The document summarizes information about several kings of Georgia from ancient to medieval times. It discusses Pharnavaz I, who founded the first Georgian kingdom of Kartli in the 3rd century BC. It also mentions King Mirian III, who converted Georgia to Christianity in the 4th century AD. The document then provides information on King Vakhtang I who led Georgia against Sasanian Iran in the 5th-6th centuries. It briefly outlines the reigns of later kings including Bagrat III, David IV, George III, Queen Tamar the Great, and George V who helped Georgia regain strength after Mongol domination.

1. Kings of Georgia

2. Relief of King Pharnavaz I
of Iberia
Pharnavaz I (Georgian-
ფარნავაზ I) was a King of Kartli,
an ancient Georgian kingdom
known as Iberia to
the Classical sources. The
Georgian Chronicles credits him
with being the first monarch
founding the kingship of Kartli
and the Pharnavaz dynasty while
another independent
chronicles, The Conversion of
Kartli makes him the second
Georgian monarch. Based on the
medieval evidence, most scholars
locate Pharnavaz’s rule in the 3rd
century BC: 302–237

3. Mirian III of Iberia
Mirian III (Georgian- მირიან III) was
a king of Oberia or Kartli (Georgia),
contemporaneous to the Roman
emperor Constantine The
Great (r. 306–337). The founder of
the royal Chosroid dynasty.
According to the early medieval
Georgian annals and hagiography,
Mirian was the first Christian king of
Iberia, converted through the
ministry of Nino,
a Cappadocian female missionary.
He is credited with establishment
of Christianity as his kingdom's state
religion and is regarded by
the Georgian Orthodox
Church as saint and
is canonized as Saint Equal to the
Apostles King Mirian

4. Vakhtang I of Iberia
Vakhtang I Gorgasali (Georgian-ვახტანგ I
გორგასალი) (c. 439 or 443 – 502 or 522), of
the Chosroid dynasty was a king of Iberia,
natively known as Kartli (eastern Georgia) in the
second half of the 5th and first quarter of the 6th
century.
He led his people, in an ill-fated alliance with
the Byzantine Empire, into a lengthy struggle
against Sasanian Iranian hegemony, which ended
in Vakhtang's defeat and weakening of the
kingdom of Iberia. Tradition also ascribes him
reorganization of the Georgian Orthodox
Church and foundation of Tbilisi, Georgia's
modern capital.
Dating Vakhtang's reign is problematic.
Furthermore, Toumanoff identifies Vakhtang with
the Iberian king Gurgenes known from Procopius
Wars of Justinian.
Vakhtang is a subject of the 8th or 11th
century vita attributed to Juansher, which
intertwines history and legend into an epic
narrative, hyperbolizing Vakhtang's personality
and biography. This literary work has been a
primary source of Vakhtang's image as an
example warrior-king and statesman, which has
preserved in popular memory to this day.
He emerged as one of the most popular figures in
Georgia's history already in the Middle Ages and
has been canonized by the Georgian Orthodox
Church as The Holy and Right-Believing King
Vakhtang and is commemorated on November
30

5. Bagrat III of Georgia
Bagrat III (Georgian: ბაგრატ III) (c.
960 – 7 May 1014), of the Georgian
Bagrationi dynasty, was King of
Abkhazia from 978 on (as Bagrat II)
and King of Georgia from 1008 on.
He united these two titles by
dynastic inheritance and, through
conquest and diplomacy, added
more lands to his realm, effectively
becoming the first king of
the Kingdom of Georgia. Before
Bagrat was crowned as king, he had
also reigned in Kartli as co-ruler
with his father Gurgen from 976 to
978.
Bagrat oversaw the construction
of Bagrati Cathedral in Kutaisi
western Georgia, now
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

6. King David IV from Gelati
Monastery
David IV, also known as David the
Builder (Georgian-დავით
აღმაშენებელი, (1073 – 24 January
1125), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was
a king of Georgia from 1089 until his
death in 1125.
Popularly considered to be the
greatest and most successful Georgian
ruler in history and an original
architect of the Georgian Golden Age,
he succeeded in driving the Seljuk
Turks out of the country, winning the
major Battle of Didgori in 1121. His
reforms of the army and
administration enabled him to reunite
the country and bring most of the
lands of the Caucasus under Georgia’s
control. A friend of the church and a
notable promoter of Christian culture,
he was canonized by the Georgian
Orthodox Church.

7. George III, King of
Georgia. Mural from
the Betania monastery
George III (Georgian- გიორგი
III) (died 27 March 1184), of
the Bagrationi dynasty, was
the King of Georgia from 1156
to 1184. His reign was part of
what would be called
the Georgian Golden Age - a
historical period in the High
Middle Ages, during which
the Kingdom of
Georgia reached the peak of
its military power and
development. George was the
father of Queen Tamar the
Great.

8. Queen Tamar - Vardzia
fresco
Tamar the Great (Georgian: თამარი)
(c. 1160 – 18 January 1213) reigned as
the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213,
presiding over the apex of the Georgian
Golden Age. A member of the Bagrationi
dynasty, her position as the first woman
to rule Georgia in her own right was
emphasized by the title mepe ("king"),
afforded to Tamar in the medieval
Georgian sources.
Tamar was proclaimed heir and co-ruler
by her reigning father George III in 1178,
but she faced significant opposition from
the aristocracy upon her ascension to full
ruling powers after George's death.
Tamar was successful in neutralizing this
opposition and embarked on an energetic
foreign policy aided by the decline of the
hostile Seljuq Turks. Relying on a
powerful military élite, Tamar was able to
build on the successes of her
predecessors to consolidate an empire
which dominated the Caucasus until its
collapse under the Mongol attacks within
two decades after Tamar's death.

9. George V of Georgia
George V the
Brilliant (Georgian-გიორგი V
ბრწყინვალე, also translated
as the Illustrious,
or Magnificent; 1286/1289–
1346)
was King of Georgia from
1299 to 1302 and again from
1314 until his death. A flexible
and far-sighted politician, he
recovered Georgia from a
century-
long Mongol domination,
restoring the country’s
previous strength
and Christian culture.