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Prince Demetrius Of Georgia
Demetrius ( ka, დემეტრე, ) (died 1042) was a Georgia (country), Georgian prince of the Bagrationi royal dynasty, and a claimant to the Kingdom of Georgia, throne of Georgia. He was the younger son of George I of Georgia by his second wife Alda of Alania, Alda, daughter of the king of Alania. After the death of George I, some Georgian nobles wished to enthrone Demetrius instead of his half-brother Bagrat IV of Georgia, Bagrat IV (r. 1027–1072), but to no avail. Alda and Demetrius lived in their fief at Anacopia, a fortified maritime town in Abkhazia, which had been bequeathed to them by the late king George I. The efforts by Bagrat's mother Mariam of Vaspurakan, Mariam to win Demetrius's loyalty to the crown went in vain. Threatened by Bagrat, Alda defected to the Byzantine Empire, Byzantines and surrendered Anacopia to the emperor Romanos III who honored her son Demetrius with the rank of ''magistros''. This happened in 1033. In 1039, Demetrius returned to Georgia wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of , and has a population of 3.7 million people. Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, home to roughly a third of the Georgian population. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established in what is now Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. In the early 4th century, ethnic Georgians officially adopted Christianity, which contributed to the spiritual and political unification of the early Georgian states. In the Middle Ages, the unified Kingdom of Georgia emerged and reached its Golden Age during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the kingdom decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |