{"slug": "principality-of-iberia", "label": "Principality of Iberia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Iberia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199389", "qid": "Q199389", "description": "early medieval aristocratic regime in a core Georgian region of Kartli", "entries": 16, "years": 15, "span": [590, 994], "span_label": ["590 CE", "994 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 9}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "georgia-country", "label": "Georgia (country)", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bagrationi-dynasty", "label": "Bagrationi dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mesopotamia", "label": "Mesopotamia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-army", "label": "Byzantine army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maurice-emperor", "label": "Maurice (emperor)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khosrau-ii", "label": "Khosrau II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantinesassanid-war-of-572591", "label": "Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "atropatene", "label": "Atropatene", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 590, "year_label": "590 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Stephen I succeeds his father Guaram I as king of Iberia (Georgia) (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753220#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "590", "revid": 1364753220, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 590, "year_label": "590 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Guaram I, king of Iberia (Georgia)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753220#Deaths", "title": "590", "revid": 1364753220, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 591, "year_label": "591 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Sassanid War: Emperor Maurice, seeing an opportunity to end the prolonged war to the advantage of Constantinople, assists Khosrau II to regain the Persian throne. He sends a Byzantine army (35,000 men) under Narses into Mesopotamia, through Syria. At the same time, an expeditionary force in Armenia advances through Caucasian Iberia into Media (modern Azerbaijan).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751608#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "591", "revid": 1364751608, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 684, "year_label": "684 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Adarnase II, king of Iberia (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805928#Deaths", "title": "684", "revid": 1340805928, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 692, "year_label": "692 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab–Byzantine War: Muslims conquer Armenia, Iberia and Colchis, the last remaining Byzantine holdings east of the Taurus Mountains. Emperor Justinian II is forced to agree to joint Byzantine-Arab control of Cyprus, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806257#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "692", "revid": 1340806257, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 699, "year_label": "699 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Umayyad troops invade Armenia, and secure the submission of Prince Smbat VI Bagratuni. The South Caucasus becomes a viceroyalty called al-Arminiya, and is divided into four regions: Caucasian Albania, Caucasian Iberia, the area around the Aras River, and Taron (modern Turkey).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806595#Umayyad_Caliphate", "title": "699", "revid": 1340806595, "section": "Events › By place › Umayyad Caliphate"}}, {"year": 806, "year_label": "806 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Harun al-Rashid appoints Ashot Msaker (\"the Carnivorous\") as the new presiding prince of Armenia. The Bagratids emerge as one of the country's two most powerful noble families. Harun recognizes another Bagratid branch, under Ashot I Curopalates, as princes of Caucasian Iberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292643508#Abbasid_Caliphate", "title": "806", "revid": 1292643508, "section": "Events › By place › Abbasid Caliphate"}}, {"year": 813, "year_label": "813 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ashot I (\"the Great\") becomes the first Georgian Bagratid prince of Iberia, under Byzantine protection.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340940841#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "813", "revid": 1340940841, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 826, "year_label": "826 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ashot I, prince of Iberia (or 830)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941323#Deaths", "title": "826", "revid": 1340941323, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 830, "year_label": "830 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ashot I, prince of Iberia (or 826)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359310799#Deaths", "title": "830", "revid": 1359310799, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 876, "year_label": "876 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Bagrat I, prince of Iberia (Georgia)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070562#Deaths", "title": "876", "revid": 1267070562, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 881, "year_label": "881 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "David I, prince of Iberia (Georgia)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129955#Deaths", "title": "881", "revid": 1341129955, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 923, "year_label": "923 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Adarnase IV, prince of Iberia/Kartli (Georgia)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509659#Deaths", "title": "923", "revid": 1341509659, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 937, "year_label": "937 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Bagrat II, king of Iberia and Kartli (d. 994)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367668437#Births", "title": "937", "revid": 1367668437, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 958, "year_label": "958 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Sumbat I, king of Iberia (Georgia)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468198#Deaths", "title": "958", "revid": 1364468198, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 994, "year_label": "994 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Bagrat II, king of Iberia-Kartli (Georgia) (b. 937)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350027284#Deaths", "title": "994", "revid": 1350027284, "section": "Deaths"}}]}