Kingdom of Georgia
Also known as Georgian Empire, Georgia
medieval state in Eastern Europe
Key facts
- Capital
- Kutaisi ( c. 1008 –1122) Tbilisi ( c. 1122 –1490)
- Common languages
- Middle Georgian (language of governance, literacy, and coinage) , Zan , Greek , Armenian , Arabic ( lingua franca /numismatics/chancery) , Persian ( numismatics )
- Religion
- State and majority , Eastern Orthodox ( Georgian Orthodox Church ) , Minority Armenian Apostolic Church Catholicism Islam
- Government
- Feudal monarchy
- 1008 1014 first
- Bagrat III
- 1446 1465 last de facto
- George VIII
- 1478 1490 last de jure
- Constantine II
- Legislature
- Council of State
- Historical era
- High Middle Ages to Late Middle Ages
- Unification
- c. 1008
- Georgian golden age
- 1122–1226
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the full title of the Georgian monarchs after 1124 was "King of Kings, Autocrat of all the East and the West, Sword of the Messiah, King of Abkhazia, King of Iberia, King of Kakheti and Hereti, King of Armenia, Possessor of Shirvan."
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