Bagrat ( hy,
Բագրատ, in
Western Armenian pronounced Pakrad, ka,
ბაგრატ) is a
male name popular in
Georgia and
Armenia. It is derived from the
Old Persian
Old Persian is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan language, Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native ...
''Bagadāta'', "gift of God".
The names of the Armenian
Bagratuni and Georgian
Bagrationi dynasties (literally, "the house of/established by Bagrat") are derived from the name.
Georgian monarchs
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Bagrat I of Iberia, Georgian prince
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Bagrat I of Mukhrani, Georgian prince
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Bagrat I of Abkhazia, Georgian king
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Bagrat I of Tao
Bagrat I ( ka, ბაგრატ I) (died March 945) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and hereditary ruler of Upper Tao with the Byzantine title of magistros. He also held lands in Javakheti, Shavsheti, Kola, Artaan ...
, Georgian prince
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Bagrat I of Klarjeti, Georgian prince
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Bagrat I of Imereti, Georgian king
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Bagrat II of Iberia, Georgian king
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Bagrat II of Tao
Bagrat II ( ka, ბაგრატ II) (died 966) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and hereditary ruler of Upper Tao, with the title of ''eristavt-eristavi'', "duke of dukes", from 961 to 966.
Bagrat was a son and su ...
, Georgian prince
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Bagrat II of Klarjeti Prince Bagrat ( ka, ბაგრატი) (died in 988) was a Georgian prince of the Bagrationi dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti.
Prince Bagrat was son of Sumbat II of Klarjeti and father of Sumbat III of Klarjeti and George. George was the father of Deme ...
, Georgian prince
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Bagrat III of Georgia
Bagrat III ( ka, ბაგრატ III) (c. 960 – 7 May 1014), of the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty, was King of Abkhazia from 978 on (as Bagrat II) and King of Georgia from 1008 on. He united these two titles by dynastic inheritance and, thro ...
, Georgian king
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Bagrat III of Imereti, Georgian king
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Bagrat III of Klarjeti Prince Bagrat III (died 1028) ( ka, ბაგრატ) was a Georgian prince of the Bagrationi dynasty from Tao-Klarjeti.Cyrille Toumanoff, Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle : Tables généalogiques et ...
, Georgian prince
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Bagrat IV of Imereti Bagrat IV ( ka, ბაგრატ IV) (1565 – died after 1590), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Imereti from 1589 to 1590.
According to the mainstream Georgian scholarship, Bagrat was a son of Prince Teimuraz and a grandson of King Bag ...
, Georgian king
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Bagrat IV of Georgia, Georgian king
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Bagrat V of Georgia, Georgian king
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Bagrat V of Imereti
Bagrat V ( ka, ბაგრატ V) (1620–1681), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Imereti, whose troubled reign in the years of 1660–61, 1663–68, 1669–78, and 1679–81, was marked by extreme instability and feudal anarchy in the k ...
, Georgian king
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Bagrat VI of Georgia
Bagrat VI ( ka, ბაგრატ VI; 1439 – 1478), a representative of the Imeretian branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king of Imereti (as Bagrat II) from 1463, and a king of Georgia from 1465 until his death.
Life
He was the son of P ...
, Georgian king
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Bagrat VII of Kartli
Bagrat VII ( ka, ბაგრატ VII) (1569–1619), also known as Bagrat Khan, was King of Kartli, eastern Georgia, effectively serving as a khan for the Persian shah Abbas I from 1615/1616 to 1619.
Life
A son of David XI of Kartli, he took ...
, Georgian king
Others
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Bagrat Asatryan
Bagrat A. Asatryan ( hy, Բագրատ Արտաշեսի Ասատրյան, born February 2, 1956), also transliterated Bagrat Asatrian or Assatrian, is an Armenian economist and the former Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia from 1994 to 1998. H ...
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Bagrat Galstanyan
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Bagrat Ioannisiani
Bagrat Konstantinovich Ioannisiani (born in Yerevan, Armenia, died 10 December 1985 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet telescope designer of Armenian descent.
He was the chief designer of the BTA-6
The BTA-6 (russian: Большой Те ...
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Bagrat Oghanian
Bagrat Oghanian (5 February 1981 – 18 December 2021) was an Armenian boxer best known for winning the Super Heavyweight Bronze medal at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
Life and career
As an amateur, he scored his biggest succe ...
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Bagrat Shinkuba
Bagrat Uasyl-ipa Shinkuba ( ab, Баграҭ Уасыл-иҧа Шьынқәба; russian: Баграт Васильевич Шинкуба; 12 May 1917 – 25 February 2004) was an Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician. He ...
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Bagrat Ulubabyan
Bagrat Arshaki Ulubabyan ( hy, Բագրատ Արշակի Ուլուբաբյան; russian: link=no, Баграт Аршакович Улубабян; December 9, 1925 – November 19, 2001) was an Armenian writer and historian, known most promine ...
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Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera
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Prince Bagrat of Georgia
Bagrat ( ka, ბაგრატი) (8 May 1776 – 8 May 1841) was a Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili'') of the House of Bagrationi and an author. A son of King George XII of Georgia, Bagrat occupied important administrative posts in the la ...
See also
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Bagrati Cathedral
References
Georgian masculine given names
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