• the country turned out to be worse, and by 548, Gubazes was requesting assistance from Byzantium. Gubazes remained a Byzantine ally during the next few...
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    discontent in Christian Lazica and King Gubazes revolted in 548, this time against the Persians. Gubazes II requested aid from Emperor Justinian I and...
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  • is repulsed, and forced to retreat out of Archaeopolis (Georgia). King Gubazes II is invited to observe the siege of a Persian-held fortress, and is murdered...
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  • in 545, secured by Roman payments to the Persians. Early in 548, King Gubazes of Lazica, having found Persian protection oppressive, asked Justinian...
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  • Visigothic Kingdom, after King Theudis is assassinated. Lazic War: King Gubazes II revolts against the Persians, and requests aid from Justinian I. He sends...
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  • intervenes in Lazica (modern Georgia), and supports the weakened king Gubazes II against a full-scale uprising. He sends an expeditionary force under Mermeroes...
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  • Burgundy, killed by the Franks 551 Emperor Jianwen of Liang, by Hou Jing 555 Gubazes II of Lazica, King of Lazica, by two Byzantine generals 565 Diarmait mac...
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  • circa 540, when he was succeeded by his possible son, Gubazes II. Opsites, an uncle of Gubazes, is mentioned by the 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius...
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    intervenes in Lazica (modern Georgia), and supports the weakened king Gubazes II against a full-scale uprising. He sends an expeditionary force under Mermeroes...
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    Lazic War: The Byzantine army under Bessas combines forces with King Gubazes II, and defeats the Persians in Lazica (modern Georgia) in a surprise attack...
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    First Council of Nicaea in 325. The first Christian king of Lazica was Gubazes I; in the 5th century, Christianity was made the official religion of Lazica...
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    the Lazic War (541–562), in 548, along with the Alans they allied with Gubazes II of Lazica and conquered the Petra from the Persians. In 551, some Sabirs...
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  • trade in Lazica, acting as a middleman. This triggered the Lazic king Gubazes II to switch sides. John Tzibus was killed by an arrow in the neck in 541...
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    Khosrow brought his army north to Lazica on request of the Lazic king Gubazes II to repel the Byzantines from his territory. The fortress of Petra was...
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  • is repulsed, and forced to retreat out of Archaeopolis (Georgia). King Gubazes II is invited to observe the siege of a Persian-held fortress, and is murdered...
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  • Silentiary, 6th-century poet in the court of Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565). Gubazes II, client king of Lazica (r. 541–554), by birth a half-Roman, served as...
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  • battlefield to redress their assassination of the Byzantine ally King Gubazes II of Lazica. They launched a full-scale assault on the new Sasanian fort...
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  • Tzath II (Georgian: წათე II) was King of Lazica as a Byzantine client from 556 to an unknown date. He was the younger brother of Gubazes II, who was assassinated...
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  • by the local king Gubazes II. After passing through the difficult terrain of Lazica, the Sasanian forces met and joined Gubazes II. The main objective...
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  • Biografico"". Monaci Lőrinc krónikája Kis Károlyról. - Carmen seu historia de Carolo II. cognomento Parvo, rege Hungariae, Fordította: Márki Sándor, Budapest, Athenaeum...
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    passage, Procopius remarks parenthetically that Opsites was an uncle of Gubazes II of Lazica and at one time king of the Lazi: "[This Persian general].....
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    the Lazi under their king Gubazes II from Byzantium to Persia. The Persians quickly overran the country, but after Gubazes learned that the Persians planned...
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  • September/October, 555 the three of them and the sacellarius Rusticus went to meet Gubazes II of Lazica. Justin and Bouzes reportedly thought that they were to discuss...
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  • II of Salerno Guaimar III of Salerno Guaimar IV of Salerno Guaram I of Iberia Guaram II of Iberia Guaram III of Iberia Gubazes I of Lazica Gubazes II...
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  • (including the region of Suania), while his peace overtures to the Lazic king Gubazes II (r. 541–555) failed. Reinforced with mercenaries recruited among the Sabirs...
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  • 2002, p. 117. Procopius, History of the Wars, Book II: XXIX Procopius, History of the Wars, Book II, XXIX Bury, J. B. (2013). History of the Later Roman...
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  • Ctesiphon Dabuyid dynasty Drustbed Eulamius Farn-Sasan Gubazes II of Lazica Herat Hormizd I Hormizd II Hormizd III Hormizd IV Iberia (Caucasus) Iberia, Principate...
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  • of king Gubazes II by the Byzantine generals stationed there, and to examine the accusations of treason levelled by the latter against Gubazes. Martindale...
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  • to assassinate the vassal king Gubazes II. However, Pharsanses betrayed the Sasanians and revealed the plan to Gubazes, after which both defected to the...
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  • on the eastern shore of the Black Sea with the aid of the Lazic king Gubazes II, who had been alienated by the Byzantines under magister militum per Armeniam...
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