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is an essential historical source. It further possesses a detailed relative and absolute chronology, unparallel in hagiographic and patristic literature of Georgia. The noticeable influence of CoK on subsequent Georgian historical works proves the crucial role this work played in establishing a sense
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The Shatberdi and Chelishi codices are basically linguistically similar and nearly contemporaneous. The latter, however, contains substantial variations including a number of elaborated passages. Its narrative is longer, but somewhat disfigured orthographically and phonetically by an anonymous
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into Georgian lands down to the 7th century. Its core text, The Conversion of Kartli, from which the corpus derives its title, relates the story of proselytizing mission by St. Nino, who is also the subject of the last component of CoK, the hagiographic
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The Shatberdi codex cites some of its sources (such as "a brief account of the conversion of Kartli" by Grigol the Deacon) most of which did not survive and are otherwise unknown. Modern specialists have also proposed Pseudo-Callisthenes’ apocryphal
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copyist. Many passages of the Shatberdi Codex are more informative, but these details are probably later insertions as suggested by the occurrence of the word
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as possible sources used by the authors of CoK. The work itself was exploited and some of its components were reworked by the later Georgian authors such as
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The Shatberdi Codex, the oldest of the extant CoK manuscripts, was copied in 973 under the supervision of the monk John at the Georgian monastery of
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in Georgia where it was found in 1903, was copied in the 14th or 15th century. Following the 1975 fire at
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For all its contradictions – the elements of folklore, and religious reminiscences –
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Georgian Chronicles and the raison d'étre of the Iberian Kingdom (Caucasica II).
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Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts
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consists of two major components. The first one is conventionally known as
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Orbis Terrarum, Journal of Historical Geography of the Ancient World
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Index


Georgian
Asomtavruli
[mɔkʰtsɛvɑjkʰɑrtʰlɪsɑj]
Georgian
The Georgian Chronicles
Kartli
Classical
Iberia
Christianization of Georgians
Saint Nino
Shatberdi
Turkey
Ekvtime Taqaishvili
monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Mount Sinai
Egypt
Baghdad
toponym
Alexander romance
Alexander of Cyprus
Leontius of Ruisi
Arsenius the Metaphrast
Alexander the Great
kings
presiding princes
prelates
The Georgian Chronicles
Divan of the Abkhazian Kings

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