List of battles involving Georgia (country)
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This is a list of the battles in the history of the country of Georgia.
This list only includes battles which have corresponding pages in Wikipedia.
The list gives the name, the date, the combatants, and the result of the battles following this legend:
- Georgian victory
- Georgian defeat
- Another result (*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result,
status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive) - Ongoing conflict
Antiquity
| Date | Battle | Modern Location | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Armenia Roman Empire |
Victory
|
Early medieval fragmentation
Kingdom of Georgia (1008–1490)
Royal triarchy and principalities (1490–1801)
Russian Empire
Georgian Democratic Republic (1918–1921)
| Date | Battle | Modern Location | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Battle of Batum[52]
|
Adjara, Georgia | Caucasus campaign | Transcaucasian Commissariat | Ottoman Empire | Defeat |
| 1918 | Battle of Choloki | Choloki River, Adjara, Georgia | Victory | |||
| 1918 | Battle of Mokvi | Ochamchire Municipality, Abkhazia, Georgia | Abkhazia conflict (1918) | Democratic Republic of Georgia | Ottoman Empire
| |
| 1919 | Battle of Gagra | Gagra Municipality, Abkhazia, Georgia | Sochi conflict | Democratic Republic of Georgia
Military support: |
White movement | Victory |
| 1921 | Battle of Tbilisi | Tbilisi, Georgia | Red Army invasion of Georgia | Democratic Republic of Georgia | Russian SFSR | Defeat |
| 1921 | Battle of Osiauri | Khashuri Municipality, Shida Kartli, Georgia | Russian SFSR | |||
| 1921 | Battle of Surami | Khashuri Municipality, Shida Kartli, Georgia | ||||
| 1921 | Battle of Batumi | Adjara, Georgia | Democratic Republic of Georgia
Supported by: |
Turkish Provisional Government | Victory |
Soviet Union (1922–1991)
Republic of Georgia (1991–)
Notes
- ^ Archaepolis
- ^ Or 1075[13]
- ^ Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti conclusively annexed to the Kingdom of Georgia in 1105
- ^ Ahlatshahs and Beylik of Dilmaç become vassal of the Kingdom of Georgia
- ^ Last battle between Eldiguzids and Kingdom of Georgia
- ^ Jahan Shah quietly left the battlefield at night and escaped to Tabriz
- ^ Last battle with Turkomans
- ^ Kingdom of Kartli recognizes the ascension of Gurian-supported Levan of Kakheti to the throne.
- ^ Principality of Samtskhe is annexed by Imereti
- ^ Death of both Shahverdi Sultan and Luarsab I of Kartli
- ^ Simon I of Kartli defeats Safavids in a battle, but is captured and imprisoned, while Daud Khan assumes nominal control of Kartli
- ^ Georgian-Kizilbash army fails to recapture Tbilisi[30]
- ^ Army of the Ottoman Empire fails to capture Kartli
- ^ King Simon I of Kartli liberates city Gori from the Ottoman Empire
- ^ Simon who was taken captive, was brought to Istanbul and imprisoned in Yedikule.
- ^ Vameq is confirmed as Prince of Mingrelia and Imereti restores hegemony over western Georgia.
- ^ 80,000 Turkoman and Persian killed by Georgians
- ^ George IV of Guria is crowned as King of Imereti, but George VII of Imereti soon regains power
- ^ Erivan Khanate becomes vassal of the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti[43]
- ^ Erivan Khanate and Ganja Khanate again become vassals of the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti[44]
- ^ Lower Guria remains under Ottoman control
- ^ Russian general Ivan Gudovich fails to capture Akhalkalaki and retreats while having lost a third of his forces.
- ^ Abkhazia joins Russian Empire as an autonomous principality
See also
References
- ^ Appian, p. 103.
- ^ Edwell, Peter (2021). Rome and Persia at War: Imperial Competition and Contact, 193–363 CE. Routledge. p. 36.
- ^ Asatiani & Janelidze 2009, p. 46.
- ^ Petersen 2013, p. 271.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Thomson 1996, p. 260.
- ^ Allen 2023, p. 89.
- ^ a b Rayfield 2012, p. 82.
- ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 197.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 127.
- ^ Peacock 2006, p. 130.
- ^ Minorsky 1953, p. 96.
- ^ Bogveradze, A. (1984). "Niali Battle 1191". Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia (PDF) (in Georgian). Vol. 7. Tbilisi: Metsniereba. p. 406.
- ^ (Silogava & Shengelia 2007, p. 68)
- ^ 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. 149.
- ^ Javakhishvili 1949, p. 193.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 225.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Rayfield 2012, p. 250.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 177.
- ^ Kalistrat Salia (1983). History of the Georgian Nation. Paris. p. 261.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 328.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 282.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 213.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 218.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 226.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 235.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 122.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 3.
- ^ Rayfield 2013, p. 240.
- ^ Fähnrich 2010, p. 292.
- ^ Rayfield 2013, p. 243.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 586.
- ^ Rayfield 2012, p. 255.
- ^ Khatuna Kokrashvili (2020). Anti-Russian Demonstrations in Georgia in the First Half of the XIX Century (PDF). Rondeli Foundation. p. 6.
- ^ Gürbüz, Musa (2009). "Turkish Military Activities in the Caucasus Following the 1917 Russian Revolution: The Battle of Sardarabad and its Political Consequences". Review of Armenian Studies. 19–20: 112.
- ^ a b Asatiani & Janelidze 2009, p. 392.
- ^ "Battle of Tamishi - Facing unexpected landing". Radio Freedom (in Georgian). 10 July 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
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