Amazaspis I King of Iberia [60759]

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http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps23/ps23_136.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazaspus_I_of_Iberia


Amazasp I (Georgian : ) was a king of Iberia (Kartli , modern eastern Georgia ) whose reign is placed by the early medieval Georgian historical compendia in the 2nd century. Professor Cyril Toumanoff suggests 106-116 as the years of his reign and considers him to be the son and successor of Mithridates I of Iberia who is known from epigraphic material as a Rome 's ally.

The Georgian chronicles report Amazasp's joint, ten-years long, rule with Derok (Deruk) and make Armazi as his seat (as opposite to Derok's residence at Mtskheta ). Many modern scholars, however, consider the Iberian diarchy a pure legend and argue Amazasp was the king in his own right.[1]

References

^ Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts, p. 289. Peeters Publishers, ISBN 90-429-1318-5 .

Amazaspis married.