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Old October 5th, 2013 #1
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According to ethnic Circassian Caucasus specialist Amjad Jaimoukha, at least
It is certain that the Nakh constituted an important component of the Hurrian-Urartian tribes in the Trans-Caucasus and played a role in the development of their influential cultures.

It has been noted that at many points, Urartu in fact extended through Kakheti into the North Caucasus. Jaimoukha notes in his book:
The kingdom of Urartu, which was made up of several small states, flourished in the ninth and seventh centuries BCE, and extended into the North Caucasus at the peaks of its power...
The Georgian chronicles of Leonti Mroveli state that the Urartians "returned" to their homeland (i.e. Kakheti) in the Trans-Caucasus, which had become by then "Kartlian domain"
 
Old October 30th, 2013 #2
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Parnavaz the Great

Parnavaz I
ფარნავაზ I

Reign 302 BC – 237 BC
Royal House Pharnabazid Dynasty
Pharnavaz was the first king of Kartli, an ancient kingdom known as Iberia to the Classical sources.


Parnavaz descended from Uplos, son of Mtskhetos, son of Kartlos, who was one of the powerful and famous eight brothers, who from their part were descendants of Targamos (Thorgau), son of Tarsi,
the grandson of Japheth, son of the Biblical Noah. His story is saturated with legendary imagery and symbols, and it seems feasible that, as the memory of the historical facts faded, the real Parnavaz "accumulated a legendary faade" and emerged as the model pre-Christian monarch.

Parnavaz had a distinguished genealogy, tracing back to Kartlos, the mythical ethnarch of Kartli. He was first king from race of Kartlos.


His paternal uncle, Samara, held the position of mamasakhlisi ("father of the house") of the tribes around Mtskheta. Parnavaz’s mother is claimed to have been an Aryan. The entire story of Parnavaz, although written by a Christian chronicler, abounds in ancient aryan-like imagery and mystic allusions. The name "Parnavaz" is also an illustrative example with its root par- being based upon the divine radiance believed by the ancient Aryans to mark a legitimate dynast (cf. khvarenah). The dynastic tag Parnavaziani ("of/from/named for Parnavaz") is also preserved in the early Ar histories as P'arnawazean.

Parnavaz’s family is destroyed, and his heritage is usurped by Azon installed by Alexander the Great during his mythic campaign in Kartli. He is brought up fatherless, but a magic dream, in which he anoints himself with the essence of the Sun, heralds the peripeteia (turning point).


He is persuaded by this vision to "devote [himself] to noble deeds". He then sets off and goes hunting. In a pursuit of a deer, he encounters a mass of treasure stored in a hidden cave. Parnavaz retrieves the treasure and exploits it to mount a loyal army against the tyrannical Azon. He is aided by Kuji of Colchis, who eventually marries Parnavaz's sister. In the ensuing battle, Azon is defeated and killed, and Parnavaz becomes the king of Kartli at the age of twenty-seven. He is also said to have patterned his administration upon an Aryan model, and have introduced a military-administrative organization based on a network of regional governors. Parnavaz's alleged reform of the eristavi fiefdoms is most likely a back-projection of the medieval pattern of subdivision to the remote past.

Parnavaz is then reported to have embarked on social and cultural projects; he supervises two building projects: the raising of the idol Armazi – reputedly named after him – on a mountain ledge and the construction of a similarly named fortress.

Parnavaz made alliances with various North Caucasian peoples during his reign, to whom he called upon for help against both Macedonia and internal foes. He took a Dzurdzuk princess in marriage, in order to consolidate the alliance of Iberia with the Dzurdzuks, who helped him consolidate his reign against his unruly vassals, while similarly he married his sister to a Sarmatian chief.

The existence of a peculiar local form of Aramaic in pre-Christian Georgia has been archaeologically documented. Parnavaz's lengthy reign of sixty-five years. Upon his death, he was buried in front of the idol Aramzi and worshipped. His son, Saurmag, became a successor to the throne.


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Parnavaz and Arrian's Pharasmanes.
 
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