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	The Bagrationi Royal Dynasty of Georgia
		In 619-678 Guaram II, a son of Stepanoz I was a Duke (Eristavi in Georgian) of the Georgian Principality of Klarjeti.
		Bagrat's mother was Queen Gurandukht, a daughter of Giorgi II of Abkhazeti.
		The last Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia was Anton II (Bagrationi), the son of Erekle II.
	www.iaphs.org /articles/urushadze.html (1764 words)

	Georgian Kings - ©Welcome2Sakartvelo
		Luarsab II (Son of Giorgi, was martyred by Shahabas I in 1622)
		Teimuraz II (Son of Erekle, from 1709-1715 rules Kaheti and becomes a king of Kaheti in 1733-1744)
		Erekle II (Son of Teimuraz, king of Kaheti from 1744-1762)
	www.geocities.com /kartulisite/history/kings.html (183 words)

	HISTORY OF IRANIAN-GEORGIAN RELATION - (CAIS) ©
		Rome ceded control of Kartli to Persia, and the king of Kartli, Varaz-Bakur II (363-65), became a Persian vassal, an outcome confirmed by the Peace of Acilisene in 387.
		Yazdegerd II (438-57), convinced that a single religion would enhance the unity of his realm, issued a decree formally admonishing the peoples of the Caucasus to renounce Christianity and embrace Mazdaism and dispatched Zoroastrian magi to Kartli to take charge of conversion (Trever, pp.
		One of these was David/Dâwûd Khan II (1569-78), whose reign marked the beginning of almost two and a half centuries of Persian political dominance over eastern Georgia, with only occasional interruptions, until the advent of the Russians at the end of the 18th century.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/iranian_georgian_relation.htm (5238 words)

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		Kings Teimuraz II and Erekle II defeated the Shahs representatives and made them into their tributary.
		King Erekle and Solomon had several goals to participate in this war and rid the country of Turks and Iranians, and to gain back previously lost territory, and defeat all internal opposition forces.
		Erekle II left for Mtiuleti with small group of warriors.
	www.geotc.net /histori/ist11_en.htm (843 words)

	Koningen van Georgië
		Luarsab II (son of Giorgi, was martyred by Shahabas I in 1622) 1606-1615
		Teimuraz II (son of Erekle, from 1709-1715 rules Kaheti and becomes a king of Kaheti in 1733-1744) 1744-1761
		Erekle II (son of Teimuraz, king of Kaheti from 1744-1762) 1762-1798
	www.amarcord.be /georgia/koning01.html (247 words)

	The Franco-Georgian Diplomatic Relationship: 1810-1811
		King Erekle II (1741-1798) strove to raise Georgia to the European level of development.
		Erekle II needed Russian support for his dynasty, threatened by bitter rivalries among the children of his wives, and for his country against a reassertion of Persian power by a strong shah seeking to rebuild the empire of Nadir Shah.
		Erekle was to conduct negotiations with foreign powers only after securing the approval of the Russian authorities.
	www.napoleon-series.org /research/government/diplomatic/c_georgia2.html (2441 words)

	Iranica.com - GEORGIA ii.
		One of these was David/Da@wu@d Khan II (1569-78), whose reign marked the beginning of almost two and a half centuries of Persian political dominance over eastern Georgia, with only occasional interruptions, until the advent of the Russians at the end of the 18th century.
		Vakhtang V (1659-75), ˆa@hnava@z II to the Persians, tried to reestablish a united kingdom in eastern Georgia by placing his son, Archil II, on the throne of Kakheti (Brosset, II/1, pp.
		Erekle (Eregl^ Khan) refused to become a mere wa@l^ of Kartli-Kakheti and reaffirmed his attachment to Russia.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v10f5/v10f504b.html (5174 words)

	Georgia (country) - MSN Encarta
		In 1122 King David II, one of Bagrat’s descendants, expelled the Turks and recovered Tbilisi.
		In 1762 Erekle II of the Bagratids reunited the eastern Georgian regions of Kartli and Kakheti, forming a new Georgian kingdom that covered much of present-day Georgia.
		In the late 1700s King Erekle turned to Russia for protection against foreign conquest, primarily by Iran, and in 1783 he accepted Russian suzerainty in return for Russia’s guarantee to maintain his kingdom’s borders.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556415_2/Georgia_(country).html (1617 words)

	History
		On July 24, 1783, Russian Emperor Catherine II and King of East-Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti Erekle II, signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, which made Kartli-Kakheti a protectorate of Russia.
		Erekle II's successor King George XII asked Russian emperor to stand by its commitments of the Georgievsk treaty.
		In 1810 the King of Imereti Solomon II was forced by the Russians to flee to Turkey, and Imereti came under Russian rule, although Mengrelian and Abkhazian principalities preserved certain autonomy till 1864.
	tbileli.o-f.com /history.htm (2491 words)

	Georgia:History
		Ereklé II remained on his throne, which was to be inherited by his son.
		The treaty of 1783 was a triumph of the forces that fought for the liberation of Georgia from the domination of Iran and Turkey.
		The Russian orientation of Ereklé II and the arrival of the Russian army in Georgia alarmed the Khans of Moslem countries.
	www.cac-biodiversity.org /geo/geo_history.htm (14606 words)

	Georgia Today on the Web
		In 1748 King Erekle II regained the Metechi cathedral, restored and put a new dome on it.
		In May 1988 on blessings of the Cathalicos — Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II a new cross was put on it and church service was restored.
		During the reign of King Erekle II a major part of the southern wall was restored.
	www.georgiatoday.ge /article_details.php?id=593 (464 words)

	Battle of Krtsanisi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Persian castrate ruler Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar demanded from Erekle II, king of Kartl-Kakheti (eastern Georgia) to denounce the Treaty of Georgievsk with Russia and recognize the suzerainty of the Persian Shah.
		King Erekle II refused a Persian ultimatum, remaining faithful to the alliance with Russia.
		King Erekle II, 75, made a sortie with a few bodyguards and left the burning capital for the mountains to organize guerrilla warfare against the invaders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Krtsanisi (299 words)

	THE ROMANOFFS AND THE BAGRATIONS
		Whether one considers that the last emperor was Nicholas II or, as do the legitimist monarchists, that he was her father Grand Duke Wladimir, Grand Duchess Maria is clearly the sole rightful successor.
		In the late eighteenth century, King Irakly II of Georgia, an Orthodox Christian, was threatened by the Islamic rulers of Persia and Turkey.
		It is always within the authority of the head of a formerly reigning dynasty to be the final arbiter on the question of whether a marriage is equal for purposes of the dynasty’s laws.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/6517/bagrationart.html (3020 words)

	EBRAÚHÈM KòALÈL KHAN JAVAÚNˆÈR
		Together with King Erekle II of Georgia, he dominated the khanates of Erevan (q.v.), Nakòjava@n, and Ganja during much of the last quarter of the 18th century (Bournoutian, p.
		When Erekle accepted Russian protection under the 1783 Treaty of Georgievsk, Ebra@h^m was tempted by a similar offer.
		Russian preference for Georgia and the absence of a strong ruler in Persia after the death of Kar^m Khan, however, kept Ebra@h^m aloof from the Russians.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v8/v8f1/v8f1110.html (1024 words)

	Abkhazia.Org - Forum
		The temporary withdrawal of Russia from Georgia and the diminution of Russian activity throughout the Caucasus was due partly to the threat posed to the ruling class by the peasant uprising of Emelian Pugachev.
		Erekle was ready with more petitions for a Russian protectorate on condition that royal dignity be forever preserved to his descendants, that the Georgian Church remain autocephalous, that his army be subsidized, and that a Russian force be stationed in Georgia.This time Catherine was willing to negotiate.
		Erekle’s hopes of Russian protection were dashed once more when at the beginning of Catherine’s second Turkish war Russian troops withdrew from Georgia and even from some of the fortified positions farther north.
	www.abkhazia.org /discus/messages/31/32.html?MondayJanuary2120020413pm (10039 words)

	Welcome to Georgia
		Signagi town in Kakheti is enclosed by a large defensive wall built by King Erekle II in the second half of the 18th century replacing the ruins of an old fortress.
		Each of the 23 towers within the wall were named after nearby villages and respective families and served as a refuge in case of danger.
		The town, which also has preserved urban-type dwellings of the 19th century, is located on the top of the hill and presents splendid views to the Alazani Valley and the Kakhetian Caucasus.
	www.tourism.gov.ge /geo/side.php?id=28 (88 words)

	Georgia Today on the Web
		In 1742, queen Tamar, the wife of King Teimuraz II begins restoration of the cathedral ruined by the earthquake and her son Erekle II finishes the work.
		The saint parts of the queen Ketevan, who was killed with torture, were brought by the Augustan priests and buried in the cathedral by the command of Teimuraz I. In the beginning Alaverdi was a monastery for monks, but in XVIII century, a nunnery was established there.
		This ancient tradition is related to gathering harvest and is held in the name of Joseph Alaverdeli, the establisher of the cathedral.
	www.georgiatoday.ge /article_details.php?id=637 (601 words)

	Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The representative of the Bagratids of Kakhet'i, Nicholas (known in Georgia as Erekle), was a grandson of the veteran King T'eimuraz, who had recently died in Persia.
		In 1664 a pitched battle took place between the rival kings of Kakhet'i, in which Erekle was worsted and obliged to flee to Russia, where he won a distinguished position at the Court of Alexis Mikhailovich.
		Erekle, however, ruined his chances by refusing to become a Mohammedan and by producing a letter from the tsar of Russia, Fedor Alekseevich, in which it was claimed that the Georgians were vassals of Russia and that the Persians had no right to interfere with them.
	rustaveli.tripod.com /cgi-bin/langhistory.htm (6638 words)

	history
		Unable to deal effectively with the constant onslaught of the Turks, the throne was passed to Giorgi II's 16-year-old son David, known as David the Builder (1089-1125), possibly the greatest monarch in Georgian history.
		Not until the 18th century were rulers King Teimuraz II and his son Erekle II able to rebuld Georgia in its own, and not Iran's, image.
		The attempts of Irakli II and Solomon I to use Russian forces during the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774 in order to free themselves completely from Turkish and Iranian control failed, largely owing to the treacherous actions of the Russian General Totleben.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h385nis/sisco/history.html (7037 words)

	Georgians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 337 it was adopted as the state religion by the rulers of Iberia, King (later Saint) Mirian II and Queen (later Saint) Nana.
		Following the overthrow of the Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
		Since 1977 his Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II (born in 1932) has served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and Archibishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi.
	www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Georgians.html (4824 words)

	Svetitskhoveli Cathedral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 11th century the present Svetitskhoveli Cathedral was built (from 1010 to 1029) in the Cross-Dome style by the architect Arsukidze, at the invitation of the Catholicon Melkisedek of Georgia.
		The cathedral is surrounded by a wall, built of stone and brick during the reign of King Erekle II (Heraclius) in 1787.
		King Erekle II's tomb is identifiable by the sword and shield upon it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Svetitskhoveli (1664 words)

	History - Georgia - Asia
		Under Queen Tamar, whose rule straddled the 12th and 13th centuries, the Georgian kingdom reached its zenith and grew to include most of Caucasia.
		During the Great Purge (1936-1938)—a campaign of terror that served to solidify Stalin’s dictatorship—Beria collaborated with Stalin to carry out massive arrests and executions of Georgian party officials, intellectuals, and rank-and-file citizens.
		During World War II (1939-1945), Stalin ordered the deportation of entire minority groups, mainly Turkic, from Georgia and the rest of Caucasia on the assumption that they would support the invading Axis powers.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/georgia/history.htm (1942 words)

	Amazon.com: "King Erekle": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1795, Aqa Mohammad demanded that King Erekle II (Heraclius) of Georgia, a former vassal of Nader Shah, likewise recognize his suze- rainty.
		recognized the authority of the Georgian king, Erekle II (1744-1798).
		II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Richard G. Hovannisian (Editor)
	www.amazon.com /gp/phrase/ref=cap_bod_13?phrase=King-Erekle (523 words)

	Armenians in Iran (ca. 1500-1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By 1762 another ruler and dynasty, Karim Khan of Zand dynasty (1750-1779) took control of most of Iran and was recognized as their suzerain by the khans of eastern Armenia.
		His seat of power was in southern Iran, however, and Transcaucasia was left to Ibrahim Khan of Karabagh and King Erekle II (1762-1798) of eastern Georgia, both of who divided parts of eastern Armenia into two zones of influence.
		The fall of the Soviet Union, the common border with Armenia, and the Armeno-Iranian diplomatic and economic agreements have opened a new era for the Iranian Armenians.
	www.iranchamber.com /people/armenians_in_iran2.php (2657 words)

	GEORGIA
		Telavi was the center of Kakheti – Heretian kingdom from the 11th century, and it is one of the most important town in Georgia from the 12th century.
		The most ancient of them is Virgin’s Cathedral – the building of 5-6th centuries, Batonis Tsikhe, Karis Chapel – which is built in 1758, the Tower which is dated to the 17 – 19th centuries.
		The beauity of Telavi is the museum of king Erekle II and amazing planten – tree "Chadari", which is 800 years old.
	www.skiptonps.vic.edu.au /history/georgia.htm (735 words)

	World Country Guide
		This was finally completed in 1122 when the regional capital of the Caliphs, Tblisi, fell to King David II.
		But at the end of the 18th century, King Erekle II, a descendant of the Bagratids who ruled Georgia in the 12th century, forged a vital alliance with Catherine the Great of Russia, who was then presiding over the southward expansion of her empire.
		The Bagratid line was deposed by the Russians in 1801 after which the whole region was steadily absorbed into the Russian Empire.
	sites.virtuoso.com /DestinationGuides/wtg/geo/80.html (949 words)

	megzuri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Humanistic principles found perfect poetic expression in the greatest Georgian book of all times “The Night in Panther’s
		Among the heroic kings of Georgia was Erekle II(1762-1798).
		At the age of 80 he had given over 100 battles, being only defeated in the last one, and that only because of betrayal.
	megzuri.ge /georgia/history.htm (410 words)

	Diocese of Mtskheta and Tbilisi - OrthodoxWiki
		At the end of seventeenth century Catholicos-Patriarch Ioane gave the title of Metropolitan to the Bishop of Tbilisi.
		Then, in 1794, King Erekle II of Kartli and Kakheti not only agreed with this decision but he returned the previous honor to Bishop of Tbilisi.
		In the decree the King said: the "Bishop of Tbilisi had a higher place in Church at councils...
	orthodoxwiki.org /Diocese_of_Mtskheta_and_Tbilisi (731 words)

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