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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]
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).
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]
Colchis was a scene of the protracted rivalry between the Eastern Roman/Byzantine and Sassanid empires, culminating in the Lazic War from 542 to 562. [4] "Pompey's Bridge" was built in Georgia by the Roman legionaries of Pompey
Imereti, Georgia. Lazic War Byzantine Empire Lazica: Sassanid Empire: Victory 550 Battle of Phasis [10] Imereti, Georgia. Lazic War Byzantine Empire Lazica: Sassanid Empire: Victory 551 Battle of Archaepolis [11] Nokalakevi, Mingrelia, Georgia. Lazic War Byzantine Empire Lazica: Sassanid Empire: Victory 551 Siege of Petra [12] Tsikhisdziri ...
Early states in present-day Georgia, c. 600 to 150 BC. Iberia (Georgian: იბერია, Latin: Iberia and Greek: Ἰβηρία), also known as Iveria (Georgian: ივერია), was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the Georgian kingdom of Kartli [1] (4th century BC – 5th century AD), corresponding roughly to east and south present-day Georgia.
An EU-commissioned report published in 2009 said that Georgia triggered the war when it attacked South Ossetia's Tskhinvali with heavy artillery on the night of Aug. 7 to Aug. 8, 2008. Russia ...
Gubazes II (Georgian: გუბაზ II, Greek: Γουβάζης) was king of Lazica (modern western Georgia) from circa 541 until his assassination in 555.He was one of the central personalities of the Lazic War (541–562).