List of wars involving Georgia (country)
This is a list of wars involving Georgia and its predecessor states. The list gives the name, the date, the combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
- Georgian victory
- Georgian defeat
- Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result,
status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive) - Ongoing conflict
History of Georgia საქართველოს ისტორია |
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History of Georgia |
Diauehi
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1118-845 BC | Tiglath-Pileser I invasion in Diauehi | Diauehi | Assyria | Defeat |
845 BC | The intervention of the Assyrian Empire | Diauehi | Assyria | Сoncession |
790-789 BC | Argishti I invasion in Diauehi | Diauehi | Urartu | Defeat |
Colchis and Iberia
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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750s BC | Absorption Diauehi Colchis | Colchis | Diauehi | Victory/Defeat(Both people were Kartvelian) |
750-742 | Colchis-Urartu War | Colchis | Urartu | Defeat |
720s BC | Scytho-Cimmerian invasion in Colchis | Colchis | Scythia Cimmeria |
Colchis weakened |
The middle of the 6th century BC | The Persian invasion | Colchis | Achaemenid Empire | Defeat |
234 BC | Revolt of Iberian nobles | Saurmag I Durdzuketia |
Iberian nobles | Victory
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189 BC | North campaign of Artashes I | Kingdom of Iberia | Kingdom of Armenia | Defeat |
101 BC | Pontus invasion | Colchis | Kingdom of Pontus | Defeat |
83 BC | Rebellion against Pontus | Colchis | Kingdom of Pontus | Defeat |
73-63 BC | Third Mithridatic War | Kingdom of Pontus Kingdom of Armenia Kingdom of Iberia Caucasian Albania Sarmatians |
Roman Republic Bithynia Galatia Cyzicus |
Defeat |
65 BC | Pompey's First Caucasian Campaign | Kingdom of Iberia | Roman Republic | Defeat |
65 BC | Pompey's Second Caucasian Campaign | Roman Republic Kingdom of Iberia |
Caucasian Albania Colchis |
Roman/Iberian Victory |
35 | Pharasmanes I of Iberia invasion of Armenia | Kingdom of Iberia | Kingdom of Armenia Parthian Empire |
Victory |
50-53 | Iberian–Armenian War | Kingdom of Iberia | Kingdom of Armenia Parthian Empire |
Defeat |
58 | Kingdom of Macrones and Heniochi attacked Armenia (58 AD) [1] | Kingdom of Macrones and Heniochi | Kingdom of Armenia | Victory |
58-63 | Roman–Parthian War | Roman Empire Kingdom of Iberia |
Parthian Empire Kingdom of Armenia |
Compromise |
113-117 | Roman-Parthian War | Roman Empire Kingdom of Iberia Caucasian Albania |
Parthian Empire Kingdom of Armenia |
Victory |
117 | Pharasmanes II of Iberia invasion of Armenia | Kingdom of Iberia | Kingdom of Armenia | Victory |
125 | The march of Pharasmanes II in Cappadocia | Kingdom of Iberia | Roman empire | Victory |
125 | The march of Pharasmanes II in Albania | Kingdom of Iberia | Caucasian Albania | Victory |
2nd century | The invasion of Alans | Kingdom of Iberia | Alans | Victory |
253 | The invasion of the Crimean Goths | Lazica Roman Empire |
Crimean Goths | Victory |
363-378 | The Persians take control of Iberia | Kingdom of Iberia Roman Empire |
Sassanid Empire | Defeat |
3-4th century | Unification of West Georgia under the rule Egrisi | Lazica | Colchis | Victory |
4th century | The invasion of Alans | Kingdom of Iberia | Alans | Victory |
451-456 | Vakhtang I Campaign in Alania | Kingdom of Iberia | Alans | Victory |
458-461 | Vakhtang I Of Iberia's Invasion In Ossetia
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Kingdom of Iberia | Alans | Victory |
464 | Vakhtang I of Iberia's March on Byzantium[2] | Kingdom of Iberia | Byzantine Empire | Victory |
468 | War of Svaneti | Kingdom of Iberia | Lazica | Victory |
472 | Iberian-Byzantine war (472) | Kingdom of Iberia | Byzantine Empire | Victory |
482-502 | King Vakhtang I Gorgasali's war of resistance against the Persian invaders in Kartli. | Kingdom of Iberia | Sassanid Empire | Defeat |
Early Medieval fragmentation
Kingdom of Georgia
Kingdoms and principalities
The Social-Democratic Georgia
Georgian SSR
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1921 | Kakhet–Khevsureti rebellion | Russian SFSR | Committee for the Independence of Georgia | Victory of Georgian SSR |
1921 | Svaneti uprising | Russian SFSR | Committee for the Independence of Georgia | Victory of Georgian SSR |
1924 | August Uprising | Soviet Union | Committee for the Independence of Georgia | Victory of Georgian SSR |
1941-1945 | World War II | Allies | Axis | Allied victory |
1979-1989 | Soviet–Afghan War | Soviet Union | Peshawar Seven Tehran Eight |
Defeat |
Republic of Georgia
See also
Notes
- Giorgi Melikishvili, Essays on the history of Georgia, 1970, p. 372
- სანიკიძე, ლევან (1991). წიგნი მოწამეთა (in Georgian). ხელოვნება.
- Leppin, Hartmut (2021). "The Eastern Roman Empire and Its Neighbours in the "Age of Justinian" – An Overview". In Meier, Mischa; Montinaro, Federico (eds.). A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. p. 13. ISBN 978-90-04-49877-8.
After 545 truces brought peace to most of the border regions, but the war lingered in the Caucasus until 561, when Khosrow and Justinian finally agreed to a fifty-year peace. There was no definite victor, but the Sasanian Empire was in a slightly better position as Rome was obliged to pay a fixed sum to Persia each year.
- Kaegi 2003, pp. 143–144.
- Vasil Kiknadze, Georgia in the XIV century, Tbilisi, 1989, p.105
- Studies in the history of Georgia, Vol. 3, Tbilisi, 1979, p. 725
- Mitchell 2011, p. 69.
References
- Kaegi, Walter Emil (2003), Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-81459-1.
- Mitchell, Colin P., ed. (2011). New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society. Milton Park, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-4157-7462-8. LCCN 2010032352.
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