Arian Kartli

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Arian Kartli (also: Aryan-Kartli , Georgian არიან-ქართლი ) was a historical domain that appears in the medieval Georgian chronicle " The Conversion of Kartlis " (მოქცევაჲ ქართლისაჲ, mokc'evay k'art'lisay ) and there as the original home the Georgian of Kartli (the Caucasian “Iberia” in what is now central and eastern Georgia) applies.

The Georgian Chronicle Kartlis Tskhovreba tells a legend about a campaign by Alexander the Great into the interior of Georgia. It is said that Alexander had Azoy , the son of an unnamed "King of Arian-Kartli", along with his followers to Mtskheta in Kartli. He hired him to manage Kartli. The Georgian monk Arsen , the author of a metaphorical reduction of the “Life of Saint Nino ” and teacher of King David IV. Comments on this passage as follows: “We, the Georgians, are descendants of dudes from Arian-Kartli, we speak their language and everyone The kings of Kartli are descendants of their kings. "

However, the identification of Arian Kartli based on the texts of a medieval Georgian scribe remains problematic. It seems as if this 'kingdom' existed before the conquests of Alexander the great, but a precise location, the date of foundation, or the identity of its rulers cannot be derived anywhere. The word "Arian" (noble, noble) comes from ancient Indo-European / Iranian. It suggests a connection to Indo-Aryan or Iranian peoples . Already old sources by Arian Kartli and ancient sources have located the country in the vicinity of the Achaemenid Empire . Herodotus' list of the districts of the Achaemenid Empire puts the proto-Georgian tribes in the 13th and 19th satrapy . These territories partially overlap with the southwest of historical Georgia and numerous Georgian scholars, including Giorgi Melikishvili , locate Arian Kartli there.

The early Georgian kingdom of Kartli / Iberia, which is clearly traceable in historical reports from the Hellenistic period, seems to have still had the connections to Iranian territory that have been handed down by Arian Kartli. Cyril Toumanoff equates the region with Aranē ( Greek 'Αράνη ) of Ptolemy (v.6.18) and the Harrana of the Hittites .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "We, Georgians, are descendants of the newcomers from Arian-Kartli, we speak their language and all the kings of Kartli are descendants of their kings." Giorgi L. Kavtaradze. The Interrelationship between the Transcaucasian and Anatolian Populations by the Data of the Greek and Latin Literary Sources . The Thracian World at the Crossroads of Civilizations. Reports and Summaries. The 7th International Congress of Thracology. P. Roman (ed.). Bucharest: the Romanian Institute of Thracology 1996.
  2. ^ HW Bailey. ARYA, an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. II, Fasc. 7: 681-683.
  3. ↑ a b Rapp 2003: 10.
  4. ^ Cyril Toumanoff: Studies in Christian Caucasian History. Georgetown University Press 1963: 89-90, quoted in: Rapp 2003: 269.

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