Timur's invasions of Georgia
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Was the military invasion of Georgia by the Timurid Empire.
Chronology
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November 1386: Tamerlan occupied Tbilisi and captured the Georgian king Bagrat V.
September 1403: In 1403, the fortress of Birtvisi was taken by the Timurid Empire, making the Kingdom of Georgia a vassal state. Despite this, Georgia maintained its independence and Christian identity under the rule of King George VII and the Timurid Empire.
January 1386: After having overrun Azerbaijan and Kars, Timur marched into Georgia.
January 1396: In 1395 the desperate Georgians allied themselves with Sidi Ali of Shekki and inflicted a crushing defeat on the invading armies of Miran Shah, a son of Timur, who was besieging Alindjak (near Nakhichevan), and captured the Jalayirid prince Tahir, who was shut up in it.
June 1387: When Timur was informed that Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde, was approaching Iran, he temporarily withdrew from the territories he had occupied in Georgia.
January 1395: Once the Golden Horde was defeated, Timur returned to attack Georgia again. In 1394, he dispatched four generals to the province of Samtskhe, with orders to apply the Islamic law of ghaza. The same year, Timur in person punished the mountainous Georgian communities in the Aragvi Valley whom the Zafarnama calls Kara-Kalkanlik, and returned via Tbilisi to Shekki upon hearing of yet another offensive by Tokhtamysh.
June 1400: In the spring of 1400, Timur moved back to destroy the Georgian state once and for all. He demanded that George VII should hand over the Jalayirid Tahir. George VII refused and met Timur at the Sagim River in Lower Kartli, but suffered a defeat and retreated deeper into the country.
July 1400: Tamerlan laid siege to Gori where the king of Georgia had entrenched.
January 1406: Timur's invasions of Georgia.
November 1386: Timur, the founder of the Timurid Empire, marched against Tbilisi, which was fortified by the Georgian king Bagrat V. The city fell on November 21, 1386, and King Bagrat V was captured and forcibly converted to Islam.
January 1404: Timur sent his army to plunder and clear the frontier regions of Georgia and set out in pursuit of the retreating king George VII as far as Abkhazia.
January 1401: By the 14th century the newly established Avar Khanate managed to maintain independence from the Mongols.
January 1401: The Shamkhalate of Tarki originated "no later than XIV-XV centuries".
