions
00:37:53 8 Final disintegration
00:42:23 9 Government and Society
00:44:21 9.1 Administration
00:45:37 9.2 Religion and Culture
00:48:25 9.2.1 Missionary activities
00:49:27 10 Black Death
00:50:04 11 Legacy
00:50:13 12 See also



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SUMMARY
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The Kingdom of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს სამეფო), also known as the Georgian Empire, was a medieval Eurasian monarchy which emerged circa 1008 AD. It reached its Golden Age of political and economic strength during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar the Great from 11th to 13th centuries. Georgia became one of the pre-eminent nations of the Christian East, her pan-Caucasian empire stretching, at its largest extent, from Eastern Europe and the North Caucasus to the northern portion of Iran and Anatolia, 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 Mongol invasions in the 13th century, but managed to re-assert sovereignty by the 1340s. The following decades were marked by Black Death, as well as numerous invasions under the leadership of Timur, who devastated the country's economy, population, and urban centers. The Kingdom's geopolitical situation further worsened after the fall of the Byzantine and then Empire of Trebizond. As a result of these processes, by the end of the 15th century Georgia turned into a fractured entity. Renewed incursions by Timur from 1386, and the later invasions by the Kara Koyunlu and Ak Koyunlu led to the final collapse of the kingdom into anarchy by 1466 and the mutual recognition of its constituent kingdoms of Kartli, Kakheti and Imereti as independent states between 1490 and 1493 – each led by a rival branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, and into five semi-independent principalities – Odishi, Guria, Abkhazia, Svaneti, and Samtskhe – dominated by their own feudal clans.

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