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Edge of empires : a history of Georgia /

Rayfield, Donald, 1942-

Edge of empires : a history of Georgia / History of Georgia. Donald Rayfield. - London : Reaktion Books, 2012. - 479 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The emergence of the Kartvelians -- The origins of the kingdom of Kartli -- Conversion -- The Arab conquest -- Unification -- Davit the builder -- Demetre and Giorgi III -- Queen Tamar -- Mongol invasion -- The fractured state -- Timur Lang and the destruction of Georgia -- Fraticide -- King Teimuraz I -- Teimuraz dispossessed -- The eighteenth century -- The Russian conquest of Kartli-Kakhetia -- King Solomon's end -- Vice-regency -- Reaction and revolution -- Independence -- Soviet annexation -- After Stalin -- Independence restored.

9781780230306 1780230303


Georgia (Republic)--History.

DK675.4 / .R39 2012

947.58

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