Caucasia

Abstract

The formative era of Christian Armenian and Georgian cultures, between the fourth and eighth centuries, remains to this day one of the fundamental paradigms for national narratives and ethno-religious identity discourses of the two south Caucasian nation states. The transformations that the eastern Roman world experienced define that Late Antiquity did not find immediate resonance among south Caucasian people. Late antique authors, whether Georgian or Armenian, demonstrate a certain awareness of regional unity, whether in the context of conversion, or of safeguarding the Christian faith from the Sasanians, as symbolized by the united Albanian, Armenian, and Iberian rebellions against the Sasanians in the mid-fifth century. Due to Caucasia's geographic location between larger cultural worlds, syncretization of religious traditions was a common phenomenon long before the adoption of Christianity.

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