Georgian literature
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Georgian literature refers to a long literary heritage, with some of the oldest surviving texts in Georgian language dating back to the 5th century. A golden age of Georgian literature flourished unde
A 10th-century manuscript of John Zosimus in medieval Georgian patristic Nuskhuri script.
Shota Rustaveli (c. 1160 – after c. 1220), poet and author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin", a national epic poem
Poem by Teimuraz I.
Tamar I
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Tamar the Great reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age. A member of the Bagrationi dynasty, her position as the first woman to rule Georg
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…of David IV in the 11th century. However, political fragmentation and foreign invasions following a peak in literary tradition during the reign of Queen Tamar (1184–1213 CE) led to a cultural decline. The earliest known Georgian literary work, The Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik by Iakob Tsurtaveli, was…
An early 13th-century fresco of Queen Tamar from Betania Monastery
Icon of Tamar
Tamar (left) and George III (right). The earliest surviving portrait of Tamar from the church of the Dormition at Vardzia, c. 1184–1186.
Tamar as depicted on a 13th-century mural from the Kintsvisi monastery.