Vakhtang Gorgaslani
king of Georgia
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Vakhtang Gorgaslani was a Georgian king in the late 5th century CE. He was a ruler of legendary valor who temporarily reasserted Georgia's national sovereignty during a period of conflict between the Byzantine Empire and the Sasanian dynasty of Persia. Despite his efforts, the Sasanian monarch Khosrow I abolished the Iberian monarchy, and local authority was subsequently held by provincial magnates, who were vassals to Persia, Byzantium, and later the Arab caliphs.1
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