Bagrationi
Bagrationi (or Bagratids) was a Royal dynasty of Georgia in 809-1810. Family of Georgian Bagration's was arised in South Georgia, in the ancient Georgian region of Speri (part of the Georgian Principality of Tao-Klarjeti , now territory of Turkey), from the Georgian family of Bivritiani, in the 6th century AD.
Ashot I the Great (Ashot I Kurapalate) (809-826) was the first King from this family and founder of the Royal dynasty. First King of the united Georgian Kingdom (888-1466) was Adarnase II (888-923). Greatest representatives of this dynasty were David the Builder, Tamar of Georgia and others. Last King from the dynasty of Bagrationi was a King of Imereti Solomon II (1789-1810). In 1801 by the Tsarist Russian Empire was occupied and annexed the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia), in 1810 the Kingdom of Imereti (Western Georgia).
Main sources of the history of the dynasty of Bagrationi are Georgian chronicles of the 10th-18th centuries: chronicle of Sumbat Davitis dze, "Moktsevai Kartlisai", "Tskhovreba Kartvelta Mepeta", "Matiane Kartlisa", etc.
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Kings of the united Georgian Kingdom were:
Kings of the united Georgian Kingdom (888-1466)
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