Atabeg
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Atabeg, Atabek, or Atabey is a hereditary title of nobility of Turkic origin, indicating a governor of a nation or province who was subordinate to a monarch and charged with raising the crown prince.
Badr al-Din Lu'lu' was atabeg for the Zengid dynasty from 1211 to 1234. Kitāb al-aghānī fronstispiece, Mosul, 1218–1219. Vol IV. Cairo, Egyptian National Library, Ms Farsi 579
Samtskhe-Saatabago
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The Samtskhe-Saatabago or Samtskhe Atabegate, also called the Principality of Samtskhe, was a Georgian feudal principality in Zemo Kartli, ruled by an atabeg of Georgia for nearly three and a half cen
Atabeg
…later used in the Kingdom of Georgia, first within the Armeno-Georgian family of Mkhargrdzeli as a military title and then within the house of Jaqeli as princes of Samtskhe. The word atabeg is a compound of the Turkic word ata, "ancestor", or "father" and the word beg or bey, "lord, leader, prince". Beg is stated in some…
A group portrait of Princes Jaqeli (from left to right: Sargis I Jaqeli (Sabas), Beka, Sargis, and Kvarkvare). Sapara monastery, 14th c
Qvarqvare I Jaqeli (r.1334–1361)
Timur's army attacks the survivors of the town of Nerges, in Samtskhe-Saatabago, in the spring of 1396. Garrett Zafarnama (c. 1480)
Portrait of Qvarqvare IV Jaqeli (1554 – 1581) from the book written by Salomon Schweigger