The continuing rivalry between Constantinople and Ctesiphon…

591 CE

The continuing rivalry between Constantinople and Ctesiphon for supremacy in the Caucasus, and the next unsuccessful insurrection (523) of the Georgians under Gurgen, had had severe consequences for Iberia.

Thereafter, the king of Iberia had only nominal power, while the country was effectively ruled by the Persians.

In 580, Hormizd IV had abolished the monarchy after the death of King Bakur III, and Iberia had become a Persian province ruled by a marzpan (governor).

Georgian nobles had urged the Byzantine emperor Maurice to revive the kingdom of Iberia in 582.

The emperor had sent Guaram I of Iberia, Georgian prince in exile, to the city of Mtskheta in 588.

Guaram had restored the monarchy and had been bestowed with the imperial court title of curopalates, but in 591 Constantinople and Ctesiphon agree to divide Iberia between them most of the Kingdom of Iberia, including the cities of Ardahan, …

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