Simon I the Great (Georgian: სიმონ I დიდი, romanized:simon I didi), also known as Svimon (Georgian: სვიმონი, romanized:svimoni; c. 1537 – 1611), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a Georgian king of Kartli from 1556 to 1569 and again from 1578 to 1599. His first tenure was marked by war against the Persian domination of Georgia. In 1569 he was captured by the Persians, and spent nine years in captivity. In 1578 he was released and reinstalled in Kartli. During this period (i.e. his second tenure), he fought as a Persian subject against the Ottoman domination of Georgia.[1][2] In 1599 Simon I was captured by the Ottomans and died in captivity.[1] During 1557 to 1569 he was known as Mahmud Khan (Persian: محمود خان, romanized: Mahmūd Khān) and from 1578 to 1599 as Shahnavaz Khan (Persian: شاهنواز خان, romanized: Shāhnavāz Khān). He was also referred to as Simon the Mad (Turkish: Deli Simon) by the Ottomans.[3]
^ abRota 2017, p. 53.
^Rayfield 2012, p. 176.
^Bilge, M. Sadık (2005) Osmanlı Devleti ve Kafkasya: Osmanlı varlığı döneminde Kafkasya'nın siyasî-askerî tarihi ve idarî taksimâtı, 1454-1829 ISBN 978-975-6372-15-9, p. 206
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Persian-appointed king (actually, khan) ofKartli, eastern Georgia, from 1619 to 1630/1631. A son of Bagrat Khan, Simon was a Georgian convert to Islam. He...
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daut-khani; died c. 1579) was King ofKartli. A convert to Islam, he was appointed as Khan ofKartli by the Persian Shah Tahmasp I from 1562 (effectively from...
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Battle of Digomi (Georgian: დიღმის ბრძოლა) was part of a campaign launched by the Georgian king SimonIofKartli aimed at the liberation of the capital...
The Kingdom ofKartli (Georgian: ქართლის სამეფო, romanized: kartlis samepo) was a late medieval/early modern monarchy in eastern Georgia, centred on the...
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invasion led by King SimonIofKartli, who sought to reunite all of Georgia under his aegis, and secured his protégé Rostom on the throne of Imereti, thereby...
detachments to his son-in-law SimonIofKartli against the Qizilbashes in the 1560s. Alexander II, the astute son of the previous King, continued Levan's...
Janissaries in 1622. The last Emperor of Trebizond David Megas Komnenos, King SimonIofKartli, and a number of leading Ottoman pashas were also among...
to Erekle, son of Bagrat Mukhran-Batoni, 1st Prince of Mukhrani. Princess Nestan-Darejan (fl. 1556–1612), married King SimonIofKartli. Princess Ketevan...
Islam on the thrones ofKartli and Kakheti; one was Davud Khan, brother ofSimonIofKartli (r. 1556–1569, 1578–1599). Son of Levan of Kakheti, Prince Jesse...
brother of King SimonIofKartli. In 1576, 'Isa Khan became embroiled in a power struggle following the death of Shah Tahmasp. He was part of the Kazvin-based...
ofKartli-Kakheti from 1762 to 1798 Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), Soviet dictator from 1924 to 1953 Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939–1993), first President of the...
Hebraeus, Chron. Eccles., vol. 1, 537. Will Durant. The Age of Faith. New York, New York, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Chapter 21: Christianity in Conflict...
2009, p. 66-67. Asatiani & Janelidze 2009, p. 66. "Gurgen I". National Parliamentary Library of Georgia (in Georgian). Retrieved 2024-02-07. Papaskiri,...
died 1658) was a member of the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty, a daughter of King George X ofKartli and a consort of Teimuraz Iof Kakheti, whom she married...
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