In Greco-Roman geography, Iberia was the name for a kingdom of the Southern Caucasus, focused on present-day Eastern Georgia. Around the first hundreds of years BC and AD the area south of the Greater Caucasus and north of the Lesser Caucasus was separated between Colchis in the west, Caucasian Iberia in the inside and Caucasian Albania in the east. Toward the southwest was Armenia and toward the southeast Atropatene. Iberia, likewise referred to in Georgian as Kartli, after its center area, was amid Classical Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages a critical state in the Caucasus, either as a free state or as a ward of bigger domains, quite the Sassanid and Roman realms. Its populace, known as the Caucasian Iberians, framed the core of the Georgians (Kartvelians), and the state, together wit
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| - In Greco-Roman geography, Iberia was the name for a kingdom of the Southern Caucasus, focused on present-day Eastern Georgia. Around the first hundreds of years BC and AD the area south of the Greater Caucasus and north of the Lesser Caucasus was separated between Colchis in the west, Caucasian Iberia in the inside and Caucasian Albania in the east. Toward the southwest was Armenia and toward the southeast Atropatene. Iberia, likewise referred to in Georgian as Kartli, after its center area, was amid Classical Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages a critical state in the Caucasus, either as a free state or as a ward of bigger domains, quite the Sassanid and Roman realms. Its populace, known as the Caucasian Iberians, framed the core of the Georgians (Kartvelians), and the state, together wit
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| - In Greco-Roman geography, Iberia was the name for a kingdom of the Southern Caucasus, focused on present-day Eastern Georgia. Around the first hundreds of years BC and AD the area south of the Greater Caucasus and north of the Lesser Caucasus was separated between Colchis in the west, Caucasian Iberia in the inside and Caucasian Albania in the east. Toward the southwest was Armenia and toward the southeast Atropatene. Iberia, likewise referred to in Georgian as Kartli, after its center area, was amid Classical Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages a critical state in the Caucasus, either as a free state or as a ward of bigger domains, quite the Sassanid and Roman realms. Its populace, known as the Caucasian Iberians, framed the core of the Georgians (Kartvelians), and the state, together with Colchis to its west, would shape the core of the medieval Kingdom of Georgia.
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