Kingdom of Eastern Georgia | |||||||||
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| 1256–1329 | |||||||||
 Flag of Georgia in the 14th centuries[1] | |||||||||
 Map of fragmented Kingdom of Georgia in 1311, with the Western Kingdom of Georgia in purple, and the Eastern Kingdom of Georgia in grey | |||||||||
| Capital | Tbilisi | ||||||||
| Common languages | Middle Georgian | ||||||||
| Religion | Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Georgian Patriarchate) | ||||||||
| Government | Feudal monarchy, Il-Khanid administrative regions Tumans.[2] | ||||||||
• 1247–1270 | David VII | ||||||||
• 1270–1289 | Demetrius II | ||||||||
• 1289–1292 | Vakhtang II | ||||||||
• 1292–1302 | David VIII | ||||||||
• 1302–1308 | Vakhtang III | ||||||||
• 1308–1311 | David VIII | ||||||||
• 1311–1313 | George VI | ||||||||
• 1314–1346 | George V | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Middle Ages | ||||||||
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The Kingdom of Eastern Georgia[3][4] (Georgian: აღმოსავლეთ საქართველოს სამეფო, romanized: aghmosavlet sakartvelos samepo) was the official prolongation of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1256 to 1329. Its rule was limited to the geographical areas of central and eastern Georgia, while the western part of the country temporarily seceded to form the Kingdom of Western Georgia under its own line of kings. The secession followed a transitional period when the rule of the Kingdom of Georgia was jointly assumed by the cousins David VI and David VII from 1246 to 1256. The entity split into two parts when David VI, revolting from the Mongol hegemony, seceded in the western half of the kingdom and formed the Kingdom of Western Georgia in 1256. David VII was relegated to the rule of Eastern Georgia. During his reign, Eastern Georgia went into further decline under the Mongol overlordship.
- ^ Georgia: Historical flags, 5th-18th centuries
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As Bryer has demonstrated, in the 1270s Michael VIII Palaiologos was in alliance with the Īlkhānid state, the Western Georgian kingdom and, from time to time, with the Papacy against Charles of Anjou and his allies (the Mamluk Sultanate, the Empire of Trebizond, and the Kingdom of Eastern Georgia).