Kingdom of Kakheti During the Time of Levan the First

Madona  Kebadze

Madona Kebadze Associate Professor, Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University, Landa Chokhelishvili-Bachelor of History

Keywords: Kakheti, Levan the first king of Kakheti, Ertso- Tianeti, Alazani, Cheleti, Ujarma, Alexander I

Abstract

Similar to other parts of Georgia, the creation of Kakheti was resulted by a tense historical process. The traditional arrangement, agricultural development and the structure of ethnicity significantly differed from the contemporary image of Kakheti. We can single out several ‘countries’ on the territories of Kakheti setteled by some different but neighboring tribes like Kukheti- comprising upper parts of Iveri gorge and the Alazani with the neighbouring mountainous parts; Hereti – the approximate North-Western parts of contemporary Azerbaijan (old Saingilo including mountainous areas of Dagestan, Sujeti – the left coast of the Ivreri i.e. Gare Kakheti an Kambechani –the territories of Kizikhi.

The boarders of Kakheti region used to be changd periodically during the centuries under the influence of certain political events.

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