Aghsartan I (Georgian: აღსართან I) (died 1084) was a king of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1054 until his death in 1084. Georgian (ka ქართული ენა kartuli ena) is the Official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus. Kakheti is the easternmost region of Georgia. It was an independent feudal monarchy since the fall of the early Georgian kingdom of Iberia c Kakheti ( Georgian: კახეთი is a province in Eastern Georgia. Georgia ( საქართველო, Sakartvelo) is a Transcontinental country in the Caucasus region situated at the dividing line between
He succeeded on the death of his father Gagik of Kakheti. Gagik (გაგიკი (died 1058 was a king of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1039 to 1058 His reign coincided with the Seljuk invasions in the Georgian lands and persistent attempts by the Georgian Bagratid kings to bring all Georgian polities into their unified realm. The Seljuq (also Seljuq Turks, Seldjuks, Seldjuqs, Seljuks; in Turkish Selçuklular; in Ṣaljūqīyān; in Origins See also Origin of the Bagratid dynasties According to a family legend taken down by the eleventh-century Georgian chronicler Sumbat Davitis-Dze In 1068, Aghsartan submitted to the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan, agreed to pay tribute, and secured the Turkish support against King Bagrat IV of Georgia who had seized part of the Kakhetian territory. Alp Arslan (1029 &ndash December 15, 1072) was the second sultan of the Seljuk dynasty and great-grandson of Seljuk, the Eponym of Bagrat IV (ბაგრატ IV (1018 – November 24, 1072) of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the King of Georgia from 1027 to 1072 He continued his struggle against the centralizing policy of the Georgian crown under Bagrat’s successor George II and allied himself with the rebellious Liparitid clan, but then transferred his loyalty to George and helped him counter the feudal opposition, and then fight the 1074 invasion by the Seljuk sultan Malik Shah I. George II (გიორგი II Giorgi II) (c 1054 – 1112 of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Georgia from 1072 to 1089 The Liparitids (ლიპარიტები also known as Baghuashi (ბაღჳაში were a noble house ( Didebuli) in medieval Georgia Jalāl al-Dawlah Mālikshāh or simply Malik Shah ( Persian: fa ملكشاه Turkish: Melikşah) (died 1092 was the However, when George II made peace with the sultan early in the 1080s, the latter recognized the king of Georgia as the only legitimate master of Kakheti and gave him a Seljuk force to conquer the region. George, at the head of a combined Georgian-Seljuk army, laid a siege to the Kakhetian fortress of Vezhini, but failed to take it and withdrew. Aghsartan immediately seized the opportunity to pledge his loyalty to the Seljuks, went to Malik Shah and embraced Islam, thus winning a Seljuk protection against the aspirations of the king of Georgia. For other meanings including people named 'Islam' see Islam (disambiguation. He died in 1084, and was succeeded by his son Kvirike IV. Kvirike IV (კვირიკე IV (died 1102 was a king of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1084 to 1102
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- Toumanoff, Cyrille (1976, Rome). Prince Cyril Toumanoff (born Toumanishvili) (1913 – 1997 was a historian and genealogist of Georgian origin who mostly specialized in the history of medieval Manuel de Généalogie et de Chronologie pour le Caucase chrétien (Arménie, Géorgie, Albanie).
- Вахушти Багратиони. Vakhushti (ვახუშტი (1696-1757 was a Georgian prince ( Batonishvili) geographer historian and cartographer История царства грузинского. Возникновение и жизнь Кахети и Эрети. Ч.1.
| Preceded by Gagik |
Prince of Kakheti 1058-1084 |
Succeeded by Kvirike IV |
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