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Principality of Iberia

early medieval aristocratic regime in a core Georgian region of Kartli

16 dated entries naming Principality of Iberia, drawn from 15 separate years between 590 CE and 994 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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6th century

  • 590Stephen I succeeds his father Guaram I as king of Iberia (Georgia) (approximate date).source
  • 590Guaram I, king of Iberia (Georgia)source
  • 591Byzantine–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).source

7th century

  • 684Adarnase II, king of Iberia (approximate date)source
  • 692Arab–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).source
  • 699Umayyad 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).source

9th century

  • 806Harun 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.source
  • 813Ashot I ("the Great") becomes the first Georgian Bagratid prince of Iberia, under Byzantine protection.source
  • 826Ashot I, prince of Iberia (or 830)source
  • 830Ashot I, prince of Iberia (or 826)source
  • 876Bagrat I, prince of Iberia (Georgia)source
  • 881David I, prince of Iberia (Georgia)source

10th century

  • 923Adarnase IV, prince of Iberia/Kartli (Georgia)source
  • 937Bagrat II, king of Iberia and Kartli (d. 994)source
  • 958Sumbat I, king of Iberia (Georgia)source
  • 994Bagrat II, king of Iberia-Kartli (Georgia) (b. 937)source

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