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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Conflicts between the Kingdom of Georgia and the Seljuq Empire from c. 1048 to 1213</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r963460841">@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .desktop-float-right{box-sizing:border-box;float:right;clear:right}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.vevent .status>p:first-child{margin:0}</style><table class="infobox vevent" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"><tbody><tr><th class="summary" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Georgian–Seljuk wars</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:King_David_IV_of_Georgia,_Roman_de_Troie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/King_David_IV_of_Georgia%2C_Roman_de_Troie.jpg/300px-King_David_IV_of_Georgia%2C_Roman_de_Troie.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/King_David_IV_of_Georgia%2C_Roman_de_Troie.jpg/450px-King_David_IV_of_Georgia%2C_Roman_de_Troie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/King_David_IV_of_Georgia%2C_Roman_de_Troie.jpg/600px-King_David_IV_of_Georgia%2C_Roman_de_Troie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1823" data-file-height="1489" /></a></span><br />A miniature depicting a battle with the Georgian king <a href="/wiki/David_IV_the_Builder" class="mw-redirect" title="David IV the Builder">David IV the Builder</a>. <i>Le <a href="/wiki/Roman_de_Troie" title="Roman de Troie">Roman de Troie</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Sainte-Maure" title="Benoît de Sainte-Maure">Benoît de Sainte-Maure</a>. King David is shown in purple robe on the right, wearing crown-helmet.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table style="width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;display:inline-table"><tbody><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Date</th><td>1064–1213</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Location</th><td><div class="location"><a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a>, eastern <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a></div></td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Result</th><td class="status"> Georgian victory</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Territorial<br />changes</th><td> Liberation of <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> and most of the <a href="/wiki/South_Caucasus" title="South Caucasus">South Caucasus</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="750" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Kingdom of Georgia</a><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kipchaks_in_Georgia" title="Kipchaks in Georgia">Kipchaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alania" title="Alania">Alania</a></li></ul></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <p><a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuk Empire</a><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eldiguzids" title="Eldiguzids">Eldiguzids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Tbilisi" title="Emirate of Tbilisi">Emirate of Tbilisi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaddadids" title="Shaddadids">Shaddadids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shah-Armens" title="Shah-Armens">Shah-Armens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artuqids" title="Artuqids">Artuqids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saltukids" title="Saltukids">Saltukids</a></li></ul> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Double-headed_eagle_of_the_Sultanate_of_Rum.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Double-headed_eagle_of_the_Sultanate_of_Rum.svg/25px-Double-headed_eagle_of_the_Sultanate_of_Rum.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" 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title="David IV">David IV</a><br /><a href="/wiki/George_of_Chqondidi" title="George of Chqondidi">George of Chqondidi</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barami&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barami (page does not exist)">Barami</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98" class="extiw" title="ka:ბარამი">ka</a>]</span><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sumbat_Orbeli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sumbat Orbeli (page does not exist)">Sumbat Orbeli</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9B%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" class="extiw" title="ka:სუმბატ ორბელი">ka</a>]</span><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ivane_I_Orbeli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivane I Orbeli (page does not 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href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ganja_(1046)" title="Battle of Ganja (1046)">Ganja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kapetron" title="Battle of Kapetron">Kapetron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Partskhisi" title="Battle of Partskhisi">Partskhisi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Turkish_Invasion" title="Great Turkish Invasion">Great Turkish Invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ertsukhi" title="Battle of Ertsukhi">Ertsukhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trialeti" title="Battle of Trialeti">Trialeti</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Tao&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Battle of Tao (page does not exist)">Tao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rakhsi" title="Battle of Rakhsi">Rakhsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Botora" title="Battle of Botora">Botora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Didgori" title="Battle of Didgori">Didgori</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>The <b>Georgian–Seljuk wars</b> (<a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Georgian</a>: <span title="Georgian-language text"><span lang="ka" style="font-style: normal;">საქართველო-სელჩუკთა ომები</span></span>, <span style="font-size: smaller;"><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Georgian" title="Romanization of Georgian">romanized</a>:</span> <span lang="ka-Latn" style="font-style: italic;">sakartvelo-selchuk'ta omebi</span>), also known as <b>Georgian Crusade</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a long series of battles and military clashes that took place from 1064 until 1213, between the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Kingdom of Georgia</a> and the different <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljukid states</a> that occupied most of <a href="/wiki/South_Caucasus" title="South Caucasus">South Caucasus</a>. The conflict is preceded by deadly raids in the Caucasus by the Turks in the 11th century, known in Georgian <a href="/wiki/Historiography" title="Historiography">historiography</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Great_Turkish_Invasion" title="Great Turkish Invasion">Great Turkish Invasion</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Georgian_wars" title="Byzantine–Georgian wars">Byzantine–Georgian wars</a></div><p>In 1048–9, the <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuk Turks</a> under <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Inal" title="Ibrahim Inal">Ibrahim Yinal</a> made their first incursion in <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> frontier region of <a href="/wiki/Iberia_(theme)" title="Iberia (theme)">Iberia</a>. The emperor <a href="/wiki/Constantine_IX_Monomachos" title="Constantine IX Monomachos">Constantine IX</a> requested help from the Georgian <a href="/wiki/Duke" title="Duke">duke</a> <a href="/wiki/Liparit_IV,_Duke_of_Kldekari" class="mw-redirect" title="Liparit IV, Duke of Kldekari">Liparit IV of Kldekari</a>, whom the Byzantines had aided in his <a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Georgian_wars#Liparit_IV_of_Kldekari" title="Byzantine–Georgian wars">struggle</a> against the Georgian king <a href="/wiki/Bagrat_IV_of_Georgia" title="Bagrat IV of Georgia">Bagrat IV</a>. Liparit, who had been fighting on the Byzantine side, was captured at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kapetron" title="Battle of Kapetron">Battle of Kapetron</a>. Bagrat took advantage of this, and acquired his possessions. </p><p>Although the Byzantine Empire and Georgia had centuries-long cultural and religious ties, and the Seljuqs posed a substantial threat to the empire itself, Constantinople's aggressiveness on the Caucasian political scene contributed to an atmosphere of distrust and recrimination, and prevented the two Christian nations from effective cooperation against the common threat. 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margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Seljuk Empire circa 1090, during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Malik_Shah_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Malik Shah I">Malik Shah I</a>. To the west, <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> was under the independent rule of <a href="/wiki/Suleiman_ibn_Qutalmish" title="Suleiman ibn Qutalmish">Suleiman ibn Qutalmish</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum" title="Sultanate of Rum">Sultanate of Rum</a>, and disputed with the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. To the east, the <a href="/wiki/Kara-Khanid_Khanate" title="Kara-Khanid Khanate">Kara-Khanid Khanate</a> became a vassal state in 1089, for half a century, before falling to the <a href="/wiki/Qara_Khitai" title="Qara Khitai">Qara Khitai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeacock201562–63_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeacock201562–63-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></div></div> <p>The second half of the 11th century was marked by the strategically significant invasion of the Seljuq Turks, who by the end of the 1040s had succeeded in building a vast empire including most of <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Persia</a>. These intruders were part of the same wave of the Turkish movement which inflicted a crushing defeat on the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> army at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert" title="Battle of Manzikert">Manzikert</a> in 1071.<sup id="cite_ref-Suny-3422_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Suny-3422-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuks</a> first appeared in Georgia in 1064, when Sultan <a href="/wiki/Alp_Arslan" title="Alp Arslan">Alp Arslan</a> led a army from <a href="/wiki/Ray,_Iran" title="Ray, Iran">Ray</a> to <a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_Autonomous_Republic" title="Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic">Nakhchivan</a> and captured some castles garrisoned by <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> troops. He then handed over the command to his son <a href="/wiki/Malik-Shah_I" title="Malik-Shah I">Malik-Shah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nizam_al-Mulk" title="Nizam al-Mulk">Nizam al-Mulk</a>, they marched westward and captured the <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenian</a> fortified city of <a href="/wiki/Marmashen" title="Marmashen">Marmashen</a>. Then the Seljuks marched north and captured the Georgian fortified city of <a href="/wiki/Akhalkalaki" title="Akhalkalaki">Akhalkalaki</a>, which they set on fire. Faced with the growing threat from the east, Georgia and Byzantine overcame their decades-old enmity and entered a matrimonial alliance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaumer202310_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaumer202310-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1068, Alp Arslan accompanied by his vassals, <a href="/wiki/Aghsartan_I_of_Kakheti" title="Aghsartan I of Kakheti">Aghsartan I of Kakheti</a> and king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Tashir-Dzoraget" title="Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget">Lori</a> as well as the <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Tbilisi" title="Emirate of Tbilisi">emir of Tbilisi</a> marched against Bagrat again, who had to vacate <a href="/wiki/Kakheti" title="Kakheti">Kakheti</a> and retreat to <a href="/wiki/Kartli" title="Kartli">Kartli</a>. The provinces of Kartli and <a href="/wiki/Argveti" title="Argveti">Argveti</a> were occupied and pillaged. The retreated king was saved when severe snowfalls set in and Alp Arslan left Kartli. As the Sultan passed <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>, he gave the small emirate to <a href="/wiki/Fadl_ibn_Shavur" title="Fadl ibn Shavur">Fadl ibn Shavur</a>. Fadl encamped at Isani and with 33,000 men ravaged the countryside. As soon as Alp Arslan left Georgia, Bagrat quickly recovered Kartli and crushed emir fadl who was managed to flee with a few followers only to fall into the hands of Aghsartan. At the price of conceding several fortresses on the <a href="/wiki/Iori_(river)" title="Iori (river)">Iori River</a>, Bagrat ransomed Fadl and received from him the surrender of Tbilisi where he reinstated a local emir on the terms of vassalage.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaumer202310–11_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaumer202310–11-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Seljuk threat prompted the Georgian and Byzantine governments to seek a closer cooperation. To secure the alliance, Bagrat's daughter <a href="/wiki/Maria_of_Alania" title="Maria of Alania">Maria</a> married, at some point between 1066 and 1071, to the Byzantine co-emperor <a href="/wiki/Michael_VII_Doukas" title="Michael VII Doukas">Michael VII Ducas</a>. The choice of a Georgian princess was unprecedented, and it was seen in Georgia as a diplomatic success on Bagrat's side.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Great_Turkish_Invasion">Great Turkish Invasion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Great Turkish Invasion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Great_Turkish_Invasion" title="Great Turkish Invasion">Great Turkish Invasion</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colchis" title="Colchis">Colchis</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Aryan_Kartli" title="Aryan Kartli">Aryan Kartli</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iberia" title="Kingdom of Iberia">Kingdom of Iberia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Pharnavazid_dynasty" title="Pharnavazid dynasty">Pharnavazid dynasty</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Georgia_in_the_Roman_era" title="Georgia in the Roman era">Georgia in the Roman era</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Artaxiad_dynasty_of_Iberia" title="Artaxiad dynasty of Iberia">Artaxiad dynasty of Iberia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Caucasian_campaign_of_Pompey" title="Caucasian campaign of Pompey">Campaign of Pompey</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Iberian%E2%80%93Armenian_War" title="Iberian–Armenian War">Iberian–Armenian War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lazica" title="Lazica">Lazica</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Arsacid_dynasty_of_Iberia" title="Arsacid dynasty of Iberia">Arsacid dynasty of Iberia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Iberia" title="Sasanian Iberia">Sasanian Iberia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Chosroid_dynasty" title="Chosroid dynasty">Chosroid dynasty</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_Iberia" title="Christianization of Iberia">Christianization of Iberia</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Medieval_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval Georgia">Middle Ages</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iberian_War" title="Iberian War">Iberian War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lazic_War" title="Lazic War">Lazic War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Iberia" title="Principality of Iberia">Principality of Iberia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Umayyad_invasion_of_Georgia" title="Umayyad invasion of Georgia">Umayyad invasion of Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Arab_rule_in_Georgia" title="Arab rule in Georgia">Arab rule in Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Tbilisi" title="Emirate of Tbilisi">Emirate of Tbilisi</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Tao_(historical_region)" title="Tao (historical region)">Duchy of Tao</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Klarjeti" title="Klarjeti">Duchy of Klarjeti</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Bagrationi_dynasty" title="Bagrationi dynasty">Bagrationi dynasty</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hereti" title="Kingdom of Hereti">Kingdom of Hereti</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Iberians" title="Kingdom of the Iberians">Kingdom of the Iberians</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Abkhazia" title="Kingdom of Abkhazia">Kingdom of Abkhazia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Iberia_(theme)" title="Iberia (theme)">Theme of Iberia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Kldekari" title="Duchy of Kldekari">Duchy of Kldekari</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Unification_of_the_Georgian_realm" title="Unification of the Georgian realm">Unification of the Georgian realm</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Kingdom of Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Racha" title="Duchy of Racha">Duchy of Racha</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kakheti-Hereti" title="Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti">Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Georgian_wars" title="Byzantine–Georgian wars">Byzantine–Georgian wars</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Great_Turkish_Invasion" title="Great Turkish Invasion">Great Turkish Invasion</a><br /><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Georgian–Seljuk wars</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Golden_Age" title="Georgian Golden Age">Georgian Golden Age</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Georgia" title="Mongol invasions of Georgia">Mongol invasions of Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Eastern_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Eastern Georgia">Kingdom of Eastern Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Western_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Western Georgia">Kingdom of Western Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Zakarid_Armenia" title="Zakarid Armenia">Armenia within the Kingdom of Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Timurid_invasions_of_Georgia" title="Timurid invasions of Georgia">Timurid invasions of Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Turkoman_invasions_of_Georgia" title="Turkoman invasions of Georgia">Turkoman invasions of Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Aragvi" title="Duchy of Aragvi">Duchy of Aragvi</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Georgian_realm" title="Collapse of the Georgian realm">Collapse of the Georgian realm</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Early_modern_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Early modern Georgia">Early modern history</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Ksani" title="Duchy of Ksani">Duchy of Ksani</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Samtskhe-Saatabago" title="Samtskhe-Saatabago">Samtskhe-Saatabago</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kartli" title="Kingdom of Kartli">Kingdom of Kartli</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kakheti" title="Kingdom of Kakheti">Kingdom of Kakheti</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Imereti" title="Kingdom of Imereti">Kingdom of Imereti</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Guria" title="Principality of Guria">Principality of Guria</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Svaneti" title="Principality of Svaneti">Principality of Svaneti</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Mingrelia" title="Principality of Mingrelia">Principality of Mingrelia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Abkhazia" title="Principality of Abkhazia">Principality of Abkhazia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Safavid_Georgia" title="Safavid Georgia">Safavid Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Childir_Eyalet" title="Childir Eyalet">Childir Eyalet</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kartli-Kakheti" title="Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti">Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Modern_history_of_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern history of Georgia">Modern history</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_within_the_Russian_Empire" title="Georgia within the Russian Empire">Georgia within the Russian Empire</a><br /><a href="/wiki/1832_Georgian_plot" title="1832 Georgian plot">1832 Georgian plot</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Gurian_Republic" title="Gurian Republic">Gurian Republic</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Transcaucasian_Democratic_Federative_Republic" title="Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic">Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Georgia" title="Democratic Republic of Georgia">Democratic Republic of Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Red_Army_invasion_of_Georgia" title="Red Army invasion of Georgia">Red Army invasion of Georgia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic">Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic</a><br /><a href="/wiki/History_of_Georgia_(country)_since_1991" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Georgia (country) since 1991">Georgia since 1991</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War" title="Russo-Georgian War">Russo-Georgian War</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">History by topic</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Names_of_Georgia" title="Names of Georgia">Etymology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_Georgian_monarchs" title="Lists of Georgian monarchs">Monarchs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_historical_states_of_Georgia" title="List of historical states of Georgia">States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Tbilisi" title="History of Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Georgia" title="Military history of Georgia">Military history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Georgia_(country)" title="List of wars involving Georgia (country)">Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Georgian_battles" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Georgian battles">Battles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Georgian_history" title="Timeline of Georgian history">Chronology</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr></tbody></table> <p>Although the Georgians were able to recover from Alp Arslan's invasion, the Byzantine withdrawal from <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> brought them in more direct contact with the Seljuqs. In the 1070s, Georgia was twice attacked by the Sultan <a href="/wiki/Malik-Shah_I" title="Malik-Shah I">Malik Shah I</a>, but the Georgian King George II <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Partskhisi" title="Battle of Partskhisi">was still able to fight back</a> at times.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomson-310_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomson-310-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1076 Malik Shah surged into Georgia and reduced many settlements to ruins, from 1079/80 onward, George was pressured into submitting to Malik-Shah to ensure a precious degree of peace at the price of an annual <a href="/wiki/Tribute" title="Tribute">tribute</a>. George's acceptance of the Seljuq suzerainty did not bring a real peace for Georgia. The Turks continued their seasonal movement into the Georgian territory to make use of the rich herbage of the <a href="/wiki/Kura_(Caspian_Sea)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kura (Caspian Sea)">Kura valley</a> and the Seljuq garrisons occupied the key fortresses in Georgia's south.<sup id="cite_ref-Allen-98_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen-98-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These inroads and settlements had a ruinous effect on Georgia's economic and political order. Cultivated lands were turned into pastures for the nomads and peasant farmers were compelled to seek safety in the mountains.<sup id="cite_ref-Suny-342_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Suny-342-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>George II was able to garner the Seljuk military support in his campaign aimed at bringing the eastern Georgian kingdom of <a href="/wiki/First_Kingdom_of_Kakheti" class="mw-redirect" title="First Kingdom of Kakheti">Kakheti</a>, which had long resisted the Bagratid attempts of annexation. However, tired with a protracted siege of the Kakhetian stronghold of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vezhini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vezhini (page does not exist)">Vezhini</a>, George abandoned the campaign when snow fell. The Seljuk auxiliaries also lifted the siege and plundered the fertile Iori Valley in Kakheti. <a href="/wiki/Aghsartan_I_of_Kakheti" title="Aghsartan I of Kakheti">Aghsartan I</a>, king of Kakheti, went to the sultan to declare his submission, and in token of loyalty embraced <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, thus winning a Seljuk protection against the aspirations of the Georgian crown.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> George II's wavering character and incompetent political decisions coupled with the Seljuk yoke brought the Kingdom of Georgia into a profound crisis which climaxed in the aftermath of a <a href="/wiki/1088_Tmogvi_earthquake" title="1088 Tmogvi earthquake">disastrous earthquake</a> that struck Georgia in 1088.</p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Donor_figure_wearing_sharbush,_qaba_and_tiraz._Church_of_the_Archangels,_Zemo-Krikhi,_Racha,_northern_Georgia,_Inv._No._03086-75.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Donor_figure_wearing_sharbush%2C_qaba_and_tiraz._Church_of_the_Archangels%2C_Zemo-Krikhi%2C_Racha%2C_northern_Georgia%2C_Inv._No._03086-75.jpg/220px-Donor_figure_wearing_sharbush%2C_qaba_and_tiraz._Church_of_the_Archangels%2C_Zemo-Krikhi%2C_Racha%2C_northern_Georgia%2C_Inv._No._03086-75.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="314" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Donor_figure_wearing_sharbush%2C_qaba_and_tiraz._Church_of_the_Archangels%2C_Zemo-Krikhi%2C_Racha%2C_northern_Georgia%2C_Inv._No._03086-75.jpg/330px-Donor_figure_wearing_sharbush%2C_qaba_and_tiraz._Church_of_the_Archangels%2C_Zemo-Krikhi%2C_Racha%2C_northern_Georgia%2C_Inv._No._03086-75.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Donor_figure_wearing_sharbush%2C_qaba_and_tiraz._Church_of_the_Archangels%2C_Zemo-Krikhi%2C_Racha%2C_northern_Georgia%2C_Inv._No._03086-75.jpg/440px-Donor_figure_wearing_sharbush%2C_qaba_and_tiraz._Church_of_the_Archangels%2C_Zemo-Krikhi%2C_Racha%2C_northern_Georgia%2C_Inv._No._03086-75.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1790" data-file-height="2558" /></a><figcaption>The <i><a href="/wiki/Eristavi" title="Eristavi">eristavi</a></i> Kvariani, as a donor figure wearing <i><a href="/wiki/Sharbush" title="Sharbush">sharbush</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Qaba" title="Qaba">qaba</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Tiraz" title="Tiraz">tiraz</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Zemo_Krikhi_church" title="Zemo Krikhi church">Church of the Archangels</a>, Zemo-Krikhi, Racha, northern Georgia. 11th century, Inv. No. 03086-75.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Georgian_Reconquista">Georgian Reconquista</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Georgian Reconquista"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reign_of_David_IV">Reign of David IV</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Reign of David IV"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_IV,_detail_from_icon_at_Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/David_IV%2C_detail_from_icon_at_Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery.jpg/170px-David_IV%2C_detail_from_icon_at_Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="407" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/David_IV%2C_detail_from_icon_at_Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery.jpg/255px-David_IV%2C_detail_from_icon_at_Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/David_IV%2C_detail_from_icon_at_Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="315" data-file-height="755" /></a><figcaption>David IV, detail from icon at Saint Catherine's Monastery, 12th century.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1110 the <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> led by <a href="/wiki/George_of_Chqondidi" title="George of Chqondidi">George Chqondideli</a>, his nephew Theodore, <a href="/wiki/Abuletisdze" title="Abuletisdze">Abuleti</a> and Ivane <a href="/wiki/Orbelian_dynasty" title="Orbelian dynasty">Orbelian</a>, retaliated against the <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuk</a> settlement and recaptured the town of <a href="/wiki/Samshvilde" title="Samshvilde">Samshvilde</a>, which was added to the royal domains, without a major battle.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESamushia201529_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESamushia201529-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following this capture, the Seljuks left a large part of their captured territories, allowing Georgian troops to capture <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dzerna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dzerna (page does not exist)">Dzerna</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AB%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90" class="extiw" title="ka:ძერნა">ka</a>]</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201166_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201166-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Responding to this double defeat, Sultan <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_I_Tapar" title="Muhammad I Tapar">Muhammad I Tapar</a> in 1110, sent a large army with the aim of invading <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>. Knowing of the approach of Turkish troops, David IV left his home at Nacharmagevi with a personal guard of only 1,500 men and set out to meet the invaders during the night.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaukhchishvili1955333_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaukhchishvili1955333-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two armies, clearly unequal, clashed the next day at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trialeti" title="Battle of Trialeti">Battle of Trialeti</a> in a hard fight which ended in a decisive victory for Georgia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAllen193298_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen193298-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201166_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201166-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaukhchishvili1955333_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaukhchishvili1955333-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Battle of Trialeti deprived the <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuk Empire</a> of the opportunity to conduct a major military campaign against <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Georgia</a>. In 1110–1114, David IV did not conduct active military operations either. In 1115, <a href="/wiki/Roger_of_Salerno" title="Roger of Salerno">Roger of Salerno</a> defeated the <a href="/wiki/Atabeg" title="Atabeg">Atabag</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sarmin" title="Battle of Sarmin">Battle of Sarmin</a>. After that, David became active again and in 1115-1118 he captured <a href="/wiki/Rustavi" title="Rustavi">Rustavi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201166_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201166-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESamushia201529_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESamushia201529-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><a href="/wiki/Lori_Fortress" title="Lori Fortress">Lori</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201166_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201166-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Agarani_Fortress" title="Agarani Fortress">Agarani</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHistory_of_Georgia2012387_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHistory_of_Georgia2012387-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also defeated the Seljuks at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rakhsi" title="Battle of Rakhsi">Battle of Rakhsi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHistory_of_Georgia2012386_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHistory_of_Georgia2012386-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Problems began to crop up for David now. His population, having been at war for the better part of twenty years, needed to be allowed to become productive again. Also, his nobles were still making problems for him, along with the city of <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> which still could not be liberated from <a href="/wiki/Seljuq_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Seljuq dynasty">Seljuk</a> grasp. Again David was forced to solve these problems before he could continue the reclamation of his nation and people. For this purpose, David IV radically reformed his military. He resettled a <a href="/wiki/Kipchaks" title="Kipchaks">Kipchak</a> tribe of 40,000 families from the <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasus" title="North Caucasus">Northern Caucasus</a> in Georgia in 1118–1120.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorris200936_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorris200936-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Every Georgian and Kipchak family was obliged to provide one soldier with a horse and weapons. Kipchaks were settled in different regions of Georgia. Some were settled in <a href="/wiki/Shida_Kartli" title="Shida Kartli">Inner Kartli</a> province, others were given lands along the border. They were <a href="/wiki/Christianization" title="Christianization">Christianized</a> and quickly assimilated into <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgian society</a>. </p><p>In February 1116 by the order of David IV, the army of <a href="/wiki/Kartli" title="Kartli">Kartli</a> and <a href="/wiki/Meskhetians" title="Meskhetians">Meskhetians</a> were gathered at <a href="/wiki/Klarjeti" title="Klarjeti">Klarjeti</a>, David IV suddenly attacked and destroyed the Turks in <a href="/wiki/Tao_(historical_region)" title="Tao (historical region)">Tao</a> and captured <a href="/wiki/Tao-Klarjeti_(historical_region)" title="Tao-Klarjeti (historical region)">Tao-Klarjeti</a> and the numerous riches left by the Turks.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201167_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201167-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJavakhishvili194947_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJavakhishvili194947-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 1120, David IV defeated the Seljuks at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Botora" title="Battle of Botora">Battle of Botora</a>. In the battle the <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> captured many opponents and gained a lot of booty.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201180_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201180-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 1120, David's army attacked and defeated the Seljuks in <a href="/wiki/Arsharunik" title="Arsharunik">Arsharunik</a> and Sevgelamej, And in 1121 he did the same in Khunan. In June 1121, David with the <a href="/wiki/Kipchaks_in_Georgia" title="Kipchaks in Georgia">Kipchaks</a> raided the camped Seljuks in <a href="/wiki/Barda,_Azerbaijan" title="Barda, Azerbaijan">Barda</a>. In all these episodes the camp was destroyed meaning that the Georgian army managed to secretly approach it and perform a surprise attack.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201180_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli201180-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1121, <a href="/wiki/Mahmud_II_of_Great_Seljuq" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahmud II of Great Seljuq">Sultan Mahmud b. Muhammad</a> (1118–1131) declared a <a href="/wiki/Religious_war" title="Religious war">holy war</a> on Georgia and rallied a large coalition of Muslim states led by the <a href="/wiki/Artuqids" title="Artuqids">Artuqid</a> <a href="/wiki/Ilghazi" title="Ilghazi">Ilghazi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tughril_II" title="Tughril II">Toğrul b. Muhammad</a>. The size of the Muslim army is still a matter of debate with numbers ranging from a fantastic 600,000 men (<a href="/wiki/Walter_the_Chancellor" title="Walter the Chancellor">Walter the Chancellor</a>'s Bella Antiochena, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_of_Edessa" title="Matthew of Edessa">Matthew of Edessa</a>) to 400,000 (<a href="/wiki/Smbat_Sparapet" class="mw-redirect" title="Smbat Sparapet">Smbat Sparapet</a>'s Chronicle) to modern Georgian estimates of 250,000–400,000 men. All sources agree that the Muslim powers gathered an army that was much larger than the Georgian force of 56,000 men. However, on 12 August 1121, King David routed the enemy army on the field of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Didgori" title="Battle of Didgori">Didgori</a>, achieving what is often considered the greatest military success in Georgian history. The victory at Didgori signaled the emergence of Georgia as a great military power and shifted the regional balance in favor of Georgian cultural and political supremacy. Following his success, David <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Tbilisi_(1122)" title="Siege of Tbilisi (1122)">captured Tbilisi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPubblici202220_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPubblici202220-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the last Muslim enclave remaining from the Seljuk occupation, in 1122 and moved the Georgian capital there and inaugurated <a href="/wiki/Georgian_Golden_Age" title="Georgian Golden Age">Georgia's Golden Age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-javaxisvili2_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-javaxisvili2-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ani" title="Ani">Ani's</a> <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a> appealed to King David IV to <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Ani_(1124)" title="Siege of Ani (1124)">capture Ani</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHasratyan2002_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHasratyan2002-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> taking this opportunity in hand, David IV summoned all his armies and entered <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> with 60,000 men to take the city. Without a single fight, the Armenian population of Ani opened the gates to the <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsatianiBendianashvili1997125_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsatianiBendianashvili1997125-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who captured emir <a href="/wiki/Abu%27l-Aswar_Shavur_ibn_Manuchihr" title="Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Manuchihr">Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Manuchihr</a> and exiled him and his family to <a href="/wiki/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a>. The region was then left to the governance of the <a href="/wiki/Meskheti" title="Meskheti">Meskhetian</a> nobility, to General <a href="/wiki/Abuletisdze" title="Abuletisdze">Abuleti</a> and his son Ivane.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinorsky195384–85_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinorsky195384–85-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Northern <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> was thus annexed and incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Kingdom of Georgia</a>, increasing the power of David IV in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011114_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011114-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Georgian_conquest_of_Shirvan">Georgian conquest of Shirvan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Georgian conquest of Shirvan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Tbilisi_(1122)" title="Siege of Tbilisi (1122)">recapture of Tbilisi</a> in 1122 by <a href="/wiki/David_IV" title="David IV">David IV</a> thus established the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Kingdom of Georgia</a> as the supreme protector of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a>, and the Georgians now attempted to assert their domination by trying to reduce the Muslim presence in the region, which was considered an ally of the <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuk Empire</a>. This was the case in <a href="/wiki/Shirvan" title="Shirvan">Shirvan</a>, whose sovereign, who had already been defeated several times by Georgian troops, remained too independent of Georgian power and was forcibly replaced by David IV's sons-in-law, <a href="/wiki/Manuchihr_III_of_Shirvan" title="Manuchihr III of Shirvan">Manuchihr III</a>, in 1120. The Seljuks, alarmed by the situation in Caucasus, decided to respond militarily. </p><p>Sultan <a href="/wiki/Mahmud_II_(Seljuk_sultan)" title="Mahmud II (Seljuk sultan)">Mahmud II</a> soon resumed the war against Georgia, despite his defeat at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Didgori" title="Battle of Didgori">Battle of Didgori</a> a year earlier. In November 1122, he began his invasion of Shirvan and captured <a href="/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a>, before reaching the local capital, <a href="/wiki/Shamakhi" title="Shamakhi">Shamakhi</a>, the following spring.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESalia1980181_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalia1980181-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mahmud then captured the Shirvanshah Manuchihr III and sent a letter to David IV saying: "You are the king of the forests, and you never go down to the plains. Now I have captured the Shirvanshah and I demand <a href="/wiki/Kharaj" title="Kharaj">Kharaj</a> [tribute] from him. If you wish, send me suitable gifts; if not, come and see me in all haste".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011110–111_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011110–111-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrosset1849367–368_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrosset1849367–368-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following this provocation, David IV called in all his troops and assembled an army of 50,000 men, most of them <a href="/wiki/Kipchaks" title="Kipchaks">Kipchaks</a>. The Seljuk sultan locked himself in Shamakhi after learning of the arrival of the Georgian troops, prompting David IV to halt his advance, deeming it disrespectful to pursue a retreating army. Mahmud II then offered David IV the opportunity to regain control of his vassal province if he let him leave in peace, but the Georgian king categorically refused and resumed his march towards the Shirvan capital after defeating an army of 4,000 Turks led by the <a href="/wiki/Atabeg" title="Atabeg">atabeg</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arran_(Caucasus)" title="Arran (Caucasus)">Arran</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Aqsunqur_Ahmadili&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aqsunqur Ahmadili (page does not exist)">Aqsunqur Ahmadili</a>, which was on its way to help Mahmud II. Once he had laid siege to Shamakhi, the Seljuk left the city in a hurry via the commune's excrement drainage system.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011111_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011111-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsatianiBendianashvili1997125_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsatianiBendianashvili1997125-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 1123, a month after the Seljuk defeat, David IV invaded Shirvan, starting by capturing the town of <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCl%C3%BCstan,_Goranboy" title="Gülüstan, Goranboy">Gulistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011111_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011111-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another military campaign was organized in September 1124 in <a href="/wiki/Shirvan" title="Shirvan">Shirvan</a>, under obscure circumstances. David IV managed to recover <a href="/wiki/Shamakhi" title="Shamakhi">Shamakhi</a> and took the citadel of Bigrit, before strengthening his power in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hereti" title="Kingdom of Hereti">Hereti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kakheti" title="Kakheti">Kakheti</a> by leaving strong garrisons of soldiers there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrosset1849370_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrosset1849370-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David IV completely freed Shirvan from the Seljuks and annexed the western Shirvan, handing its government over to <i><a href="/wiki/Mtsignobartukhutsesi" title="Mtsignobartukhutsesi">Mtsignobartukhutsesi</a></i> Simon. David IV left the eastern Shirvan to his son-in-law, Manuchihr III as a Georgian protectorate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaumer202317_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaumer202317-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David IV's battles were of great importance both for Georgia and, especially, for Shirvan. The joint struggle of the <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> and the people of Shirvan ensured the independence of Shirvan from the Seljuk conquerors. From now on, Georgia and Shirvan became closer to each other.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011112_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMetreveli2011112-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reign_of_Demetrius_I">Reign of Demetrius I</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Reign of Demetrius I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:King_Demetre_I_wearing_front-opening_qaba_with_Arabic_tiraz_bands_inscribed_in_Kufic_script,_first_half_of_the_12th_centuryn_Macxvarisi,_Svaneti,_northern_Georgia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/King_Demetre_I_wearing_front-opening_qaba_with_Arabic_tiraz_bands_inscribed_in_Kufic_script%2C_first_half_of_the_12th_centuryn_Macxvarisi%2C_Svaneti%2C_northern_Georgia.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/King_Demetre_I_wearing_front-opening_qaba_with_Arabic_tiraz_bands_inscribed_in_Kufic_script%2C_first_half_of_the_12th_centuryn_Macxvarisi%2C_Svaneti%2C_northern_Georgia.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/King_Demetre_I_wearing_front-opening_qaba_with_Arabic_tiraz_bands_inscribed_in_Kufic_script%2C_first_half_of_the_12th_centuryn_Macxvarisi%2C_Svaneti%2C_northern_Georgia.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1753" data-file-height="2105" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Georgia" title="Demetrius I of Georgia">Demetrius I</a> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Maglakeli" title="Michael Maglakeli">Michael Maglakeli</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Matskhvarishi_church_of_the_Savior" title="Matskhvarishi church of the Savior">Matskhvarishi</a>, 1140. He is wearing front-opening <i><a href="/wiki/Qaba" title="Qaba">qaba</a></i> with Arabic <i><a href="/wiki/Tiraz" title="Tiraz">tiraz</a></i> bands inscribed in Kufic script.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The kingdom continued to flourish under <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Georgia" title="Demetrius I of Georgia">Demetrius I</a>, the son of David. Although his reign saw a disruptive family conflict related to royal succession, Georgia remained a centralized power with a strong military. As soon as he ascended to the throne, the neighbouring Muslim rulers began attacking Georgia from all sides. The Seljuqid sultans fought to restore the rule of the <a href="/wiki/Shirvanshah" class="mw-redirect" title="Shirvanshah">Shirvanshahs</a>. Shirvan's large Muslim population rose against Georgia. This probably happened in 1129 or 1130, when Demetrius restored the Shirvanshahs to power in <a href="/wiki/Shirvan" title="Shirvan">Shirvan</a>, installing on the throne <a href="/wiki/Manuchihr_II_of_Shirvan" title="Manuchihr II of Shirvan">Manuchihr II</a>, the husband of his daughter <a href="/wiki/Rusudan,_daughter_of_Demetrius_I_of_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Rusudan, daughter of Demetrius I of Georgia">Rusudan</a>. Shirvanshahs had to provide the Georgian king with troops whenever the latter demanded it. </p><p>In 1139, Demetrius raided the city of <a href="/wiki/Ganja,_Azerbaijan" title="Ganja, Azerbaijan">Ganja</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arran_(Caucasus)" title="Arran (Caucasus)">Arran</a>. He brought the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Gates_of_Ganja" title="Ancient Gates of Ganja">iron gate</a> of the defeated city to Georgia and donated it to <a href="/wiki/Gelati_Monastery" title="Gelati Monastery">Gelati Monastery</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kutaisi" title="Kutaisi">Kutaisi</a>. Despite this brilliant victory, Demetrius could hold Ganja only for a few years.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In reply to this, the sultan of Eldiguzids attacked Ganja several times, and in 1143 the town again fell to the sultan. According to <a href="/wiki/Mkhitar_Gosh" title="Mkhitar Gosh">Mkhitar Gosh</a>, Demetrius ultimately gained possession of Ganja, but, when he gave his daughter in marriage to the sultan, he presented the latter with the town as dowry, and the sultain appointed his own emir to rule it. </p><p>Fadl's successor, <a href="/wiki/Fakr_al-Din_Shaddad_ibn_Mahmud" title="Fakr al-Din Shaddad ibn Mahmud">Fakr al-Din Shaddad</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Shaddadids" title="Shaddadids">Shaddadid</a> emir of Ani asked for <a href="/wiki/Saltuk_II" title="Saltuk II">Saltuk</a>'s daughter's hand, however Saltuk refused him. This caused a deep hatred in Shaddad towards Saltuk. In 1154 he planned a plot and formed a secret alliance with the Demetrius I. While a Georgian army waited in ambush, he offered tribute to <a href="/wiki/Saltukids" title="Saltukids">Saltukids</a>, ruler of <a href="/wiki/Erzurum" title="Erzurum">Erzerum</a> and asked the latter to accept him as a vassal. In 1153–1154 Emir <a href="/wiki/Saltuk_II" title="Saltuk II">Saltuk II</a> marched on Ani, but Shaddad informed his suzerain, the King of Georgia, of this. Demetrius marched to Ani, defeated and captured the emir. At the request of neighbouring Muslim rulers and released him for a ransom of 100,000 <a href="/wiki/Dinar" title="Dinar">dinars</a>, paid by Saltuk's sons in law and Saltuk swore not to fight against the Georgians he returned home.<sup id="cite_ref-YS_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YS-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reign_of_George_III">Reign of George III</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reign of George III"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> In 1156 the Ani's Christian population rose against the emir <a href="/wiki/Fakr_al-Din_Shaddad_ibn_Mahmud" title="Fakr al-Din Shaddad ibn Mahmud">Fakr al-Din Shaddad</a>, and turned the town over to his brother <a href="/wiki/Fadl_ibn_Mahmud" title="Fadl ibn Mahmud">Fadl ibn Mahmud</a>. But Fadl, too, apparently could not satisfy the people of Ani, and this time the town was offered to the George III, who took advantage of this offer and subjugated Ani, he took much loot from Ani and carried off into captivity the whole family of <a href="/wiki/Shaddadids" title="Shaddadids">Shaddadids</a>, including Fadl. Appointing his general <a href="/wiki/House_of_Orbeli" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Orbeli">Ivane Orbeli</a> as its ruler in 1161.</p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shaddadid.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Shaddadid.gif/250px-Shaddadid.gif" decoding="async" width="250" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Shaddadid.gif/375px-Shaddadid.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Shaddadid.gif/500px-Shaddadid.gif 2x" data-file-width="1396" data-file-height="910" /></a><figcaption>Caucasus region during 1072–1174.</figcaption></figure> <p>In July, 1161 troops of a muslim coalition consisting, namely those of the Shah-Armens of <a href="/wiki/Ahlat" title="Ahlat">Ahlat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saltukids" title="Saltukids">Saltukids of Erzerum</a>, and the lord of <a href="/wiki/Kars" title="Kars">Kars</a> and Surmari was formed. Allies selected the route through the <a href="/wiki/Aras_(river)" title="Aras (river)">river Araxes</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Artuqids" title="Artuqids">Artuqid</a> lord Najm al-din set out to join them. In August, 1161 they arrived before Ani and besieged it. When the king George III of Georgia has arrived to meet them, the emir <a href="/wiki/Saltuk_II" title="Saltuk II">Saltuk II</a> remembering his oath to the <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Georgia" title="Demetrius I of Georgia">king Demetrius</a>, lifted the siege and left the battlefield. Muslims were defeated and put to the sword and many of them perished. King George liberated the people of Ani who had been taken captive and gave the devastated town assistance. He then marched against the Saltuk II, and in the same year, 1161, defeated and made him prisoner, who was redeemed by his sister, Shahbanu Hatun, wife of the ruler of Ahlat. </p><p>Georgians then entered in Shah-Armen possessions and looted <a href="/wiki/Van,_Turkey" title="Van, Turkey">Van</a>. Some 9000 Muslims, including the nobles and members <a href="/wiki/S%C3%B6kmen_II" title="Sökmen II">Sökmen II</a> family were taken as prisoner. The news of the defeat reached the lord Najm ad-din when he had arrived in <a href="/wiki/Malazgirt" title="Malazgirt">Malazgirt</a>, the latter went back to <a href="/wiki/Silvan,_Diyarbak%C4%B1r" title="Silvan, Diyarbakır">Mayyafariqin</a> without having joined Shah-Armens or taken part in the battle. </p><p>The capture of <a href="/wiki/Ani" title="Ani">Ani</a> and the defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Saltukids" title="Saltukids">Saltukid</a> forces enabled the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Georgian</a> king to march on <a href="/wiki/Dvin_(ancient_city)" title="Dvin (ancient city)">Dvin</a>. The following year in August/September 1162, Dvin was temporarily captured and sacked, the non-Christian population was pillaged and the Georgian troops returned home loaded with booty. The king appointed Ananiya, a member of the local feudal nobility to govern the town. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Salduq_b._%60Ali_under_the_authority_ofTughril_Beg,_Rukh_al-Din_Abu_Talib,_Erzurum-Arzarum,_540-70_H_(Obverse).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Salduq_b._%60Ali_under_the_authority_ofTughril_Beg%2C_Rukh_al-Din_Abu_Talib%2C_Erzurum-Arzarum%2C_540-70_H_%28Obverse%29.jpg/220px-Salduq_b._%60Ali_under_the_authority_ofTughril_Beg%2C_Rukh_al-Din_Abu_Talib%2C_Erzurum-Arzarum%2C_540-70_H_%28Obverse%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Salduq_b._%60Ali_under_the_authority_ofTughril_Beg%2C_Rukh_al-Din_Abu_Talib%2C_Erzurum-Arzarum%2C_540-70_H_%28Obverse%29.jpg/330px-Salduq_b._%60Ali_under_the_authority_ofTughril_Beg%2C_Rukh_al-Din_Abu_Talib%2C_Erzurum-Arzarum%2C_540-70_H_%28Obverse%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Salduq_b._%60Ali_under_the_authority_ofTughril_Beg%2C_Rukh_al-Din_Abu_Talib%2C_Erzurum-Arzarum%2C_540-70_H_%28Obverse%29.jpg/440px-Salduq_b._%60Ali_under_the_authority_ofTughril_Beg%2C_Rukh_al-Din_Abu_Talib%2C_Erzurum-Arzarum%2C_540-70_H_%28Obverse%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1060" data-file-height="1004" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Saltuk_II" title="Saltuk II">Saltuk II</a> the ruler of <a href="/wiki/Erzurum" title="Erzurum">Erzurum</a>. 540-70 H (1146-1176 CE).</figcaption></figure> <p>Shams al-Din Eldiguz, ruler of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> embarked upon a campaign against Kingdom of Georgia in early 1163. The <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljukid Sultan</a>, Arslan marching from <a href="/wiki/Hamadan" title="Hamadan">Hamadan</a> met Eldiguz in <a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_Autonomous_Republic" title="Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic">Nakhchavan</a>. He was joined by the <a href="/wiki/S%C3%B6kmen_II" title="Sökmen II">Sökmen II</a> the ruler of <a href="/wiki/Shah-Armens" title="Shah-Armens">Ahlat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saltuk_II" title="Saltuk II">Saltuk II</a> the ruler of <a href="/wiki/Erzurum" title="Erzurum">Erzurum</a>, As-Sunkur the ruler of Maragha, and many others. With an army of 50,000 troops they marched on Georgia. In 1163 Eldiguz attacked Mren (north of Dvin) where he burnt the fortress, with 4000 <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a> in it. On 9 July 1163 <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuks</a> inflicted a heavy defeat on <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a>. They penetrated into the fortress al-Krkri (Gyargyar) where a battle took place, where Georgians sustained a most ignominious defeat. <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_Georgia" title="George III of Georgia">George III</a> was put to flight. Then Seljuks took the <a href="/wiki/Gagi_Fortress" title="Gagi Fortress">fortress of Gagi</a>, laid waste as far as the region of Gagi and <a href="/wiki/Gegharkunik_Province" title="Gegharkunik Province">Gegharkunik</a>, seized prisoners and booty, and then moved to Ani. In April, 1164 Georgians evacuated the town. Eldiguz arrived and gave Ani to the emir <a href="/wiki/Shahanshah_ibn_Mahmud" title="Shahanshah ibn Mahmud">Shahanshah ibn Mahmud</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslim</a> rulers were jubilant, and they prepared for a new campaign. However, this time they were forestalled by <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_Georgia" title="George III of Georgia">George III</a>, who marched into <a href="/wiki/Arran_(Caucasus)" title="Arran (Caucasus)">Arran</a> at the beginning of 1166, occupied a region extending to <a href="/wiki/Ganja,_Azerbaijan" title="Ganja, Azerbaijan">Gan</a> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ganja,_Azerbaijan" title="Ganja, Azerbaijan">ja</a>, devastated the land and turn back with prisoners and booty. The struggle for Ani continued. For four long years <a href="/wiki/Ani" title="Ani">Ani</a> was attacked ceaselessly. The population was reduced to misery, the land was not tilled and the economy was dislocated. There seemed to be no end to the war between George III and <a href="/wiki/Eldiguz" title="Eldiguz">atabeg Eldiguz</a>. But the belligerents were exhausted to such an extent that Eldiguz proposed an armistice. George had no alternative but to make concessions. Eldiguz restored Ani to its former rulers, the <a href="/wiki/Shaddadids" title="Shaddadids">Shaddadids</a>, who became his vassals. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Shaddadids" title="Shaddadids">Shaddadids</a>, ruled <a href="/wiki/Ani" title="Ani">Ani</a> for about 10 years, but in 1174 King <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_Georgia" title="George III of Georgia">George</a> captured the <a href="/wiki/Shahanshah_ibn_Mahmud" title="Shahanshah ibn Mahmud">Shahanshah ibn Mahmud</a> as a prisoner and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Siege_of_Ani_(1174)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Siege of Ani (1174) (page does not exist)">captured Ani</a> once again. 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style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Dvin_(ancient_city)" title="Dvin (ancient city)">1203</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:65.263%;left:31.232%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="1206"><img alt="1206" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Location_dot_red.svg/8px-Location_dot_red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Location_dot_red.svg/12px-Location_dot_red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Location_dot_red.svg/16px-Location_dot_red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Kars" title="Kars">1206</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:91.782%;left:25.448%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="1208"><img alt="1208" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/8px-X_solid_black_17.gif" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/12px-X_solid_black_17.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/16px-X_solid_black_17.gif 2x" data-file-width="17" data-file-height="17" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian-Ayyubid_wars&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georgian-Ayyubid wars (page does not exist)">1208</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:97.64%;left:77.13%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="1210-1211"><img alt="1210-1211" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/8px-X_solid_black_17.gif" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/12px-X_solid_black_17.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/16px-X_solid_black_17.gif 2x" data-file-width="17" data-file-height="17" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>1210-1211</div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:35.94%;left:46.989%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="1212"><img alt="1212" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/8px-X_solid_black_17.gif" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/12px-X_solid_black_17.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/X_solid_black_17.gif/16px-X_solid_black_17.gif 2x" data-file-width="17" data-file-height="17" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Rebellion_in_Pkhovi_and_Didoya" title="Rebellion in Pkhovi and Didoya">1212</a></div></div></div></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Caucasus_topo_map-blank.svg" title="File:Caucasus topo map-blank.svg">class=notpageimage| </a></div><b>Approximate dates of Georgian control.</b> Mouseover for name. <br /><b>Blue circle</b>=Capital <br /><b>Black dot</b>=Georgian held cities and fortresses<br /><b>Red dot</b>=Conquered cities and fortresses<br /><b>X</b>=Major battles</div></div></div><p>The successes of his predecessors were built upon by <a href="/wiki/Tamar_of_Georgia" title="Tamar of Georgia">Queen Tamar</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_Georgia" title="George III of Georgia">George III</a>, who became the first female ruler of Georgia in her own right and under whose leadership the Georgian state reached the zenith of power and prestige in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>. Tamar was successful in neutralizing this opposition and embarked on an energetic foreign policy aided by the decline of the hostile <a href="/wiki/Great_Seljuq_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Seljuq Empire">Seljuq Turks</a>. Relying on a powerful military <a href="/wiki/Elite" title="Elite">élite</a>, Tamar was able to build an empire which dominated the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> until its collapse under the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol</a> attacks within two decades after Tamar's death. </p><p>Once Tamar succeeded in consolidating her power and found a reliable support in <a href="/wiki/David_Soslan" title="David Soslan">David Soslan</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mkhargrdzeli" class="mw-redirect" title="Mkhargrdzeli">Mkhargrdzeli</a>, <a href="/wiki/House_of_Toreli" title="House of Toreli">Toreli</a>, and other noble families, she revived the expansionist foreign policy of her predecessors. Repeated occasions of dynastic strife in Georgia combined with the efforts of regional successors of the <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Great Seljuq Empire</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Eldiguzids" title="Eldiguzids">Eldiguzids</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shirvanshah" class="mw-redirect" title="Shirvanshah">Shirvanshahs</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Shah-Armens" title="Shah-Armens">Ahlatshahs</a>, had slowed down the dynamic of the Georgians achieved during the reigns of Tamar's great-grandfather, <a href="/wiki/David_IV_of_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="David IV of Georgia">David IV</a>, and her father, George III. However, the Georgians became again active under Tamar, more prominently in the second decade of her rule. </p><p>Early in the 1190s, the Georgian government began to interfere in the affairs of the Eldiguzids and of the Shirvanshahs, aiding rivaling local princes and reducing <a href="/wiki/Shirvan" title="Shirvan">Shirvan</a> to a tributary state. The Eldiguzid atabeg <a href="/wiki/Nusrat_al-Din_Abu_Bakr" title="Nusrat al-Din Abu Bakr">Abu Bakr</a> attempted to stem the Georgian advance, but suffered a defeat at the hands of David Soslan at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shamkor" title="Battle of Shamkor">Battle of Shamkor</a><sup id="cite_ref-Suny-39_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Suny-39-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and lost his capital to a Georgian protégé in 1195. Although Abu Bakr was able to resume his reign a year later, the Eldiguzids were only barely able to contain further Georgian forays.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The question of liberation of Armenia remained of prime importance in Georgia's foreign policy. Tamar's armies led by two <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> generals, <a href="/wiki/Zakaria_II_Mkhargrdzeli" class="mw-redirect" title="Zakaria II Mkhargrdzeli">Zakare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ivane_Mkhargrdzeli" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivane Mkhargrdzeli">Ivane Zakarian</a> overran fortresses and cities towards the <a href="/wiki/Ararat_Plain" title="Ararat Plain">Ararat Plain</a>, reclaiming one after another fortresses and districts from local Muslim rulers. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seljuk_Sultanate_of_Rum_1190_Locator_Map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Seljuk_Sultanate_of_Rum_1190_Locator_Map.svg/220px-Seljuk_Sultanate_of_Rum_1190_Locator_Map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Seljuk_Sultanate_of_Rum_1190_Locator_Map.svg/330px-Seljuk_Sultanate_of_Rum_1190_Locator_Map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Seljuk_Sultanate_of_Rum_1190_Locator_Map.svg/440px-Seljuk_Sultanate_of_Rum_1190_Locator_Map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum" title="Sultanate of Rum">Seljuk Sultanate of Rum</a> in 1190</figcaption></figure> <p>Alarmed by the Georgian successes, <a href="/wiki/Suleiman_II_(R%C3%BBm)" class="mw-redirect" title="Suleiman II (Rûm)">Süleymanshah II</a>, the resurgent Seljuqid <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum" title="Sultanate of Rum">sultan of Rûm</a>, rallied his vassal <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emirs</a> and marched against Georgia, but his camp was attacked and destroyed by David Soslan at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Basian" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Basian">Battle of Basian</a> in 1203 or 1204. The chronicler of Tamar describes how the army was assembled at the rock-hewn town of <a href="/wiki/Vardzia" title="Vardzia">Vardzia</a> before marching on to Basian and how the queen addressed the troops from the balcony of the church.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Exploiting her success in this battle, between 1203 and 1205 Georgians seized the town of <a href="/wiki/Dvin_(ancient_city)" title="Dvin (ancient city)">Dvin</a><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and entered <a href="/wiki/Ahlat" title="Ahlat">Akhlatshah</a> possessions twice and subdued the emir of <a href="/wiki/Kars" title="Kars">Kars</a> (vassal of the <a href="/wiki/Saltukids" title="Saltukids">Saltukids</a> in Erzurum), <a href="/wiki/Shah-Armens" title="Shah-Armens">Akhlatshahs</a>, the emirs of <a href="/wiki/Saltukids" title="Saltukids">Erzurum</a> and <a href="/wiki/House_of_Meng%C3%BCjek" title="House of Mengüjek">Erzincan</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ivane_and_Zakare,_Harichavank.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Ivane_and_Zakare%2C_Harichavank.jpg/220px-Ivane_and_Zakare%2C_Harichavank.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Ivane_and_Zakare%2C_Harichavank.jpg/330px-Ivane_and_Zakare%2C_Harichavank.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Ivane_and_Zakare%2C_Harichavank.jpg/440px-Ivane_and_Zakare%2C_Harichavank.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3265" data-file-height="2605" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Zakare_II_Zakarian" title="Zakare II Zakarian">Zakare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ivane_I_Zakarian" title="Ivane I Zakarian">Ivane Zakarian</a> on the east facade at <a href="/wiki/Harichavank" class="mw-redirect" title="Harichavank">Harichavank</a>, Armenia, 1201.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1204-1205, the <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> raided the northern areas of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Van" title="Lake Van">Lake Van</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Erci%C5%9F" title="Erciş">Archesh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malazgirt" title="Malazgirt">Manzikert</a>. After the death of the last Sokhmenid ruler of <a href="/wiki/Shah-Armens" title="Shah-Armens">Shah-Armen</a> without an heir, a struggle began between the <a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubids</a> to seize power in the Sultanate. Disturbances at home and external pressure turned out to be the reason for the weakening of Shah-Armens and they were no longer able to deal with the threat from the Georgians. The <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslim</a> rulers of the region, could not adapt to the strengthening of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> Georgia, and that is why the Sultan of <a href="/wiki/Ahlat" title="Ahlat">Ahlat</a> called for help from the <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">Emir</a> Toghrulshah of <a href="/wiki/Erzurum" title="Erzurum">Erzurum</a>. They marched with a common army towards the borders of Georgia. When the Georgians found out about the enemy's intentions, they were overconfident, ignored the danger coming from them and faced the enemy defenseless. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> marched on <a href="/wiki/Ahlat" title="Ahlat">Ahlat</a> in 1205-1206. However, this attempt also ended in failure, because the purpose of this campaign was not the complete conquest of the <a href="/wiki/Shah-Armens" title="Shah-Armens">Shah-Armens</a>, but its plundering. The two crushing defeats experienced against Shah-Armens had a negative impact on Georgia's international status. The situation needed to be corrected immediately. </p><p>Simultaneously with the murder of Balaban, the last ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Shah-Armens" title="Shah-Armens">Shah-Armens</a>, in 1206 the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Kingdom of Georgia</a> under the command of <a href="/wiki/David_Soslan" title="David Soslan">Davit Soslan</a> besieged <a href="/wiki/Kars" title="Kars">Kars</a> (vassal of the Shah-Armens) and other fortresses along the <a href="/wiki/Aras_(river)" title="Aras (river)">Aras river</a>. The Emir of Kars appealed to the Sultan of the Shah-Armens for help, but he was powerless to find help. In such a situation, the <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emir</a> of Kars asked the Georgians for a truce and in return gave up the fortress. <a href="/wiki/Ivane_Akhaltsikheli" title="Ivane Akhaltsikheli">Ivane Akhaltsikheli</a> was appointed as the <a href="/wiki/Amirtamira" title="Amirtamira">Amirtamira</a> of Kars. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Georgian_invasion_of_northern_Iran.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Georgian_invasion_of_northern_Iran.png/220px-Georgian_invasion_of_northern_Iran.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Georgian_invasion_of_northern_Iran.png/330px-Georgian_invasion_of_northern_Iran.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Georgian_invasion_of_northern_Iran.png/440px-Georgian_invasion_of_northern_Iran.png 2x" data-file-width="1168" data-file-height="957" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Georgian_campaign_against_the_Eldiguzids" title="Georgian campaign against the Eldiguzids">Georgian campaign against the Eldiguzids</a> in 1208 and 1210-1211 years.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1210-1211, the <a href="/wiki/Zakarids%E2%80%93Mkhargrdzeli" class="mw-redirect" title="Zakarids–Mkhargrdzeli">Zakarids–Mkhargrdzeli</a> brothers Zakare and Ivane waste to <a href="/wiki/Ardabil" title="Ardabil">Ardabil</a> – according to the Georgian and Armenian annals – as a revenge for the local Muslim ruler's attack on Ani and his massacre of the city's Christian population.<sup id="cite_ref-Lordkipanidze-154_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lordkipanidze-154-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a great final burst, the brothers led an army marshaled throughout Tamar's possessions and vassal territories in a march, through <a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_(city)" title="Nakhchivan (city)">Nakhchivan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Julfa,_Azerbaijan_(city)" title="Julfa, Azerbaijan (city)">Julfa</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Marand" title="Marand">Marand</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Qazvin" title="Qazvin">Qazvin</a> in northwest <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, pillaging several settlements on their way.<sup id="cite_ref-Lordkipanidze-154_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lordkipanidze-154-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Consequences">Consequences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Consequences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/George_IV_of_Georgia" title="George IV of Georgia">George IV</a> continued Tamar's policy. He <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Ganja_(1213)" title="Siege of Ganja (1213)">put down the revolts</a> in neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> vassal states in the 1210s and began preparations for a large-scale campaign against <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> to support the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Crusade" title="Fourth Crusade">Crusaders</a> in 1220. However, the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongols</a> approach to the Georgian borders made the Crusade plan unrealistic. The first <a href="/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Georgia" title="Mongol invasions of Georgia">Mongol expedition</a> defeated Georgian armies in 1221–1222. George IV died fighting them in 1223 and his sister <a href="/wiki/Rusudan_of_Georgia" title="Rusudan of Georgia">Rusudan</a> made a desperate alliance against Mongols when she and her daughter <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCrc%C3%BC_Hatun" class="mw-redirect" title="Gürcü Hatun">Tamar</a> married to Seljuk princes of <a href="/wiki/Erzurum" title="Erzurum">Erzurum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum" title="Sultanate of Rum">Sultanate of Rum</a>. The former enemies were now the closest allies (<a href="/wiki/Battle_of_K%C3%B6se_Da%C4%9F" title="Battle of Köse Dağ">Battle of Köse Dağ</a>) but that did not prevent the Mongol advance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Georgia" title="Military history of Georgia">Military history of Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Georgian_wars" title="Byzantine–Georgian wars">Byzantine–Georgian wars</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Grousset" title="René Grousset">René Grousset</a>, <i>L'Empire du Levant : Histoire de la Question d'Orient</i>, <a href="/wiki/1949" title="1949">1949</a>, p. 417</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Garland-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Garland_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Lynda_Garland" title="Lynda Garland">Lynda Garland</a> & Stephen Rapp. <i>Mary 'of Alania': Woman and Empress Between Two Worlds</i>, pp. 94–5. 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Cambridge University Press. p. 51. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-107-16756-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-107-16756-8"><bdi>978-1-107-16756-8</bdi></a>. <q>Zakare and Ivane Mqargrdzeli on the east facade at Harichavank, Armenia, 1201</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tamta%27s+World&rft.pages=51&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2017-04-20&rft.isbn=978-1-107-16756-8&rft.aulast=Eastmond&rft.aufirst=Antony&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DANAoDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA51&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorgian%E2%80%93Seljuk+wars" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lordkipanidze-154-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lordkipanidze-154_49-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lordkipanidze-154_49-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLordkipanidze1987">Lordkipanidze 1987</a>, p. 154.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Works_cited">Works cited</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian%E2%80%93Seljuk_wars&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Works cited"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAllen1932" class="citation book cs1">Allen, W.E.D. 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color: #FFDEAD;;width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Georgia_(country)#Medieval_Georgia" title="History of Georgia (country)">History</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Unification_of_the_Georgian_realm" title="Unification of the Georgian realm">Unification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Georgian_realm" title="Collapse of the Georgian realm">Fall</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Timeline of the Kingdom of Georgia (page does not exist)">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Georgia#Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Military history of Georgia">Military history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Golden_Age" title="Georgian Golden Age">Georgian Golden Age</a></li> <li>Split (1258–1330) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Western_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Western Georgia">Kingdom of Western Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Eastern_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Eastern Georgia">Kingdom of Eastern Georgia</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg/150px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg/200px-Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="750" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B20000; color: #FFDEAD;;width:1%">Geography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B20000; color: #FFDEAD;;width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Subdivisions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Capitals: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kutaisi" title="Kutaisi">Kutaisi</a> (1008–1122)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> (1122–1490)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saeristavo" title="Saeristavo">Duchies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakarid_Armenia" title="Zakarid Armenia">Georgian Armenia</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Armenian_polities_within_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of Armenian polities within the Kingdom of Georgia (page does not exist)">List of Marcher Lords</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Shirvan" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian Shirvan">Georgian Shirvan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kasranids" title="Kasranids">Kasranids</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khevi_(territorial_unit)" title="Khevi (territorial unit)">Khevi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Khevisberi" title="Khevisberi">Khevisberi</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B20000; color: #FFDEAD;;width:1%">Politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B20000; color: #FFDEAD;;width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_feudalism" title="Georgian feudalism">Feudalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagrationi" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagrationi">Royal dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mepe_(title)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mepe (title)">Monarch</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Georgian_monarchs" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Georgian monarchs">List</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darbazi_(State_Council)" title="Darbazi (State Council)">State Council</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Court_officials_of_the_Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Court officials of the Kingdom of Georgia">Court officials</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eristavi" title="Eristavi">Duke</a> / <a href="/wiki/Mtavari" title="Mtavari">Prince</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aznauri" title="Aznauri">Aristocracy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Medieval_Georgian_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Medieval Georgian law (page does not exist)">Code of law</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regulations_of_the_Georgian_Royal_Court" title="Regulations of the Georgian Royal Court">Regulations of the Georgian Royal Court</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobility_of_Georgia_(country)" title="Nobility of Georgia (country)">Nobility</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B20000; color: #FFDEAD;;width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Georgia" title="Military history of Georgia">Georgian army</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monaspa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Monaspa (page does not exist)">Royal guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roki_Spa" title="Roki Spa">Mercenaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Georgia_(country)#United_Kingdom" title="List of wars involving Georgia (country)">Conflicts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Byzantine-Georgian_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine-Georgian wars">Byzantine-Georgian wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian-Seljuk_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian-Seljuk wars">Georgian-Seljuk wars</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khwarezmid_invasions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khwarezmid invasions (page does not exist)">Khwarezmid invasions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Georgia" title="Mongol invasions of Georgia">Mongol invasions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timur%27s_invasions_of_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Timur's invasions of Georgia">Timurid invasions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkmen_incursions_into_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkmen incursions into Georgia">Turkmen invasions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_civil_war_of_1463-1491" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian civil war of 1463-1491">Civil war</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#B20000; 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