Gubazes I (Georgian: გუბაზი; Greek: Γουβάζης) was a king of Lazica who flourished in the 450s and 460s. His relations with the Roman Empire are recorded...

Gubazes II (Georgian: გუბაზ II, Greek: Γουβάζης) was king of Lazica (modern western Georgia) from circa 541 until his assassination in 555. He was one...

king of Lazica was Gubazes I; in the 5th century, Christianity was made the official religion of Lazica. Later, the nobility and clergy of Lazica switched...

eastern Black Sea coast, in Lazica in what is now western Georgia. In the 6th century, under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, it served as an important...

was a member of the Lazic royal family and prince of Abasgia, but never a king of Lazica, thus making Gubazes a direct successor of Tzath I. Odisheli 2018...

in Christian Lazica and King Gubazes revolted in 548, this time against the Persians. Gubazes II requested aid from Emperor Justinian I and allied with...

winds of Thrace sometimes stripped him of his scanty clothing. He was visited by both Emperor Leo I the Thracian—accompanied by King Gubazes I of Lazica—and...

545, secured by Roman payments to the Persians. Early in 548, King Gubazes of Lazica, having found Persian protection oppressive, asked Justinian to restore...

engulf a large amount of the Eastern Roman military resources, and thus Marcian did not agree to help them. King Gubazes I of Lazica—a Caucasian state in...

king, Gubazes I of Lazica, who declared Christianity as a state religion of Lazica. After the introduction of Christianity, Phasis was the see of a Greek...

King Gubazes II revolts against the Persians, and requests aid from Justinian I. He sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (8,000 men) to Lazica (modern...

Central Italy. Lazic War: King Khosrau I intervenes in Lazica (modern Georgia), and supports the weakened king Gubazes II against a full-scale uprising. He...

Central Italy. Lazic War: King Khosrau I intervenes in Lazica (modern Georgia), and supports the weakened king Gubazes II against a full-scale uprising. He...

(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 by...

September/October - Gubazes II, king of Lazica (Georgia) exact date unknown Helier, Flemish-born hermit and patron saint of Jersey Ly Thien Bao, emperor of Vietnam...

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 afterwards captured...

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of Lazica (or Egrisi in Georgian sources). In the 5th century, the first Christian king Gubazes I declared Christianity as a state religion of Lazica. Locals...

strategically significant satellite kingdom of Lazica near the Black Sea as requested by its discontented king Gubazes, exacting tribute from the towns he passed...

6th-century king of Lazica (western Georgia), a contemporary of the Sassanid king of Iran Kavadh I. Damnazes, like other kings of Late Antique Lazica, is mentioned...

Byzantine army under Bessas combines forces with King Gubazes II, and defeats the Persians in Lazica (modern Georgia) in a surprise attack. The survivors...

capture of Petra was part of Khosrow I's invasion of Lazica. This campaign commenced when the Sasanian king was invited by the local king Gubazes II. After...

Pharsanses, at the head of a small army numbering 300, marched to Lazica, where they planned to assassinate the vassal king Gubazes II. However, Pharsanses...

on the battlefield to redress their assassination of the Byzantine ally King Gubazes II of Lazica. They launched a full-scale assault on the new Sasanian...

eastern part of Lazica. The Byzantine forces in Lazica withdrew west to the mouth of the Phasis, while the Lazi, including their king Gubazes and his family...

in Christian Lazica and King Gubazes revolted in 548, this time against the Persians. Gubazes II requested aid from Emperor Justinian I and allied with...

state of Lazica. The strategic fortress had previously been held by the Byzantines before it was seized in 541 by the Sasanian king Khosrow I, and his...

Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565). Gubazes II, client king of Lazica (r. 541–554), by birth a half-Roman, served as a silentiarius at the time of his accession...

of Petra took place in 549 when the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, under Emperor Justinian I, besieged the strategic fortress of Petra in Lazica,...

Emperor Jianwen of Liang, by Hou Jing 555 Gubazes II of Lazica, King of Lazica, by two Byzantine generals 565 Diarmait mac Cerbaill, King of Tara, by Áed...