This kingdom ransomed the noblewoman Tamta, one of its [emphasize] vassal Zak‘arids, who often served as commanders called amirspasalars. 100,000 martyrs supposedly fell to Jalāl al-Dīn Mingburnū’s invasion of this kingdom, whose “incredible victory” in 1121 let it reconquer an emirate in the capital of its reunified eristavi realms. This kingdom served as grazing land during its “Great Turkish Troubles” until its king repulsed the Eldiguzids and Seljuks with resettled Kipchaks. In the 1230s, Gregory IX refused to fight Chormaqan’s Mongol invasion of this kingdom when it was ruled by Rusudan, a daughter of David Soslan and a queen who helped Alexios I capture Trebizond. David Narin ruled this kingdom’s breakaway realm of Imereti from Kutaisi. For 10 points, what Eastern Orthodox kingdom’s “golden age” spanned the Bagrationi (“ba-gra-tee-OWN-ee”) rule of David the Builder and Tamar the Great? ■END■
ANSWER: Georgia [or Saqartvelo or Kartvelia; or Kingdom of Georgia or Georgian Empire or Saqartvelos samepo; accept Georgian Golden Age] (The Zak‘arids, also known as the Mqargrdzeli or Zakarian family, were Armenian vassals of Georgia. The “incredible victory” was the Battle of Didgori.)
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