Hereti

Heretien is a historic Georgian province, which lies to the east of the country. Northwest of Heretien is Kakheti and Kartli to the west. In the east it borders with Azerbaijan or earlier Caucasian Albania. Its southern boundary formed over a long period of the Mtkvari River.

Antiquity

Heretien was inhabited in ancient times by different priority Kartvelian, tribes. In the 3rd century BC, the tribes Heretiens came under the rule of Albania. After its decline it was in the 5th century part of Iberia and its population went on in the rest of Georgia.

Middle Ages

After Iberia had become as the Emirate of Tbilisi, a vassal of the Arabs, the peripheral areas split off one after the other, including Heretien. End of the 8th century, Heretien began to withdraw from the Emirate and the first half of the 9th century under Heretien threw the remains of Albania. After the death of King hamams but the areas of the Mtkvari went right lost and Kakheti attacked several times the country and was able to annex smaller areas. These but the king of Heretien regained in the 30s of the 10th century, when Kakheti was devastated by the attacks of the Arabs. In the 60s of the same century king succeeded Ioane Senekerim to capture a part of Kakheti. Soon after, however, as Kakheti not been weakened by attacks from the outside and the heretical dynasty became extinct apparently, Kakheti Heretien could conquer all and it became part of the Kingdom of Kakheti - Heretien. With this, it was from 1008 to 1014 and again from 1104 part of the united Georgian Kingdom.

In 1226 it was occupied by Jalal ad-Din from Khorezm, 1230 Georgian again, as the Mongols defeated the Khorezm Shah final. 1235, when the Mongols came closer, the nobility fled to the west and the country fell without a fight in the hands of the Mongols. For whose empire it belonged until his graduation in 1254, then to the Il- Khan Empire.

Modern Times

After the Mongols withdrew permanently from the region in the 15th century belonged Heretien since the 1460s the Kingdom of Kakheti, this united 1727 with Kartli. The Kingdom of Kartli - Kakheti was weakened by the ongoing Persian invasions of the late 18th century in 1801 annexed by the Russian Empire. 1918-1921 belonged to Heretien large part of the Republic of Georgia, the Transcaucasian SFSR 1922-1936 and 1936-1991 of the Georgian SSR. Since 1991 is part of the province of Kakheti. Smaller eastern territories belong to Azerbaijan.

Ruler

• Sumbat ( Sahil Ibn Sumbat ) ( 815-840 ), the first known prince

• Adarnase I ( 840-865 )

• Hamam ( 865-893 )

• Adarnase II ( Adarnase Patrikios ) ( 897-943 )

• Ishkhanik ( 943-951 )

• John ( Ioane Senekerim ) ( 951-959 )