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David I (Georgian: დავით I) (died February 23, 943) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti who ruled, with the title of mampali...

Klarjeti (Georgian: კლარჯეთი [kʼlaɾd͡ʒetʰi]) was a province of ancient and medieval Georgia, which is now part of Turkey's Artvin Province. Klarjeti, the...

Sumbat I (Georgian: სუმბატ I) (died 899) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and hereditary ruler of Klarjeti from c. 870 until...

Iberian prince Ashot I of the Bagrationi dynasty established himself in his patrimonial Duchy of Klarjeti, where he restored the castle of Artanuji, said to...

Bagrat I (Georgian: ბაგრატ I) (died April 20, 900) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and the ruler of Klarjeti from 889 until...

nobleman of Iberia (Kartli, modern Georgia) and the founder of the Georgian Bagratid dynasty. He established himself in Tao-Klarjeti as a vassal of the Chosroid...

murdered by Nasra of Tao-Klarjeti, who self-proclaimed as his successor. David's death led to an inter-dynastic feud under David's only son Adarnase, who...

Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and ruler of Klarjeti from 943 until his death. Sumbat was the only son of David I, whom he succeeded...

Georgian princess of the Bagrationi dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti branch. She was a daughter of Adarnase I of Tao-Klarjeti and sister of King Ashot I of Iberia. She...

of several Georgian Bagratid principalities known as Tao-Klarjeti. However, the integrity of the empire itself was under serious threat after a full-scale...

to the throne of Abkhazia. Bagrat supported his brother-in-law, Nasra who tried to take power in Tao-Klarjeti, the latter killed David I curopalates in...

a daughter of David I of Klarjeti. Information on his life lacks details, but we know that he participated with his younger brother David in a plot against...

Georgia. In February 1116 by the order of the king, the army of Kartli and Meskhetians were gathered at Klarjeti, David suddenly attacked and destroyed the...

in modern history as Tao-Klarjeti. In 813, the new dynasty acquired, with Ashot I, the hereditary title of presiding prince of Iberia (Kartli), to which...

David II (Georgian: დავით II) (died 937) was a member of the Georgian Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and titular king (mepe) of Iberia from 923 until...

and Klarjeti. The kingdom had one spaspet who was under the direct control of the royal power based in Inner Kartli. Eristavates mimicked aspects of Achaemenid...

of Tao-Klarjeti, volume 1, under the editorship of G. Bagrationbi, B. Kupatadze and J. Samushia, Tbilisi, 2020. Georgian Fortresses of Tao-Klarjeti,...

of Tao-Klarjeti. In 978, the Bagratid prince Bagrat, nephew (sister's son) of the heirless Theodosius, occupied the Abkhazian throne with the help of...

Abasgians forced him out of this region. Like his father Ashot, Bagrat was a patron of the large-scale monastic movement in Klarjeti. He granted the monk...

Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Medieval Georgian kingdom of Klarjeti (modern-day Artvin Province of Turkey). It was used as a mosque, now abandoned. Its construction...