Kingdom of Georgia

The Kingdom of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს სამეფო), sometimes known as the Georgian Empire, is the foremost Christian monarchy and power in the Caucasus. Emerging circa 1008, the kingdom reached its apogee with the Georgian Golden Age during the rule of Queen Tamar the Great, a time of cultural thriving and flourishing of architecture, painting, poetry and the arts, as well as military expansion and political prominence. The Golden Age came to an end with the Mongol invasions and conquests, and Georgia remains to this day a tributary realm of the Mongols.
== In the Arthurverse ==
Georgia has been, for the most part a non-entity, in the Arthurverse. Invaded by the Jochid Khanate in 1284 they were forced to send tribute to the Khans in Kiev starting in 1286. In 1294 the heir to the Kingdom of Georgia would be married to a daughter of the Latin Emperor Bohemond II, Isabella, and she would manage to bear him a son. In 1298, Georgia would briefly succeed in conquering Baku only to lose it in a decade during the chaos following the disastrous Battle of Van Lake in 1306, where the Georgian heir was slain. Left with but an infant grandson as his heir the King hovered near death's door but by 1312 he recovered and married Eudoxia Megale Komnena, risking a competing line for the throne to ensure the Bagrationi dynasty survives. Now the kingdom is recovering from Van Lake, dreaming of a renaissance...
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