Caucasian Iberia - Between Rome/Byzantium and Persia

Iberia was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli (4th century BC-5th century AD) corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia. The term “Caucasian Iberia” (or the Eastern Iberia) is used to distinguish it from the Iberian Peninsula, where the present day states of Spain and Portugal are located. The Caucasian Iberians provided a basis for later Georgian statehood and formed a core of the present day Georgian people/Kartveli ...

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• Caucasian Iberia - History
• Caucasian Iberia - Earliest history
• Caucasian Iberia - Pharnavaz I and his descendants
• Caucasian Iberia - Roman period
• Caucasian Iberia - Between Rome/Byzantium and Persia
• Caucasian Iberia - Fall of the kingdom
• Caucasian Iberia - Arab period
• Caucasian Iberia - Eastern and Western Iberians

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Caucasian Iberia - Earliest history. The area was inhabited in earliest times by several relative tribes, collectively called Iberians (the Eastern Iberians) by ancient authors. Locals called their country Kartli after a mythic chief, Kartlos. The Moschi mentioned by various classic historians, and their possible descendants, the Saspers, mentioned by Herodotus, may have played a crucial role in the consolidation of the tribes inhabiting the area. Probably, the word “Iberia” is also derived from ...

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Caucasian Iberia, Caucasian Iberia - History, Caucasian Iberia - Earliest history, Caucasian Iberia - Pharnavaz I and his descendants, Caucasian Iberia - Roman period, Caucasian Iberia - Between Rome/Byzantium and Persia, Caucasian Iberia - Fall of the kingdom, Caucasian Iberia - Arab period, Caucasian Iberia - Eastern and Western Iberians

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The similarity of the name with the old inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula has lead to an idea of ethnogenetical kinship between that people, called Western Iberians, as opposite to Eastern Iberians. It has been advocated by various ancient and medieval authors, although they differed in approach to the problem of the initial place of their origin. The theory seems to be popular also in the medieval Georgia. The prominent Georgian religious writer Giorgi Mthatzmindeli (George of Mt Athos) (1009-1065) writes about the wish of certain Georgian nobles to travel ...

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Caucasian Iberia, Caucasian Iberia - History, Caucasian Iberia - Earliest history, Caucasian Iberia - Pharnavaz I and his descendants, Caucasian Iberia - Roman period, Caucasian Iberia - Between Rome/Byzantium and Persia, Caucasian Iberia - Fall of the kingdom, Caucasian Iberia - Arab period, Caucasian Iberia - Eastern and Western Iberians

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