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Country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia
541
The siege of Petra took place in 541 when the Sasanian Empire, under King Khosrow I, besieged the town of Petra in Lazica, held by the Byzantine Empire, and it marked the opening stage of the Lazic War. The conflict began after Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, on the advice of one of his officials, John Tzibus, established a fortress at Petra and imposed a trade monopoly on the local population, causing resentment among the citizens of Lazica.
September 548 – January 549
The Siege of Petra took place in 548/549, when the Byzantine Empire besieged the fortress of Petra in Lazica, which was under the Sasanian Empire. The Sasanian king Khosrow I sought to expand his influence in the Black Sea region and challenge Byzantine naval supremacy by building a navy.
550–551
The siege of Petra was fought in 550 AD, between the Byzantines (East Romans) under general Bessas, and the Sasanian Persian garrison of Petra in the buffer state of Lazica. The strategic fortress had previously been held by the Byzantines before it was seized in 541 by the Sasanian king Khosrow I, and his Lazi allies.
July 555 – June 556
The siege of Phasis took place in 555–556 during the Lazic War between the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires. Expecting an easy victory, the Persians besieged the town of Phasis in Lazica, held by the Byzantines, but were defeated in the ensuing irregular battle.
627–628
The siege of Tbilisi, or Tiflis, was a siege by the Byzantine Empire and western Turkic Khaganate in 627–628 against Prince Stephen I of Iberia, the Sasanid vassal ruler of Sasanian Iberia.
12 August 1121
The Battle of Didgori (Georgian: დიდგორის ბრძოლა, romanized: didgoris brdzola) was fought between the armies of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Seljuk Empire at the narrow place of Didgori, 40 km west of Tbilisi, on August 12, 1121. The large Muslim army, under the command of Ilghazi, was unable to maneuver and suffered a devastating defeat due to King David IV's effective military tactics.
1228
The Battle of Bolnisi (Georgian: ბოლნისის ბრძოლა) was fought in 1228 AD near Bolnisi, then part of the Kingdom of Georgia. The invading Khwarazmid Empire was led by Jalal al-Din Mangburni, its last Sultan, who was driven from his realm by the Mongol Empire and was trying to recapture lost territories.
1346–1352
The Black Death was a plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history, leading to the death of up to 50 million people, around 30% to 60% of the European population and approximately 33% of the Middle Eastern population.
1386
The siege of Tbilisi was the successful siege of the city of Tbilisi, capital of the Kingdom of Georgia, by the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur, which ended on 22 November 1386. The official history of his reign, Zafarnama, represents this invasion in Georgia as a jihad.
August 1463
The Battle of Chikhori was fought in 1463 between the forces of King George VIII of Georgia and those of the rebel prince Bagrat, claimant to the throne of western Georgia. The battle ended in a decisive victory for Bagrat and his allies among the western Georgian nobility, leading to George VIII’s retreat to eastern Georgia and the effective loss of royal authority in Imereti.
1556
The Battle of Garisi (Georgian: გარისის ბრძოლა) was fought between the Georgian and Safavid Iranian armies at the village of Garisi (present-day Tetritsqaro) in 1556, and resulted in a stalemate between both sides. This conflict was an immediate consequence of the Treaty of Amasya signed between the Ottoman and Safavid empires in 1555.
16 June 1609
The Battle of Tashiskari (Georgian: ტაშისკარის ბრძოლა) was fought between the Georgians and the Ottomans at the village of Tashiskari on June 16, 1609. The Georgians, led by Giorgi Saakadze won a victory over the Ottomans.
1614–1617
Abbas I’s Kakhetian and Kartlian campaigns (Georgian: აბას I-ის კახეთისა და ქართლის ლაშქრობები) refers to the four campaigns Safavid Shah Abbas I led between 1614 and 1617, in his East Georgian vassal kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–18). The campaigns were initiated as a response to the shown disobedience and subsequently staged rebellion by Abbas' formerly most loyal Georgian ghulams, namely Luarsab II of Kartli and Teimuraz I of Kakheti.
1625
The Battle of Aghaiani (Georgian: აღაიანის ბრძოლა; Persian: نبرد آقایانی) was a battle fought in 1625 between the armies of Safavid Iran and the Kingdom of Kakheti. In early spring, Shah Abbas I sent a large Iranian army to Georgia under the command of Qarachaqay Khan, which encamped near the village of Aghaiani.
25 March 1625
The Battle of Martkopi (Georgian: მარტყოფის ბრძოლა) (Persian: نبرد مارتقوپی) was a 1625 military confrontation between the Georgian Kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti and Safavid Iran. The Georgians, led by general Giorgi Saakadze, annihilated an Iranian detachment of Shah-Abbas I. In spring 1625, in order to avoid a forthcoming revolt, Shah-Abbas I sent his troops into Georgia under the orders of Qarachaqay Khan.
September 1659
The Bakhtrioni uprising (Georgian: ბახტრიონის აჯანყება) was a general revolt in the eastern Georgian Kingdom of Kakheti against the political domination of Safavid Persia, in 1659. Despite the fact that the Persians were able to suppress the uprising later, they were forced to abandon plans to settle Georgia with the Qizilbash.
1703
The 1703 Ottoman invasion of western Georgia was a military expedition undertaken by the Ottoman Empire against the tributary states in western Georgia—Imereti, Guria, and Mingrelia. This considerable military deployment, ostensibly to settle a power struggle in Imereti in favor of the sultan's candidate, portended a change in Ottoman policy in the fluid frontier region in the Caucasus and aimed at consolidating the imperial authority among the restive Georgian subjects.
20 April 1770
The Battle of Aspindza (Georgian: ასპინძის ბრძოლა) was a meeting engagement fought on 20 April 1770 between the Georgians, led by king of Kartli-Kakheti Erekle II, and the Ottoman Empire. The Georgians won a victory over the Turks, defeating them in detail at the river crossing.
8 September 1795 – 11 September 1795
The Battle of Krtsanisi (Georgian: კრწანისის ბრძოლა, romanized: k'rts'anisis brdzola, Persian: نبرد کرتسانیسی) was fought between the army of Qajar Iran (Persia) and the Georgian armies of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and Kingdom of Imereti at the place of Krtsanisi near Tbilisi, Georgia, from September 8 to September 11, 1795, as part of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's war in response to King Heraclius II of Georgia’s alliance with the Russian Empire. The battle resulted in the decisive defeat of the Georgians, capture, and complete destruction of their capital Tbilisi, as well as the…
9 August 1828
The Battle of Akhaltsikhe during the Russo-Turkish War, 1828–1829, may refer to one of the following. Firstly, an offensive battle under the walls of Akhaltsikhe on August 21 (August 9 O.S.), 1828, between 9,000 Russians under Field-Marshal Paskevich on the offensive and 30,000 Turks under Kios-Mahomet-Pasha.