THE RISE OF MEDIEVAL GEORGIAN MONASTICISM – ST. GREGORY OF KHANDZTA
In 813, the Presiding Prince Ashot I Curopolate fled the Arab oppression in Tbilisi and went to the southern Georgian province of Klarjeti. There, he established the new principality of Tao-Klarjeti. This principality played a crucial role in the history of Georgia during the ninth and tenth centuries, although Prince Ashot was not the first […]
