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(Translated from the original page in Georgian)

Bardos, Barad, Bardo – according to Leonti Mroveli, is one of the ethnarchs of the Caucasian peoples. He is the founder of Partaw, the oldest city of Caucasian Albania.

History
After the family of Togarmah started to grow, it was decided to divide the land of the Caucasus among eight brothers. The eldest and strongest, Hayk, was given half of his father's land, which was around Mount Ararat (also known as Mount Masis). Kartlos settled with the other six brothers in the north. "And to Bardos he gave territory from the Berduji river to the sea where the conjoined Aras and Kura rivers enter it. Then Bardos built the city of Partaw and settled there."

Boundaries
Leonti Mroveli provides little information on the boudaries of Bardos's land. It is only known that the territory of Bardos included the basin of the right tributary of the Kura River, from the downstream of the Debed River to the Kura-Aras confluence.


 * Northern border - Kura River
 * Western border - River Berduji/Debed, which begins at the confluence of the Dzoraget and Pambak rivers and flows into the Kura.
 * Eastern border - Kura-Aras estuary mentioned in the Georgian Chronicles.
 * Southern border - the border strip formed by the valleys of the Kura's flowing rivers, which is separated from the valley of the Aras river basin.

The valley system has always been and will be a good way to define natural boundaries. Hence, Togarmah set natural boundaries for his sons such as seas, rivers, valleys and mountain ridges.