Vaxtang gorgasali biography wikipedia
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History - Archive of The Messenger - "King Vakhtang Gorgasali"
By The Messenger Staff
Monday, February 28, 2022Though formally a vassal of the Persians, he secured Georgias northern borders by subjugating the Caucasian mountain peoples and brought the adjacent western and southern Georgian lands under his control.
Vaxtang gorgasali biography wikipedia
The Life of Vakhtang Gorgasali states that the king was given at birth the Iranian name Varazkhosrovtang, rendered in Georgian as Vakhtang. Gorgasali is an Iranian sobriquet meaning wolfs head, which must have been bestowed on him due to the shape of the helmet he wore.
He led his people, in an ill-fated alliance with the Eastern Roman Empire, into a lengthy struggle against Sassanid Iranian hegemony which ended with his defeat and the weakening of the kingdom of Iberia. In 482 he led a general uprising against Persia and started a desperate war fo