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It is believed that the destruction of free trade and the introduction of a monopoly by the Romans in Lazica was one of the reasons for the Lazic war. [15] The primary currency used in Lazica for trade was the Roman Antoninianus until the 4th century. Afterwards it was replaced by the Byzantine Solidus. [16]
Map of Lazica and surrounding regions in Late Antiquity Cyril Toumanoff's tentative reconstruction of the family tree of the kings of Lazica.. Opsites (Georgian: ოფსიტე) is the name twice mentioned by the 6th-century AD Eastern Roman historian Procopius in his De Bellis, while recounting the events related to the Lazic War (541–562) fought between the Eastern Roman and Sassanid ...
Petra (Greek: Πέτρα) was a fortified town on the eastern Black Sea coast, in Lazica in what is now western Georgia.In the 6th century, under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, it served as an important Eastern Roman outpost in the Caucasus and, due to its strategic location, became a battleground of the 541–562 Lazic War between Rome and Sasanian Persia (Iran).
The Lazic War lasted for twenty years, from 541 to 562, and ended with the Fifty-Year Peace Treaty, which obligated the Byzantine Empire to pay tribute to Persia each year for the recognition of Lazica as a Byzantine vassal state by Persians. The Lazic War is narrated in detail in the works of Procopius and Agathias. [2]
Map of the Byzantine–Sasanian frontier in 565. In 541 AD, the small but strategic region of Lazica became the new battlefield of the Roman–Persian Wars.. In 541 AD, the Sasanian King of Kings Khosrow I led a campaign to dominate the strategic country of Lazica on the eastern shore of the Black Sea with the aid of the Lazic king Gubazes II, who had been alienated by the Byzantines under ...
The siege of Phasis took place in 555–556 during the Lazic War between the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires. Expecting an easy victory, the Persians besieged the town of Phasis in Lazica, held by the Byzantines, but were defeated in the ensuing irregular battle. The main source for the siege is the 6th-century historian Agathias. [2]
This provided an opportunity for a high-ranking Lazic noble named Terdetes, who had quarreled with Gubazes, to betray to the Persians Tzibile, an important fort in the land of the Apsili, a tribe under Lazic suzerainty. The Apsili retook the fort, but refused to accept Lazic rule until persuaded to do so by the Byzantine general John Guzes. [12]
Tzath I (Georgian: წათე), Tzathius or Tzathios (Greek: Τζάθιος) in Byzantine sources, was king of Lazica (western Georgia) from 521/522 to an unknown date.He rejected Sassanid Persian overlordship and turned to the Byzantine emperor Justin I (r. 518–527) for aid.