Episode 8.4 - David the Builder

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David became king of Georgia after it had been devastated by years of Turkish pillaging. He pushed the invaders out and restored the fortunes of his relatively new kingdom. By the time he died, Georgia neared the apex of its power, ruled most of the southern caucuses, and had entered a Golden Age.

Sources

  • Donald Rayfield, Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia

  • George Anchabadze, A History of Georgia

  • Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation

  • Cyril Toumanoff, Cambridge History

  • A.C.S. Peacock, “Georgia and the Anatolian Turks in the 12th and 13th Centuries”, Anatolian Studies

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