List of historical states of Georgia explained

This is an incomplete list of states that have existed on the present-day territory of Georgia 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 (550–164 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 (778–1008)
• Kingdom of Hereti (787–1014)
• Principality of Kakheti (787–1014)
• Bagratid Iberia (888–1008)
• Unified Kingdom of Kakheti and Hereti (1014–1104)

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 (1762–1801)
• Kingdom of Imereti (1455–1810)

Principalities

• Principality of Samtskhe (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 (15th century – 1801)

Modern history

• Republic of Guria (1905–1906)
• Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921)
• Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1991)
• Republic of Georgia (1991–present)