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40: 175: 746:(r. 159–109 BC), of the Nimrodids. The Nimrodids, in Georgian Nebrot'iani (ნებროთიანი), which means the "race of Nimrod", is not a dynastic name but the term applied by the medieval Georgian annalists to the ancient Iranians. Hence, the dynasty, although in the female line only, continues to be called by the chronicles as P’arnavaziani ("Second Pharnabazid" as suggested by Toumanoff). 695:
14; probably the early 5th century), is an acknowledgment that a king named Pharnavaz was understood to have been the founder of a Georgian dynasty. It seems more feasible that as the memory of the historical facts faded, the real Pharnavaz "accumulated a legendary façade" and emerged as the model
646:. Their rule lasted, with intermissions, from the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD. The main male line is reported to have become extinct early on and followed by houses related to it in the female line. By the close of the 2nd century AD, the Pharnavazid rule came to an end and the 682:
to govern the country. Pharnavaz, whose story is saturated with legendary imagery and symbols, is not attested directly in non-Georgian sources and there is not definite contemporary indication that he was the first of the Georgian kings. However, the Georgian dynastic tag Parnavaziani
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had consolidated their hold over Armenia in the 2nd century AD, their branch replaced the Pharnabazids in Iberia. According to the Georgian chronicles, this happened when the nobles staged a revolt against
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hegemony. However, Iberia succeeded in detaching itself from the Roman dominion in the last decade of the 1st century BC and emerged as a more powerful state in the 1st century AD.
840:(r. 180–191), who is reported to have been married to Amazasp's sister, deposed and killed their monarch. Vologases installed his son and Amazasp's nephew, 1206: 742:
234–159 BC), is reported to have died without a male heir, and the dynasty survived in the female line through the marriage of Saurmag's daughter to
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whose ascendancy in Iberia lasted from 90 to 30 BC when the Pharnabazids were able to resume the throne. By that time, the
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suggests 284–219 BC as the years of Pharnavaz's reign. However, all these dates remain largely speculative. Rapp, p. 274.
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Although Alexander's expedition into the Georgian lands is entirely fictional, Georgian and
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evidence suggests that the kings of Iberia cultivated close relations with the
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Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts
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Pharnavaz is supposed by Toumanoff to have ruled from 299 to 234 BC. His son,
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Die Könige der Parnawasiden. Georgien in der Weltgeschichte.
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successor to Alexander's short-lived empire centered on
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has implied, their overlords in holding in check the
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Index

Pharnavazid

Claw
throne
Mount Bagineti
Georgian National Museum
Tbilisi
Kingdom of Iberia
Colchis
Kingdom of Armenia
Pharnavaz I
Amazasp II
Aspacures I
Style(s)
Style of the Georgian sovereign
Kingdom of Iberia
Arsacid dynasty of Iberia
a series
History of Georgia

Prehistoric Georgia
Shulaveri–Shomu culture
Kura–Araxes culture
Legend of Kartlos
Trialeti culture
Colchian culture
Diauehi
Mushki
Ancient history
Colchis

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