King Bagrat I of Abkhazia

Bagrat I King of Abkhazia from 887–898/899 Preceded by Adarnase Shavliani, Succeeded by Constantine I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagrat_I_of_Abkhazia

Bagrat I (Georgian: ბაგრატ I) was the King of Abkhazia between 887/88 and 898/99. He was the son of Demetrius II of the Anosids dynasty. After the usurper John Shavliani seized the throne Bagrat fled to Constantinople and lived there for some time until he returned to Abkhazia in 887/888, deposed and put to death Adarnase Shavliani (the son of John Shavliani) and reclaimed the throne. He was married to the daughter of Guaram Bagrationi, the ruler of Tao-Klardjeti and had a son Constantine who succeeded him to the throne of Abkhazia.

See also

Abkhazian Kingdom Divan of the Abkhazian Kings

References and further reading on the Kingdom of Abkhazia

• (English) Alexei Zverev, Ethnic Conflicts in the Caucasus 1988-1994, in B. Coppieters (ed.), Contested Borders in the Caucasus, Brussels: VUBPress, 1996
• Graham Smith, Edward A Allworth, Vivien A Law, Annette Bohr, Andrew Wilson, Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities, Cambridge University Press (September 10, 1998), ISBN 0-521-59968-7
• Encyclopaedia of Islam
• (English) Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, Aspects of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict
• S. H. Rapp, Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts, Peeters Bvba (September 25, 2003) ISBN 90-429-1318-5
• (English) Conflicting Narratives in Abkhazia and Georgia. Different Visions of the Same History and the Quest for Objectivity, an article by Levan Gigineishvili, 2003
• (English) The Role of Historiography in the Abkhazo-Georgian Conflict, an article by Seiichi Kitagawa, 1996
• (English) History of Abkhazia. Medieval Abkhazia: 620-1221 by Andrew Andersen
• Georgiy I Mirsky, G I Mirskii, On Ruins of Empire: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union (Contributions in Political Science), Greenwood Press (January 30, 1997) ISBN 0-313-30044-5
• Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition (December 1994), Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3, page 45
• Robert W. Thomson (translator), Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles: The Original Georgian Texts and Armenian Adaptation (Oxford Oriental Monographs), Oxford University Press, USA (June 27, 1996), ISBN 0-19-826373-2
• Toumanoff C., Chronology of the Kings of Abasgia and other Problems // Le Museon, 69 (1956), S. 73-90.

• (Russian) Вахушти Багратиони. История царства грузинского. Жизнь Эгриси, Абхазети или Имерети. Ч.1