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1172–1216 · Georgian poet

Also known as: Schota Rustaweli, Meskhetian poet, Rustaveli, Rustaveli Shota, Rustaweli, Rustveli

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Georgian Romantic poetry steeped in the national lyric tradition that Rustaveli founded. (AI reason)
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