The unified medieval Georgian monarchy, formed in 1008 from the union of the Kingdoms of the Iberians and Abkhazia, reaching its Golden Age under David IV the Builder and Queen Tamar the Great (11th-13th centuries) as the preeminent Christian power of the Caucasus, with a network of tributaries from the Black Sea to the frontiers of Iran. Survived Mongol invasion and re-asserted sovereignty by the 1340s before Timurid invasions and Ottoman/Byzantine collapse fractured it by the late 15th century.
Fractured into anarchy by 1466 and formally partitioned into the successor kingdoms of Kartli, Kakheti, and Imereti by 1490, ending the unified Georgian monarchy founded in 1008.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kingdom of Georgia — the shape you scrub through changes in 1008 · 1150 · 1240.
The standard modern English-language full narrative history of Georgia, covering the Bagrationi kingdom's Golden Age under David IV and Tamar in depth.
A widely cited scholarly synthesis of Georgian national history from the medieval kingdom through the modern era, verified via Open Library.