Episode 8.5 - Tamar the Great

Tamar the Great built on the legacy of her great grandfather David the Builder. Under her rule, Georgia grew to its largest geographic extent, held off enemies and conquered new lands. Culture flourished under her rule, leading many to consider it the peak of Georgia’s 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

Names Mentioned

• Alexios I Komnenos of Trebizond

• David Soslan

• George IV

• Jalal al-Din

• Rusudan

• Yuri Bogolyubsky