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Country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia
13 November 1853
The Battle of Akhaltsikhe (Russian: Ахалцихское сражение, Georgian: ახალციხის ბრძოლა) occurred on 13 November 1853 during the Crimean War when a Georgian-Russian force of 7,000 defeated a Turkish army of 18,000 men near the Akhaltsikhe fortress in the Caucasus. At the outbreak of the Crimean War, Ali Pasha immediately launched a Turkish offensive to capture the Akhaltsikhe fortress.
2 November 1914 – 17 November 1914
The Bergmann Offensive (Turkish: Bergmann Taaruzu; in Turkish literature Köprüköy ve Azap Muharebeleri, "Battles of Köprüköy and Azap"; in Russian literature Кёприкейская операция—"Köprüköy operation") was the first engagement of the Caucasus campaign. The first battle after the Russians took Bayazıt during World War I. General Georgy Bergmann, commander of the 1st Caucasus Army Corps, took the initiative against the Ottoman Empire.
28 August 1924 – 5 September 1924
The August Uprising (Georgian: აგვისტოს აჯანყება, romanized: agvist'os ajanq'eba) was an unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic from late August to early September 1924. Aimed at restoring the independence of Georgia from the Soviet Union, the uprising was led by the Committee for Independence of Georgia, a bloc of anti-Soviet political organisations chaired by the Georgian Social Democratic (Menshevik) Party.
9 March 1956
The 1956 Georgian demonstrations (Georgian: 1956 წლის საპროტესტო გამოსვლები) were a series of protests against Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy that took place in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, and other cities in the republic from 4 to 10 March 1956. The immediate trigger was the publication of Khrushchev's "Secret Speech", which criticized Joseph Stalin, the former Soviet leader born in Georgia.
18 March 1989
The Abkhazia conflict is a territorial dispute over Abkhazia, a region on the eastern coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. The conflict involves Georgia, the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia, which is internationally recognised only by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Syria; Georgia and all other United Nations members consider Abkhazia a sovereign territory of Georgia.
9 April 1989
Massacre of Tbilisi (also known as the Tbilisi tragedy or April 9 Tragedy) refers to the events in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, on 9 April 1989, when a peaceful anti-Soviet, pro-independence and nationalist demonstration was violently dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in the deaths of 21 Georgian civilians, with hundreds more injured. April 9 is now commemorated in Georgia as the National Unity Day (Georgian: ეროვნული ერთიანობის დღე, romanized: erovnuli ertianobis dghe), an annual public holiday.
22 December 1991 – 31 December 1993
The Georgian civil war of 1991–1993 (Georgian: 1991–1993 წლების ქართული სამოქალაქო ომი) lasted from 1991 to 1993 in the South Caucasian country Georgia. It began in December 1991 with the coup against the first democratically-elected President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, by the rebel factions of the Georgian National Guard and the Mkhedrioni paramilitary.
20 May 1992
Dzari Tragedy, Zar Tragedy (Iron Ossetic: Зары трагеди), or the Shooting on the Zar road (Russian: Расстрел на Зарской дороге), was a mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees in the administrative territory of Dzari, near the central city of Tskhinvali in Georgia's break-away South Ossetia region. The event took place on 20 May 1992, when a convoy of refugees from South Ossetia was stopped on the road through Dzari and shot at point-blank from machine guns.
24 June 1992
The Sochi Agreement (officially titled in Russian: «Соглашение о принципах мирного урегулирования грузино-осетинского конфликта»), also known as the Dagomys Agreement (Дагомысские соглашения), primarily refers to the ceasefire agreement signed by Georgia and Russia in Sochi on June 24, 1992, which ended the South Ossetia War. The term may also refer to other agreements concluded in Sochi, including the Russo-Ukrainian agreement on the division of the Black Sea Fleet on June 23, 1992, the failed ceasefire agreement between Georgia and Russia during the War in Abkhazia on July 27, 1993, and a…
14 August 1992 – 27 September 1993
The War in Abkhazia was fought between Georgian government and paramilitary forces, and a coalition of Abkhaz separatist forces and North Caucasian militants between 1992 and 1993. Ethnic Georgians who lived in Abkhazia fought largely on the side of Georgian government forces.
1 October 1992 – 6 October 1992
The Battle of Gagra, or Operation Storm was fought between Georgian forces and the Abkhaz secessionists aided by the Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus (CMPC) militants from 1 to 6 October 1992, during the War in Abkhazia. The allies, commanded by the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, captured the town of Gagra from the undermanned Georgian forces (which were reportedly fewer in numbers but possessed more tanks and armoured personnel carriers) in a surprise attack, leading to an outbreak of ethnic cleansing of local Georgian population.
9 July 1993
The Battle of Kamani was a battle in the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993), on July 9, 1993. The village was captured and many of its inhabitants were massacred or fled.
16 September 1993 – 27 September 1993
The Sukhumi massacre took place on 27 September 1993, during and after the fall of Sukhumi into separatist hands in the course of the War in Abkhazia. It was perpetrated against Georgian civilians of Sukhumi, mainly by militia forces of Abkhaz separatists and North Caucasian allies.
16 September 1993 – 27 September 1993
The Fall of Sukhumi or the Siege of Sukhumi occurred from 16 to 27 September 1993, involving the Abkhaz separatists, along with their Russian and North Caucasian backers, and Georgia, being the last engagement of the War in Abkhazia. The battle began on 16 September, when the separatists, aided by the local Russian military base, launched their offensive on Sukhumi, the capital city of the region, amidst the escalation of the Georgian Civil War.
23 September 1993
From 20 to 23 September 1993, during the Sukhumi massacre, separatists in Sukhumi, Abkhazia blocked Georgian troops' overland supply routes as part of the war in Abkhazia. In response, the Georgian government used Sukhumi Babushara Airport to ferry supplies to troops stationed in Sukhumi.
20 May 1998 – 26 May 1998
The 1998 Gali clashes took place in the Gali district of Abkhazia, after ethnic Georgians launched an insurgency against the Abkhazian separatist government. The conflict is sometimes referred to as the Six-Day War of Abkhazia; however, this name only takes into account the Abkhazian offensive that lasted from 20 to 26 May 1998, while hostilities and insurgent attacks had already occurred before that date.
26 August 1999 – 16 April 2009
The Second Chechen War (Russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, Chechen: Шолгӏа оьрсийн-нохчийн тӏом, lit. 'Second Russian-Chechen War') took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 to April 2009. In August 1999, Islamists from Chechnya infiltrated Dagestan in Russia.
29 February 2000 – 1 March 2000
The Battle for Height 776, part of the larger Battle of Ulus-Kert, was an engagement in the Second Chechen War that took place during fighting for control of the Argun River gorge in the highland Shatoysky District of central Chechnya, between the villages of Ulus-Kert and Selmentauzen. In late February 2000, the Russian military attempted to encircle and destroy a large Chechen force withdrawing from the Chechen capital Grozny to Shatoy and Vedeno in the southern mountains of Chechnya following the 1999–2000 siege and capture of Grozny.
7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021
The war in Afghanistan was a prolonged armed conflict from 2001 to 2021. It began with an invasion by a United States–led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the September 11 attacks (9/11) carried out by the Taliban-allied and Afghanistan-based al-Qaeda.
25 April 2002
The 2002 Tbilisi earthquake occurred on April 25 in the Caucasus country of Georgia. The United States' National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) placed the magnitude at 4.3 Ms and 4.8 mb.