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Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II (Georgian: ერეკლე II) and The Little Kakhetian (Georgian: პატარა კახი [pʼatʼaɾa kʼaχi]; 7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 [according to C. Toumanoff] – 11 January 1798), was a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798.
- 8 January 1762 – 11 January 1798
- Tamar of Kartli
The last great Georgian king died on this day in 1798. His name was Erekle II in Georgian (in Russian Irakly II, and in Latin Heraclius II, which are all different versions of the same name, Heraclius). By the time of birth Heraclius II was about the same age as Mozart’s father, Leopold, and only a few years older than Giacomo Casanova and ...
Darejan was a daughter of Prince Katsia-Giorgi Dadiani, a younger son of Bezhan Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia in western Georgia. She was only 12 years old in 1750, when Heraclius, then reigning in Kakheti, chose her as his third wife, a year after his second wife, Princess Ana Abashidze, died. The marriage was negotiated on Heraclius's behalf ...
- Katsia-Giorgi Dadiani
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Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II and The Little Kakhetian, was a Georgian monarch (mepe) of the Bagrationi dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798. In the contemporary Persian sources he is referred to as Erekli Khan, while Russians knew him as Irakly (Ираклий). Heraclius is the Latinized form of his name.
Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II (Georgian: ერეკლე II) and The Little Kakhetian (Georgian: პატარა კახი [pʼatʼaɾa kʼaχi]; 7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 [according to C. Toumanoff] – 11 January 1798), was a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762 ...
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Levan or Leon ( Georgian: ლევანი, ლეონი; 2 February 1756 – 5 February 1781) was a Georgian royal prince ( batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty, born to King Heraclius II and Queen Darejan Dadiani. His career flourished in the 1770s, when he was an ambassador to the Russian Empire and then an army commander. Levan was ...
The Latinized form, Heraclius, is frequently used, given that both names Erekle and Irakli are Georgian versions of this Greek name. Today, the statue of King Erekle II in Telavi stands not only as a monument to a great leader but also as a reminder of Georgia's rich and complex history.
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