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  "ar": "هرقل الأول ملك كاخيتي",
  "en": "Erekle I of Kakheti",
  "ur": "ہرکیولس اول کاکھیتی"
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  "ar": "إركلي الأول (1642–1709)، المعروف باسمه المسلم نظر علي خان وباسم نيكولاس دافيدوفيتش في البلاط الروسي، أمير باغراتيوني نشأ في موسكو وقبل الإسلام ثمنًا لدعم الشاه الصفوي، فحكم ملكًا على كارتلي (1688–1703) ثم على كاخيتي (1703–1709) تحت الحماية الصفوية. أمضى أربعة عشر عامًا في بلاط الشاه في إصفهان قبل تنصيبه، وخاض حربًا أهلية طويلة ضد جورج الحادي عشر المخلوع، ونظّم إدارة مدينة تبليسي ونقابات حرفييها، وتوفي في إصفهان سنة 1709 تاركًا كاخيتي لابنه داود الثاني (إمام قلي خان).",
  "en": "Erekle I (1642-1709), known by his Muslim name Nazar Ali Khan and at the Russian court as Tsarevich Nicholas Davidovich, was a Bagrationi prince raised in Moscow who accepted Islam as the price of Safavid support and reigned as king of Kartli (1688-1703) and then of Kakheti (1703-1709) under Safavid protection. He spent fourteen years at the shah's court in Isfahan before his installation, fought a long civil war against the deposed George XI, ordered Tbilisi's city administration and craft guilds, and died at Isfahan in 1709, leaving Kakheti to his son David II (Imam Quli Khan).",
  "ur": "ایرکلے اول (1642ء–1709ء)، جو اپنے مسلم نام نظر علی خان اور روسی دربار میں زارزادہ نکولس ڈیوڈووچ کے نام سے معروف تھے، ایک باگراتیونی شہزادے تھے جو ماسکو میں پروان چڑھے؛ انھوں نے صفوی حمایت کی قیمت کے طور پر اسلام قبول کیا اور صفوی سرپرستی میں کارتلی (1688ء–1703ء) پھر کاخیتی (1703ء–1709ء) کے بادشاہ رہے۔ تنصیب سے پہلے انھوں نے اصفہان میں شاہ کے دربار میں چودہ سال گزارے، معزول جارج یازدہم سے طویل خانہ جنگی لڑی، تبلیسی کی شہری انتظامیہ اور دستکار انجمنوں کو منظم کیا، اور 1709ء میں اصفہان میں وفات پائی؛ کاخیتی ان کے بیٹے ڈیوڈ ثانی (امام قلی خان) کو ملا۔"
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   "note": "The Georgian and Arabic articles give 1642 and the Russian article gives 1637 or 1642, while the English article and the Wikidata item give 1643; the 1642 of the Georgian tradition is followed, with the other readings preserved. The year 1642 spans 1051-1052 AH, so no single Hijri year is built.",
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    "note": "Raised in the Orthodox faith at the Moscow court, he was required by Shah Suleiman to change his faith as the price of a crown. The English article records that in 1674 he at first refused to become a Muslim, citing the oath of allegiance his ancestor Alexander II of Kakheti had given to Feodor I of Russia, and it dates his conversion to Islam, under the name Nazar Ali Khan, to 1676. The Russian article says that after hesitation he accepted Islam and received the name Nazar Ali Khan before his fourteen years at Isfahan, and the Georgian article likewise says that after long hesitation he became a Muslim and took the name Nazar Ali Khan. His conversion to Islam is therefore documented in full; but no text read names a branch or a school of Islam for the king himself, and the Wikidata item's religion statement is Islam in generic form. Under the founder's rules — Safavid court context is not attestation for the person — his faith is recorded as unknown, with the conversion stated here.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Heraclius I of Kakheti' (revision 1375678213 of 19 September 2026), Russian Wikipedia 'Ираклий I (царь Кахетии)' (revision 151968885 of 28 February 2026), Georgian Wikipedia 'ერეკლე I' (revision 4822290 of 29 June 2025), Arabic Wikipedia 'هرقل الأول' (revision 74341229 of 19 April 2026) and Wikidata Q567868 (item revision 2513784600 of 4 July 2026, re-asserted identical on a second live query), all fetched live in-session on 1 November 2026, the QID grounded from each article's own page property. Existence checked against origin/main before building, by slug variants and by QID: no record exists for this king, and the existing person/heraclius is the Byzantine emperor (Q41852), a different man. Queue check: the queue's 1642-1709 is followed on both years, the birth year on the Georgian and Arabic articles with the English article's and item's 1643 and the Russian article's 1637 preserved in the born note. His conversion is stated in full in the faith note; no branch is recorded, as no text names one for him. No child_of is written (his father Prince David has no record on origin/main) and no successor_of is written here (that edge belongs in a successor's record, and neither George XI nor his son David II has one); his death place is carried as a died_in relation to place/isfahan, which exists on origin/main, not as a key inside the date block.",
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    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "إركلي الأول (1642–1709)، المعروف باسمه المسلم نظر علي خان وباسم نيكولاس دافيدوفيتش في البلاط الروسي، أمير من أسرة باغراتيوني الجورجية حكم ملكًا على كارتلي (1688–1703) ثم على كاخيتي (1703–1709) تحت الحماية الصفوية. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وهو ابن الأمير داود وحفيد الملك تيموراز الأول ملك كاخيتي. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وقد نشأ في موسكو منذ طفولته، وقبل الإسلام بعد أن جعله الشاه شرطًا لتولّيه العرش، فصار من أبرز ملوك جورجيا المسلمين في العهد الصفوي. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة في موسكو",
     "markdown": "وُلد إركلي سنة 1642 في رواية المقالين الجورجي والعربي، بينما تعطي المقالة الإنجليزية وبطاقة ويكي بيانات سنة 1643، وتعطي المقالة الروسية سنة 1637 أو 1642. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ar} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} {cite:wikidata-erekle-i} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru} وقد نُفي جده تيموراز الأول وفقد عرش كاخيتي، فنشأ إركلي منذ سنة 1653 أو 1654 في بلاط موسكو باسم التساريفيتش نيكولاس دافيدوفيتش. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وفي سنة 1671 كان إشبينًا في زواج القيصر أليكسي، وهو موضع شرف يدل على مكانته في البلاط الروسي. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وفي سنة 1662 حاول استرداد كاخيتي ففشل أمام منافسه أرتشيل. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "العودة واعتناق الإسلام",
     "markdown": "عاد إركلي إلى القوقاز سنة 1674 آمالًا في عرش كارتلي أو كاخيتي بدعم فارسي. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وطلب منه الشاه سليمان أن يغيّر دينه ثمنًا للتاج، فرفض في البداية أن يصير مسلمًا مستندًا إلى يمين الولاء التي كان جدّه الأكبر ألكسندر الثاني ملك كاخيتي قد أداها للقيصر فيودور الأول. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} ثم قبل الإسلام بعد تردد طويل واتخذ اسم نظر علي خان، وتؤرخ المقالة الإنجليزية إسلامه بسنة 1676. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وتروي المقالة الروسية أنه قبل الإسلام بعد تردد وتلقّب بنظر علي خان قبل أن يقضي أربعة عشر عامًا في بلاط الشاه في إصفهان. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملك كارتلي",
     "markdown": "نصّبه الشاه ملكًا على كارتلي سنة 1688 بقوة فارسيّة، في حين نُفي سلفه جورج الحادي عشر. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وخاض حربًا أهلية طويلة ضد جورج الحادي عشر العائد من منفاه، وحاصر جورج مدينة تفليس (تبليسي) سنة 1691 دون أن يسترد عرشه نهائيًا. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وفي عهده نُظّمت إدارة مدينة تبليسي وصدرت مواثيق لتنظيم نقابات الحرفيين فيها. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملك كاخيتي والوفاة",
     "markdown": "في سنة 1703 نقله الشاه إلى حكم كاخيتي وعيّنه قائدًا لحرسه. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} ثم سلّم كاخيتي لابنه داود الثاني المعروف باسم إمام قلي خان، وكان ابنه هو الآخر قد دخل في الإسلام. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} وتزوج إركلي من آنا تشولوكاشفيلي سنة 1677 في رواية المقالة الروسية. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru} وتوفي في إصفهان سنة 1709. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Erekle I (1642-1709), known by his Muslim name Nazar Ali Khan and at the Russian court as Tsarevich Nicholas Davidovich, was a prince of the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty who reigned as king of Kartli (1688-1703) and then of Kakheti (1703-1709) under Safavid protection. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} He was the son of Prince David and a grandson of King Teimuraz I of Kakheti. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} Raised in Moscow from childhood, he accepted Islam after the shah made it the condition of his receiving a crown, becoming one of the most prominent Muslim kings of Georgia in the Safavid period. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru}"
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     "heading": "Upbringing in Moscow",
     "markdown": "Erekle was born in 1642 according to the Georgian and Arabic articles, while the English article and the Wikidata item give 1643 and the Russian article gives 1637 or 1642. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ar} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} {cite:wikidata-erekle-i} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru} His grandfather Teimuraz I had been exiled and had lost the throne of Kakheti, and Erekle was raised from 1653 or 1654 at the Moscow court under the name Tsarevich Nicholas Davidovich. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} In 1671 he served as best man at the wedding of Tsar Alexis, a place of honour showing his standing at the Russian court. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} In 1662 he attempted to recover Kakheti but failed against his rival Archil. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en}"
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     "heading": "Return and conversion to Islam",
     "markdown": "Erekle returned to the Caucasus in 1674 hoping for the throne of Kartli or Kakheti with Persian support. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} Shah Suleiman demanded that he change his faith as the price of a crown, and he at first refused to become a Muslim, citing the oath of allegiance his ancestor Alexander II of Kakheti had given to Tsar Feodor I of Russia. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} After long hesitation he accepted Islam and took the name Nazar Ali Khan; the English article dates his conversion to 1676. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} The Russian article likewise relates that after hesitation he accepted Islam and received the name Nazar Ali Khan before spending fourteen years at the shah's court in Isfahan. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru}"
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    {
     "heading": "King of Kartli",
     "markdown": "The shah installed him as king of Kartli in 1688 with Persian troops, while his predecessor George XI was driven into exile. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} He fought a long civil war against George XI, who returned from exile, and in 1691 George blockaded Tbilisi without permanently recovering his throne. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} In his reign the city administration of Tbilisi was organised and charters were issued regulating its craft guilds. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "King of Kakheti and death",
     "markdown": "In 1703 the shah transferred him to rule Kakheti and appointed him commander of the shah's guard. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} He then handed Kakheti to his son David II, known as Imam Quli Khan, who had likewise entered Islam. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} According to the Russian article, Erekle married Ana Cholokashvili in 1677. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru} He died at Isfahan in 1709. {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ایرکلے اول (1642ء–1709ء)، جو اپنے مسلم نام نظر علی خان اور روسی دربار میں زارزادہ نکولس ڈیوڈووچ کے نام سے معروف تھے، جارجیا کے باگراتیونی خاندان کے شہزادے تھے جنھوں نے صفوی سرپرستی میں کارتلی (1688ء–1703ء) پھر کاخیتی (1703ء–1709ء) پر حکومت کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} وہ شہزادہ ڈیوڈ کے بیٹے اور کاخیتی کے بادشاہ تیموراز اول کے پوتے تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی",
     "markdown": "جارجی اور عربی مضامین کے مطابق ان کی ولادت 1642ء میں ہوئی، جبکہ انگریزی مضمون اور وکی ڈیٹا آئٹم 1643ء اور روسی مضمون 1637ء یا 1642ء دیتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ar} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} {cite:wikidata-erekle-i} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru} وہ بچپن سے ماسکو کے دربار میں پروان چڑھے اور 1671ء میں زار الیکسس کی شادی میں دولہا کے ساتھی (بیسٹ مین) بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} 1674ء میں شاہ سلیمان نے تاج کی قیمت کے طور پر تبدیلیِ مذہب کا مطالبہ کیا؛ پہلے انھوں نے انکار کیا، لیکن طویل تردّد کے بعد اسلام قبول کر کے نظر علی خان کا نام اختیار کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} 1688ء میں وہ کارتلی کے بادشاہ بنے اور معزول جارج یازدہم سے طویل خانہ جنگی لڑی۔ {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} 1703ء میں شاہ نے انھیں کاخیتی منتقل کر دیا، جو بعد میں ان کے بیٹے ڈیوڈ ثانی (امام قلی خان) کو ملا۔ {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-en} {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ka} ان کی وفات 1709ء میں اصفہان میں ہوئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-erekle-i-ru}"
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