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Manuchihr III
Manuchihr III was Shirvanshah, ruler of Shirvan in present-day Azerbaijan, from about the 1120s to about 1160. Allied with the Georgian kingdom, he married Tamar, a daughter of King David IV the Builder. His court at Shamakhi was a centre of Persian literature where the poets Khaqani and Falaki Shirvani served, and he was succeeded by his son Akhsitan I.
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