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Prince Jibrael Of Georgia
Jibrael ( ka, ჯიბრაელი) also known as Gabriel (გაბრიელი) (13 August 1788 – 29 February 1812) was a Georgia (country), Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili'') of the Bagrationi dynasty. He was a son of King George XII of Georgia by his second wife Mariam Tsitsishvili. After the Russian Empire, Russian annexation of Georgia, he lived in Saint Petersburg, where he was known as ''Tsarevich'' Gavriil Georgiyevich (russian: Гавриил Георгиевич). Biography Jibrael was the second son of King George XII and Queen Mariam. He was 13 years old in 1801, when the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti, kingdom of Georgia was annexed by the Russian Empire following the death of George XII and the ensuing dynastic disputes. The Russian administration considered Jibrael an unimportant member of the Georgian royal family, for his physical abilities were limited by a pronounced vertebral column, vertebral deformity; his elder brother, Prince Mikhail of Georgia ... [...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 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |