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Principality of Hereti
Origins
Hereti lay along the Alazani and Iori rivers and around Shaki, a borderland between Kartli and the old Caucasian Albania. In the 9th century, as Arab power waned, a local dynasty with ties to the former Mihranid Principality of Albania established its own rule, sometimes called the kings of the Rans.
Rule and society
Its population mixed Georgians, Armenians and Caucasian Albanians, and its church long followed the anti-Chalcedonian Armenian tradition. In the 10th century Queen Dinar, of Georgian Bagratid descent, converted the principality to Georgian Orthodoxy. Its rulers fought the Emirate of Tbilisi and competed with Kakheti, controlling farmland and routes to the Caspian.
Decline and legacy
Hereti was absorbed by the Principality of Kakheti in the late 10th century, and around 1010 the two formed the Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti. The name survived as a province of the Georgian kingdom.
Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.
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