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Name: mingrelia

Type: Cluster

Start: 1558 AD

End: 1867 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Principality of Mingrelia
  • Principality of Mingrelia (Russia)
  • Establishment


  • January 1558: Mingrelia was established as an independent Principality in 1557.
  • Chronology


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    1. Ottoman invasion of western Georgia (1703)


    Was a military expedition undertaken by the Ottoman Empire against its tributary states in western Georgia.

  • August 1703: In 1703, the Ottoman navy landed in Mingrelia, a territory in present-day Georgia.
  • August 1703: In June-July 1703, Halil Pasha, an Ottoman military commander, led an attack on western Georgia. His troops crossed the Çoruh River on pontoons and invaded Guria, a historical region in Georgia.
  • October 1703: On 22 August, Ottoman Sultan Mustafa was forced to abdicate in a coup, which come to be known as the Edirne event. The new sultan, Ahmed III, refused to continue the war in Georgia and left the area.

  • 2. Russo-Turkish War (1806-1812)


    Was a war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

    2.1.Treaty of Bucharest

    The Treaty of Bucharest between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, was signed on 28 May 1812 at the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-12. The eastern half of the Principality of Moldavia was ceded by the Ottoman Empire to Russia.

  • July 1812: The Ottoman Empire regained Poti, Anapa and Akhalkalali. Russia retained Sukhum-Kale on the Abkhazian coast.

  • 3. Crimean War


    Was a war between Russia and an alliance comprising the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

    3.1.Caucasus theatre (Crimean War)

    Was the Caucasian theatre of the Crimean War.

  • October 1853: Being outnumbered, the Russians abandoned Poti and Redut Kale.
  • November 1855: Ottoman field marshal Omar Pasha crossed the Ingur River on 7 November.
  • November 1855: Kars surrendered to Russian forces on 8 November.
  • March 1856: The Ottoman army evacuated Batum.
  • March 1856: The Treaty of Paris of 1856 settled the Crimean War between the Russian Empire: it restored the respective territories of the Russian and the Ottoman Empires to their prewar boundaries, with the exception of southern Bessarabia which was lost by Russia to the Ottoman Empire.

  • 4. Caucasian War


    Was a series of Russian military expeditions into northern Caucasus that resulted in the inglobation of this region in the Russian Empire.

  • January 1867: The principality of Mingrelia ultimately came to an end when Prince Niko Dadiani was deposed, and the principality abolished, by Russia in 1867.

  • 5. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1804: Russia conquers the Principality of Mingrelia.

  • January 1829: The Caucasian Imamate was founded in 1828 by Ghazi Mohammed by merging several areas that where still ummune of Russian control in the region.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1867: The principality of Mingrelia ultimately came to an end when Prince Niko Dadiani was deposed, and the principality abolished, by Russia in 1867.
  • Selected Sources


  • Treaty of Paris (1856), https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10557776?page=,1
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