Patriarch Shio II of Georgia
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Shio II was Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1440 to 1443. A close ally of the king Alexander I of Georgia
, he was actively involved in the rehabilitation of the country after the devastating invasions by Timur
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Alexander I of Georgia
Alexander I, “the Great” , of the Bagrationi house, was king of Georgia from 1412 to 1442. Despite his efforts to restore the country from the ruins left by the Turco-Mongol warlord Timur Leng’s invasions, Georgia never recovered and faced the inevitable fragmentation that was followed by a long...
, he was actively involved in the rehabilitation of the country after the devastating invasions by Timur
Timur
Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...
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