The Iranian prince that made Christianity the state religion of Georgia

[Truthbetold]

Mirian III, from the Iranian princely House of Mihran. Installed by the Sasanians on the puppet throne of the Kingdom of Caucasian Iberia (present-day Eastern Georgia, i.e. Kartli/Kakheti), he declared Christianity the official religion of the Kingdom in the early 4th century AD. Mirian III was thus the founder of the so-called Chosroid dynasty, also known as the Iberian Mihranids. This Georgian dynasty of Iranian origin ruled the most important part of Georgia (Kartli, Kakheti) as Sasanian vassals into the 6th century. In 580, the Sasanians abolished the Caucasian Iberian kingship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirian_III_of_Iberia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosroid_dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Mihran

[StonyArabia]

I believe it's a Parthian family that also adopted Christianity in Armenia lol

[Truthbetold]

I believe it's a Parthian family that also adopted Christianity in Armenia lol

Yes family was of Parthian Iranian origin and held high prestige in Sasanian court (so called "seven Parthian clans"). Armenia was Christianized by a branch of the Arsacid (Parthian) dynasty that ruled in Iran

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsa...sty_of_Armenia

Modern-day georgians often vehemently try to deny or belittle their millennia old intertwined history with Iran and Anatolia (pre- and post-Turkic) and often pose themselves as "muh eastern Greeks" and "muh eastern italians". Lol. They always say we Azeris are Iranians in every sense of the word, but they deliberately try to conceal the fact that Georgians received massive Iranian influence as well, until the coming of the Russky's.

[user_]

They always say we Azeris are Iranians in every sense of the word, but they deliberately try to conceal the fact that Georgians received massive Iranian influence as well, until the coming of the Russky's.

Only some parts of Eastern Georgia, mostly Tbilisi. Western Georgia has never seen Iranians. Today's Georgians 70% are from Western Georgia, we do not feel any connections with Iran.

[Myanthropologies]

yas

[user_]

Orthodox Christianity came to Georgia from Byzantium, not from Persian Empire

[StonyArabia]

Orthodox Christianity came to Georgia from Byzantium, not from Persian Empire

Yes, but the Persian Prince was the one who made you Christian, just like the Armenians were Christianized by a Persian/Parthian prince. Georgians and Armenians have strong ties with Iran, only recently this has changed.

[user_]

Yes, but the Persian Prince was the one who made you Christian, just like the Armenians were Christianized by a Persian/Parthian prince. Georgians and Armenians have strong ties with Iran, only recently this has changed.

He was Persian by blood, by mentality he was Georgian. That is why Mirian choose Christian Byzantium over Sassanid Iran.
Stalin was Georgian and the most powerful Russian lieder of all the times, do you think he changed Russian ethnogenesis and Russians became "georgianised"?

[Bobby Martnen]

[Truthbetold]

Only some parts of Eastern Georgia, mostly Tbilisi. Western Georgia has never seen Iranians. Today's Georgians 70% are from Western Georgia, we do not feel any connections with Iran.

And yet Eastern Georgia (Kartli, Kakheti) was the most dominant part of Georgia politically and historically in the past 2,000 + years lol