1951/01/01 by Cyril Toumanoff · 7 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Archaeology #Byzantine Studies and History #Classics #Empire #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Face (sociological concept) #Fifteenth #History #Institution #Kingdom #Law #Medieval History and Crusades #Political science #Politics #Realm #Social science #Sociology #Sovereignty
paper · doi:10.1017/s0362152900015142
published in Traditio 7, 169-221 (Cambridge University Press)
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The end of the fifteenth century witnessed the dissolution of the medieval kingdom of Georgia. The three kingdoms — of Georgia proper (Iberia= K'art'li), of Imeretia (Abasgia), and of Kakhetia — and the five sovereign principalities, into which that ancient and once powerful realm had found itself divided, were ill prepared now to face the onslaught of the Islamic imperialism of the Osmans and the Safawis or, finally, to prevent the nearest Christian empire, to which they had turned for aid, from absorbing them.