This is a list of the battles in the history of the country of Georgia.
The list gives the name, the date, the combatants, and the result of the battles following this legend:
- Georgian victory
- Georgian defeat
- Another result
- Ongoing conflict
(*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result,
status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
Antiquity
editDate | Battle | Modern Location | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
720 BC | Scytho-Cimmerian invasion of Colchis | Caucasia, Georgia, | Scythian invasions of Colchis | Colchis | Scythians Cimmerians |
Defeat |
284 BC | Battle of Artaan | Ardahan, Turkey, | Alexander's invasion of Iberia | Kingdom of Iberia, | Aryan Kartli Macedonian Empire |
Iberian Victory
•Death of Azo of Iberia |
65 BC | Battle of the Pelorus[1] | Aragvi River, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia | Caucasian campaign of Pompey | Kingdom of Iberia | Roman Republic | Defeat |
51 AD | Siege of Garni | Kotayk Province, Armenia | Iberian–Armenian War | Kingdom of Iberia | Kingdom of Armenia Roman Empire |
Victory
|
Early Medieval fragmentation
editKingdom of Georgia (1008–1490)
editRoyal triarchy and principalities (1490–1801)
editRussian Empire
editGeorgian Democratic Republic (1918–1921)
editRepublic of Georgia (1991–)
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Appian, p. 103.
- ^ Asatiani & Janelidze 2009, p. 46.
- ^ Petersen 2013, p. 271.
- ^ David Braund (1994). Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC-AD 562. Clarendon Press. pp. 299–300. ISBN 9780198144731.
- ^ a b Asatiani & Janelidze 2009, p. 47.
- ^ "Battle of Tsakhar 556". Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia (PDF) (in Georgian). Vol. 11. Tbilisi: Metsniereba. 1987. p. 265.
- ^ Kaegi 2003, p. 143.
- ^ Khalid Yahya Blankinship (1994). The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishām Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. State University of New York Press. p. 172. ISBN 9780791496831.
- ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition, p. 28. Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253209153
- ^ a b Mikaberidze 2015, p. 424.
- ^ Thomson 1996, p. 259.
- ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 159.
- ^ a b Thomson 1996, p. 260.
- ^ Thomson 1996, pp. 260–261.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, pp. 66.
- ^ a b Thomson 1996, p. 261.
- ^ Tavadze, Leri (2012). კურაპალატის ტიტული ტაო-კლარჯერთის ბაგრატიონთა სამეფო სახლში (ქართველთა სამეფოს პოლიტიკური ვითარება IX-X საუკუნეში) [Title of Kouropalates in the house of Bagrationis of Tao-Klarjeti (political circumstances of Kingdom of Georgians in the IX-X centuries] (in Georgian). Tbilisi. p. 81.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Asatiani & Janelidze 2009, p. 66-67.
- ^ Asatiani & Janelidze 2009, p. 66.
- ^ "Gurgen I". National Parliamentary Library of Georgia (in Georgian). Retrieved 2024-02-07.
- ^ Papaskiri, Zurab (2011). "The Byzantine Commonwealth and the International Status of the Georgian Political Units in the First Half of the 10th Century". The Caucasus & Globalization. 5 (3–4): 131.
- ^ Thomson 1996, p. 272.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, pp. 69–70.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 162.
- ^ Frye 1975, p. 237.
- ^ Frye 1975, pp. 237, 732.
- ^ Frye 1975, p. 241.
- ^ a b Narimanishvili & Shanshashvili 2018, p. 309.
- ^ Minorsky 1953, p. 43.
- ^ Allen 2023, p. 89.
- ^ Narimanishvili & Shanshashvili 2018, p. 310.
- ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 192.
- ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 193.
- ^ Thomson 1996, p. 310.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, pp. 83–84.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 100.
- ^ Baumer 2021, p. 18.
- ^ Peacock 2006, p. 130.
- ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 206.
- ^ Minorsky 1953, p. 93.
- ^ Minorsky 1953, p. 96.
- ^ Bogveradze, A. (1984). "Niali Battle 1191". Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia (PDF) (in Georgian). Vol. 7. Tbilisi: Metsniereba. p. 406.
- ^ Mariam Lortkipanidze (2006). Georgia in the XI-XII Centuries. Ganatleba Publishers. p. 151.
- ^ Pancaroğlu, Oya (2021). "Looking for Urban Agency in a City of Memorials: Tomb Towers of Late Thirteenth-Century Ahlat" (PDF). Medieval Worlds. 14: 121. doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no14_2021s117.
- ^ Allen 2023, p. 116.
- ^ "Battle of Kvishkheti 1260". Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia (PDF) (in Georgian). Vol. 10. Tbilisi: Metsniereba. 1986. p. 523.
- ^ Constantin d'Ohsson (1852). Histoire des Mongols: depuis Tchinguiz-Khan jusqu'à Timour Bey, ou Tamerlan (in French). Vol. IV. Les fères Van Cleef. p. 330.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 140.
- ^ Brosset, Marie-Félicité (1849). Histoire de la Géorgie, depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle - 1re partie. St. Petersburg: Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 149.
- ^ Javakhishvili 1949, p. 193.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 152.
- ^ Valeri Silogava; Kakha Shengelia (2007). History of Georgia: From the Ancient Times Through the "Rose Revolution". Caucasus University Publishing House. p. 272. ISBN 9789994086160.
- ^ a b Rayfield 2012, p. 219.
- ^ Nodar Asatiani; Otar Janelidze (2009). History of Georgia: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Publishing House Petite. p. 127. ISBN 9789941906367.
- ^ a b Rayfield 2012, p. 172.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 259.
- ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 324.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 175.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 177.
- ^ a b Asatiani & Janelidze 2009, p. 136.
- ^ a b Rayfield 2012, p. 179.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 180.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 548.
- ^ Kalistrat Salia (1983). History of the Georgian Nation. Paris. p. 261.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 328.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 199.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 213.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 218.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 226.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 235.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 617.
- ^ David Marshall Lang. Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, 1797–1889: a documentary record Columbia University Press, 1957 (digitalised March 2009, originally from the University of Michigan) p. 142.
- ^ Valeri Silogava, Kakha Shengelia. "History of Georgia: From the Ancient Times Through the "Rose Revolution" Caucasus University Publishing House, 2007 ISBN 978-9994086160 pp. 158, 278.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 120.
- ^ a b c Kakhaber Demetrashvili (2022). The Political Relationship of the Georgian Kings with the Rulers of the Shaki Khanate in the Middle of the 18th Century. Ilia State University. p. 2.
- ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 316.
- ^ a b Fähnrich 2010, p. 318.
- ^ Rayfield 2013, p. 240.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 586.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 263.
- ^ Khatuna Kokrashvili (2020). Anti-Russian Demonstrations in Georgia in the First Half of the XIX Century (PDF). Rondeli Foundation. p. 6.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 273.
- ^ Guria Uprising of 1841 // The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Volume 13. — Academic International Press, 1976. — P. 201. — ISBN 0-87569-064-5
- ^ Шанин, Революция как момент истины, 1997, с. 181
- ^ Chachkhiani, Archil (2014). Russia-Georgia Military-Political Relations and the Military Actions in Abkhazia and Black Sea Region (1918-1920) (PDF) (in Georgian). Tbilisi: The Academy of the Georgian National Defense Academy of David the Builder. pp. 144–149.
- ^ Political History of Russia. Vol. 5. Nova Science Publishers. 1995. p. 89.
- ^ Kenez, Peter (1970). "The Relations between the Volunteer Army and Georgia, 1918-1920: A Case Study in Disunity". The Slavonic and East European Review. 48 (112). Modern Humanities Research Association: 407. JSTOR 4206242.
- ^ "Taman Army March of 1918". The Free Dictionary.
- ^ "Exactly 95 years ago, Georgian army left Sochi". Voice of America (in Georgian). 7 February 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Georgia troops seize Gagra, Ardagan". Civil Georgia. 1 May 1919. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ USA House of Representatives Select Committee on Communist Aggression (1955). Communist Takeover and Occupation of Georgia (Report). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 7.
- ^ "Battle of Tamishi - Facing unexpected landing". Radio Freedom (in Georgian). 10 July 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
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