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Name: Caucasian Iberia (Sasanian Empire)

Type: Polity

Start: 261 AD

End: 580 AD

Nation: caucasian iberia

Parent: persia (antiquity)

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Was the Georgian kingdom of Kartli which during Classical Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages was a significant monarchy in the Caucasus, either as an independent state or as a dependent state of larger empires, notably the Sassanid and Roman empires.

Establishment


  • January 261: Iberia became a tributary of the Sasanian state during the reign of Shapur I (241-272).
  • Chronology


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    1. Roman-Persian Wars


    Were a series of Wars between Rome (first the Roman Republic then the Roman Empire and finally the Eastern Roman Empire) and Persia (the Parthian Empire, and then its successor, the Sasanian Empire). The wars were ended by the early Muslim conquests, which led to the fall of the Sasanian Empire and huge territorial losses for the Byzantine Empire.

    1.1.Military Campaigns of Shapur I in Syria and Mesopotamia

    Was a military campaign by Sassanid King Shapur I against the Roman Empire.


    1.2.Sasanian Campaign of Galerius

    Was a military campaign by Roman Emperor Galerius against the Sasanian Empire.

  • January 299: In the Peace of Nisibis while the Roman empire obtained control of Caucasian Iberia becomes again a vassal state.

  • 1.3.Sasanian Campaign of Julian

    Was a military campaign by Roman Emperor Julian against the Sasanian Empire.

    1.3.1.Perso-Roman Peace Treaty of 363

    Was a peace treaty between the Romans and Sasanians in 363 AD.

  • January 364: After the emperor Julian was slain during his failed campaign in Persia in 363, Rome ceded control of Iberia to Persia.

  • 1.4.Iberian War

    Was a war between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sasanian Empire over the eastern Georgian kingdom of Iberia - a Sasanian client state that had defected to the Byzantines.

  • January 528: By 527 the Iberian revolt had been crushed.

  • 1.5.Byzantine-Sasanian War of 572-591

    Was a war fought between the Sasanian Empire of Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire. It was triggered by pro-Byzantine revolts in areas of the Caucasus under Persian hegemony.

  • January 581: The Principality of Iberia was established shortly after the suppression of the Cosroid dynasty of the Kingdom of Iberia by Sasanian Persia, around 580.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 509: In 580, Hormizd IV abolished the monarchy after the death of King Bakur III, and Iberia became a Persian province ruled by a marzpan (governor).

  • Disestablishment


  • January 581: The Principality of Iberia was established shortly after the suppression of the Cosroid dynasty of the Kingdom of Iberia by Sasanian Persia, around 580.
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