List of historical states of Georgia

This is an incomplete list of states that have existed on the present-day territory of Georgia (country) since ancient times. It includes de facto independent entities like the major medieval Duchies (saeristavo).

Antiquity

• Kingdom of Diauehi (12th-8th centuries BC)
• Kingdom of Colchis (550 BC–164 BC)
• Kingdom of Lazica (6th century BC-7th century AD)
• Kingdom of Iberia (302 BC-580 AD)

Early Middle Ages

• Principate of Iberia (580-888)
• Emirate of Tbilisi (736-1122)
• Kingdom of Abkhazia (780s-1008)
• Kingdom of Hereti (787-1020s)
• Principality of Kakheti (787-1020s)
• Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti (1020s-1104)
• Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti (815-959)

Unification and Fragmentation (11th-18th centuries)

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Georgia (978-1466)
• Kingdom of Kartli (1484-1762)
• Kingdom of Kakheti (1455-1762)
• Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti (1762-1798)
• Kingdom of Imereti (1455-1810)

Royal Principalities

• Samtskhe-Saatabago (1268-1628)
• Principality of Guria (1460s-1829)
• Principality of Svaneti (1460s-1857)
• Principality of Mingrelia (1557-1857)
• Principality of Abkhazia (1660-1866)

Duchies

• Duchy of Kldekari (876-1103)
• Duchy of Racha (1050-1789)
• Duchy of Aragvi (1380-1747)
• Duchy of Ksani

Modern History

• Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921)
• Republic of Georgia (1991–present)