Reign of Queen Tamar
Georgia's golden age, from Caucasus power to Rustaveli's epic
Tamar became sole ruler of Georgia, and her reign is remembered as the country's golden age. Georgia dominated the Caucasus, and Shota Rustaveli wrote The Knight in the Panther's Skin.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — 21 years earlier
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — 18 years later
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 20 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 1 year later
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 8 years later
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 22 years later
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 47)
- Genghis Khan (aged 22)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 58)
- Henry II (aged 51)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 37)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 30)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 27)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 19)
- John Lackland (aged 18)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 2)