Kartlos from The Georgian Chronicles (King Vakhtang VI redaction), 1700s.[1]
Kartlos (Georgian: ქართლოსი) is the legendary progenitor and "father of all Georgians"[2] in the Georgian mythology, more specifically of the nation of Kartli, known as the Kingdom of Iberia in the classical antiquity. Kartlos is a legendary figure originating in Georgian Christian mythology, recounted in the medieval Georgian Chronicles. He was a descendant of Japheth, second son of Targamos (i.e. Togarmah), the common ancestor of the Caucasians, and Kartlos, himself becoming the patriarch of the Georgians. According to the myth, he controled a large territory in the Caucasus and participated, with his brothers, in a war to free himself from the domination of a giant and Titan king[3]Nebrot (i.e. Nimrod).[4]
While Kartlos is only a mythological figure, his story has been explained by modern historiography for many reasons, whether political, ethnological, or religious. Even though, Kartlos is not styled as mepe (i.e. king), his activities and powers anticipate those of the first pre-Christian Georgian kings.[5] According to a chronicle, Kartlos would establish Kartli prior to the foundation of Rome,[6] a polity, that will dominate and define the national Georgian experience, tracing its ascendancy in the early Hellenistic age, soon after the death of Alexander the Great.[7]
The Moktsevay Kartlisay chronicle and an early medieval Georgian Church clerics, notably, Arsen of Iqalto, would actively ignore and omit Kartlos, alongside Ancient Hebrews.[8]
Arsen of Iqalto, would actively ignore and omit Kartlos, alongside Ancient Hebrews. The myth of Kartlos is part of the Christian mythology, a series of...
Armazi), a name which generalized to the country ruled by Kartlos and his progeny. Kartlos seems to be a medieval contrivance and his being the eponymous...
Movakos, Lekos (referred to as the ancestor of Lezgic peoples), Heros, Kartlos (known to be ancestor of Georgian people), and Egros. Caucas' descendant...
Imereti region Temur Shashiashvili, leader of the Lawyers of Georgia Party Kartlos Garibashvili, one of the leaders of the political organization Mdzleveli...
of Thargamos, inherited Mount Ararat and founded the Armenian nation. Kartlos (ქართლოსი) - settled in north-east from Ararat, founder of Kartli (Sa'kartvelo)...
The Georgian Chronicles, Mtskheta was founded by Mtskhetos, the son of Kartlos, eponymous ancestor of the Georgians. The wall around the city was built...
its foundation to the mythical Uplos, son of Mtskhetos, and grandson of Kartlos. The earliest traces of human presence in Uplistsikhe date back to the...
royal annals, Pharnavaz descended from Uplos, son of Mtskhetos, son of Kartlos, who was one of the powerful and famous eight brothers, who from their...
the capital. According to The Georgian Chronicles he was a descendant of Kartlos, the eponymous ancestor of the Georgians. His brother, whose name is not...
to The Georgian Chronicles, the ancestor of the Kartvelian people was Kartlos, the great-grandson of the Biblical Japheth. However, scholars agree that...
his work "Georgian Chronicles" connects the foundation of the city to Kartlos, the eponymous ancestor of Georgians, whose wife had founded a town along...
are located in Rustavi and Marneuli. The industrial production of Kvemo Kartlo comprises 20% of the global Georgian production. Kvemo Kartli inherited...
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