TY - JOUR
TI - Bridging the Divide: Marriage Politics across the Caucasus
AU - Fabian, Lara
TI - Bridging the Divide: Marriage Politics across the Caucasus
AB - 
	The early relationships between the polities of Armenia and K‘art‘li in the South Caucasus and their neighbours in the North Caucasus is a central, but underappreciated, factor in the development of the South Caucasus’ social and political world in the Hellenistic period. Typically, only military aspects of these interactions are considered (e.g., Alan raids and control thereof). Hazy evidence of cross-Caucasus marriage alliances preserved in both the Armenian and Georgian historiographic traditions, however, hints at a far wider sphere of interaction, despite the inherent challenges in gleaning historical reality from these medieval accounts. This paper contextualizes two stories of cross-Caucasus marriage related to foundational dynastic figures in the Armenian and Georgian traditions, Artašēs and P‘arnavaz respectively, within a wider body of evidence for and thought about North-South Caucasus interaction. Taken as a whole, this consideration argues that North-South relationships should be seen as integral to the political development of the South Caucasus.
VL - 2021
IS - Volume 28
PY - 2021
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 221
EP - 244
DO - 10.4467/20800909EL.21.015.13373
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/bridging-the-divide-marriage-politics-across-the-caucasus
KW - Armenia
KW - K‘art‘li
KW - North Caucasus
KW - Alans