Kinrick o Iberie
Caucasian Iberie | |||||||||||
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| ca. 302 BC–580 AD | |||||||||||
-en.svg) Colchis an Caucasian Iberie | |||||||||||
| Status | Kinrick | ||||||||||
| Caipital | Armazi Mtskheta Tbilisi | ||||||||||
| Common leids | Georgie | ||||||||||
| Govrenment | Monarchy | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||||||
• Pharnavaz I's reign | ca. 302 BC | ||||||||||
• Adoption o Christianity as state releegion | 326 ? AD/337 ? AD | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 580 AD | ||||||||||
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| The day pairt o |  Georgia Turkey Russia Armenia Azerbaijan | ||||||||||
In Greco-Roman geografie, Iberie (Greek Ἰβηρία, Georgie: იბერია)[needs IPA] wis the name for a kinrick o the Southern Caucasus, centered on present-day Eastren Georgie. Iberie, an aa kent in Georgian as Kartli (Georgie: ქართლი), efter its core province, wis during Classical Antiquity an the Early Middle Ages a signeeficant state in the Caucasus, aither as an independent state or as a dependent o lairger empires, notably the Sassanid an Roman empires.[1] Its population, kent as the Caucasian Iberians, formed the nucleus o the Georgie fowk (Kartvelians), an the state, thegither wi Colchis tae its wast, wad form the nucleus o the medieval Kinrick o Georgie.[2][3]
The term Caucasian Iberia is uised tae distinguish it frae the Iberie Peninsula in Wastren Europe.
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- ↑ Ehsan Yarshater (1983). The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian periods. Cambridge University Press. pp. 520–. ISBN 978-0-521-20092-9. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
- ↑ Ronald Grigor Suny. The Making of the Georgian Nation. Indiana University Press, p. 13 ISBN 0-253-20915-3.
- ↑ William Coffman McDermott, Wallace Everett Caldwell. Readings in the History of the Ancient World. p. 404.