Arsacids (Iberia)

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The dynasty of the Iberian Arsakids ( Georgian : არშაკიანი Aršakiani , or არშაკუნიანი, Aršakuniani ) was a sideline of the eponymous Parthian Arsacids , who ruled in the ancient Georgian kingdom of Iberia from approx. 189 to 284 and were then followed by the Chosroid dynasty.

history

After the Arsacids under Vologaeses V (ruled 180-191) had consolidated their rule over the Armenian throne in 180, they got the opportunity to interfere in Iberia. According to the medieval Georgian chronicles, the king of Armenia , whom Professor Cyril Toumanoff equated with Vologases II, helped the rebellious nobles in Iberia to overthrow his brother-in-law, the last ruler of the Parnavasids, Amazasp II, and him through his own son Rew I, whose Rule from 189 to 216 to replace the Arsakid dynasty in Iberia.

The Arsacids were overthrown in their country of origin in 226 by the more powerful and dynamic Sassanid dynasty, even though the Arsacids also owned three other Caucasian empires (Armenia, Iberia and Albania ) with Iran . Although the later Georgian chronicles tell of this change of power, the contributions to the period concerned are full of anachronisms and semi-legendary allusions that provide little or no details of the effect of the Iranian resurrection on the Iberian Arsacids. What is known about the period comes from classical sources as well as from Sassanid inscriptions.

By replacing the weak, more federally oriented Parthian Empire with a strong and centralized state, the Sassanids changed the political orientation of pre-Roman Iberia and reduced it to a dependent vassal state. Shapur I (r. 242-272) set his vassal Amazaspus III. (r. 260-265) to the throne of Iberia, possibly as rivals or anti-king to Mihrdat II. With the death of Aspagur II. in the year 284 died from the line of Iberian Arsacid, and Sassanid used a civil war in the Roman Empire from to her candidate Mirian III. from the dynasty of the Chosroids on the throne.

The rulers of the Arsacids

Surname Reg. Time
Rew I. 189-216
Vache 216-234
Bakur I. 234-249
Mirdat II. 249-269
Amazasp III. 260-265
Aspagur I. 265-284

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Stephen H. Rapp: Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography. Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts (= Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium . Subsidia. Vol. 113 = Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. Vol. 601). Peeters, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-429-1318-5 , pp. 292-294.
  2. ^ Ronald Grigor Suny: The Making of the Georgian Nation. 2nd Edition. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN et al. 1994, ISBN 0-253-20915-3 , p. 15.

literature

  • Giorgi Melikishvili et al .: საქართველოს ისტორიის ნარკვევები. ( Studies in the History of Georgia ). Volume 1 . Sabch'ota Sakartvelo, Tbilisi 1970.