Georgian Reconquista
If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this event you can find it here:All Statistics
Were a series of military campaigns by the Kingdom of Georgia to reconquer lands controlled by the Seljukids and their vassals.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
January 1119: Tashir-Dzoraget was annexed to the Kingdom of Georgia.
April 1121: In the winter of 1120-1121 the Georgian troops successfully attacked the Seljuk settlements on the eastern and southwestern approaches to the Transcaucasus.
August 1121: After the death of Afridun I, who was murdered in the battle for Derbent, the throne in Shirvan passed to his son, Manuchir III (1120-1160). Manuchir III was under the influence of his wife, Georgian princess Tamar and maintained pro-Georgian orientation.
January 1105: King David's supporters in the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti captured the local king Aghsartan II (c.1102-1104), a loyal tributary of the Seljuk Sultan, and reunited the area with the rest of Georgia.
January 1111: Following the annexation of Kakheti, in 1105, David routed a Seljuk punitive force at the Battle of Ertsukhi, leading to momentum that helped him to secure the key fortresses of Samshvilde, Rustavi, Gishi, and Lori between 1110 and 1118.
January 1116: Following the annexation of Kakheti, in 1105, David routed a Seljuk punitive force at the Battle of Ertsukhi, leading to momentum that helped him to secure the key fortresses of Samshvilde, Rustavi, Gishi, and Lori between 1110 and 1118.
January 1117: Following the annexation of Kakheti, in 1105, David routed a Seljuk punitive force at the Battle of Ertsukhi, leading to momentum that helped him to secure the key fortresses of Samshvilde, Rustavi, Gishi, and Lori between 1110 and 1118.
January 1117: King David of Georgia attacked the Seljuk Turks in Tao and captured the region of Tao-Klarjeti.
January 1118: Following the annexation of Kakheti, in 1105, David routed a Seljuk punitive force at the Battle of Ertsukhi, leading to momentum that helped him to secure the key fortresses of Samshvilde, Rustavi, Gishi, and Lori between 1110 and 1118.
August 1121: King David routed the enemy army on the fields of Didgori, with fleeing Seljuq Turks being run down by pursuing Georgian cavalry for several days. A huge amount of booty and prisoners were captured by David's army, which had also secured Tbilisi, the last Muslim enclave remaining from the Arab occupation.
January 1125: In 1124, Georgian king David conquered Shirvan and took the Armenian city of Ani from the Muslim emirs.
January 1125: King David of Georgia conquered Shirvan.
January 1144: The sultan of Eldiguzids attacked Ganja several times, and in 1143 the town fell to the sultan.
January 1157: According to Mkhitar Gosh, 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.
January 1162: The town of Ani was offered to the George III, who appointed his general Ivane Orbeli as its ruler in 1161.
January 1165: A coalition of Muslim rulers led by Shams al-Din Eldiguz, ruler of Adarbadagan and some other regions, embarked upon a campaign against Georgia in early 1163. George had no choice but to make peace. He restored Ani to its former rulers, the Shaddadids, who became his vassals. .
January 1175: The Shaddadids, ruled the town of Ani for about 10 years, but in 1174 King George took the Shahanshah ibn Mahmud as a prisoner and occupied Ani once again.
June 1195: The Eldiguzid atabeg Abu Bakr attempted to stem the Georgian advance, but suffered a defeat at the hands of David Soslan at the Battle of Shamkor and lost his capital to the Georgians.
January 1201: The question of liberation of Armenia remained of prime importance in Georgia's foreign policy. Tamar's armies led by two Armenian generals, Zakare and Ivane Mkhargrdzeli overran fortresses and cities towards the Ararat Plain, reclaiming one after another fortresses and districts from local Muslim rulers.
January 1125: Georgian forces took the Armenian city of Ani from the Muslim emirs, thus expanding the borders of the kingdom to the Araxes basin.
January 1123: Georgian King David IV’s victories over the Seljuk Turks inflicted a final blow to Islamic Tbilisi, and a Georgian army entered the city in 1122, ending four hundred years of Muslim rule.
January 1100: By 1099 Georgian king David IV's power was considerable enough that he was able to refuse paying tribute to Seljuqs.
January 1121: Georgian expansion by 1120 AD.
January 1131: In 1130 Georgia was attacked by the Sultan of Ahlat, Shah-Armen Sökmen II. This war was started by the passage of Ani into the hands of the Georgians. Demetrius I of Georgia had to compromise and give up Ani to Fadl ibn Mahmud.
Selected Sources
SUBAŞI, Ö (2013): XI. YÜZYILDA TAO-KLARCETİ BÖLGESİNDE TÜRK HÂKİMİYETİ, Turkish Studies - International Periodical For The Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic, Volume 8/5 Spring 2013, p. 705-731, ANKARA-TURKEY
