Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Kingdom of Imereti
drawn on the map 1468–1578, 1612–1810
Kingdom of Imereti (western Georgia, capital Kutaisi), separated from the Persian-facing east and turned toward the Black Sea, became an Ottoman vassal (from 29 May 1555) and contained the semi-independent principalities of Mingrelia, Guria, and Abkhazia. Its first king was Bagrat II (r. 1463–1478).
- Shown on the map
- 1468–1578, 1612–1810 (2 periods)
- Peak area
- 12k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Kingdom of Imereti (western Georgia, capital Kutaisi), separated from the Persian-facing east and turned toward the Black Sea, became an Ottoman vassal (from 29 May 1555) and contained the semi-independent principalities of Mingrelia, Guria, and Abkhazia. Its first king was Bagrat II (r. 1463–1478). It was chronically weakened by feudal strife. Imereti was annexed by Russia in 1810 after the resistance of its last king, Solomon II (who died in Ottoman exile at Trabzon in 1815).
Common questions
- What was the Kingdom of Imereti?
- Kingdom of Imereti (western Georgia, capital Kutaisi), separated from the Persian-facing east and turned toward the Black Sea, became an Ottoman vassal (from 29 May 1555) and contained the semi-independent principalities of Mingrelia, Guria, and Abkhazia. Its first king was Bagrat II (r. 1463–1478).
- When is the Kingdom of Imereti shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Kingdom of Imereti 1468–1578, 1612–1810, in 2 separate periods. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Kingdom of Imereti?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Kingdom of Imereti covered about 12,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each beylik, khanate and principality as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and academic sources (the Baku Presidential Library on the Shirvanshahs, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Armenian Genocide) and the historiography of early Ottoman state formation (Wittek, Lindner, Kafadar, Lowry). The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Kingdom of Imereti en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Imereti
This entry was last updated .
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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