Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Kuperera kweByzantine Empire kwakanga kwava kutyisidzirwa pashure pokunge kupandukira kwakakura kwakatungamirirwa naBardas Skleros kwatanga muna 976. Pashure pokukunda muhondo dzinoverengeka, vapanduki vakakunda Asia Minor. Mukurumidziro yemamiriro ezvinhu, muchinda weGeorgia David III weTao akabatsira Basil; mushure mekukunda kwakasimba kwevakavimbika muhondo yePankaleia, akawana mubairo wekutonga kwehupenyu hwese kumatunhu akakosha ehumambo kumabvazuva kweAsia Minor. Kuramba kwaDhavhidhi Basil mukupandukira kwaBardas Phokas muna 987, zvisinei, kwakamutsa kusavimba kweConstantinople kwevatongi veGeorgia. Pashure pokunge kumukira kwacho kwakundikana, Dhavhidhi akamanikidzwa kuita kuti Basil ave mugari wenhaka yezvinhu zvake zvakawanda. Muna 1001, pashure porufu rwaDhavhidhi weTao, Basil akagara nhaka Tao, Phasiane, uye Speri. Aya mapurovhinzi ipapo akarongwa kuva musoro weIberia nomuzinda mukuru paTheodosiopolis. Izvi zvakamanikidza mutsivi wechiGeorgian Bagratid mutongi Bagrat III kuti azive kugadziriswa kutsva. Mwanakomana waBagrat George I, zvisinei, akagara nhaka kodzero yekugara nhaka yaDhavhidhi. George, uyo akanga achiri muduku uye aida chinzvimbo, akatanga mushandirapamwe wokudzorera dzinza raKuropalates kuGeorgia ndokutora Tao muna 1015<unk>1016. Akapinda mubatanidzwa naFatimid caliph weEgypt, al-Hakim, achimanikidza Basil kuti arege kupindura zvine mutsindo kurwisa kwaGeorge. VaByzantium vakapindawo muhondo isingachinji navaBulgaria, vachigumira zviito zvavo kumadokero. Nokukurumidza apo Bulgaria yakakundwa
muna 1018 uye al-Hakim akanga afa, Basil akatungamirira uto rake kurwisa Georgia. Kugadzirira kwehondo yakakura kurwisa Humambo hweGeorgia kwakatangwa, kutanga nekusimbiswazve kweTheodosiopolis.