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was, however, murdered in 1747, and his empire became engulf into complete chaos. The rulers of Kartli and
Kakheti took advantage of the situation and expelled all Persian garrisons from their kingdoms. From 1749 to 1750, they checked several attempts of Persian pretenders to create their powerbase in the eastern
550:(born 1696), who died on April 12, 1746. The same year, on August 19, Teimuraz married his third wife, Ana-Khanum (1716 — March 1788), daughter of Prince Bejan Palavankhosroshvili-Baratashvili, and former wife of Prince Kaikhosro Tsitsishvili. He had two sons and four daughters by his second and third marriages.
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As their influence grew, Teimuraz and Erekle quickly withdrew their loyalty to the
Persian suzerainty. In response, Nader Shah dispatched 30,000 Persian troops to Georgia and appointed a converted Georgian, Amilakhvari, who had previously opposed Persian rule, to lead the punitive campaign. The shah
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in 1752, but nothing came of this mission. In 1760, he visited the
Russian court himself to gain a support for his project of a Georgian expedition to Persia to put a Russian candidate on the shah’s throne. The Russians were too preoccupied with the
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Teimuraz married three times. He divorced his first wife, a daughter of Duke Baadur of the Aragvi, probably called Tamar, in 1711. Two years later, on
February 2, 1712, he remarried Vakhtang VI's daughter
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Although he was constantly at war or on guard, Teimuraz found some time to translate from
Persian and compose, virtually on horseback, his own poems and lyrics.
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Teimuraz's Muslim nephew
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in 1762, but the marriage was disrupted for political reasons in 1765 and
Elisabed was given in marriage, on November 16, 1765, to
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the Georgian marchlands, but without complete success.
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Iranian-Georgian Relations in the 16th- 19th Centuries
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533:Tomb of King Teimuraz II in Astrakhan.
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669:Hitchins, Keith (1998). "EREKLE II".
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266:Heraclius I of Kakheti
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709:Encyclopædia Iranica
574:of Iran (1719–1749).
442:on October 1, 1745.
681:Suny, Ronald Grigor
675:. pp. 541–542.
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500:Elizabeth of Russia
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989:(1478–1762)
952:Alexander V
855:(1463–1810)
842:(1463–1810)
790:(1744–1746)
601:Amilakhvari
504:Vakhtang VI
464:Nakhichevan
369:Constantine
318:თეიმურაზ II
309:Teimuraz II
144:(1744–1746)
93:Predecessor
33:Teimuraz II
1252:Categories
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1169:Teimuraz I
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1041:Bagrat VII
1036:Luarsab II
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756:1732–1744
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76:Coronation
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563:Princess
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468:Dagestani
432:Christian
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156:1680/1700
128:Successor
123:1744–1762
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1046:Simon II
1031:George X
1021:David XI
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967:Teimuraz
922:George V
902:Bagrat V
836:Triarchy
683:(1994).
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483:Caucasus
452:khanates
440:Mtskheta
424:Ottomans
418:and the
408:in India
383:invaded
365:David II
361:Erekle I
325:, was a
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283:Religion
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138:Co-ruler
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1016:Simon I
1001:David X
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