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Name: Emirate of Tbilisi

Type: Polity

Start: 654 AD

End: 1122 AD

Parent: arab caliphate

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Was a tributary state of the Arab Caliphate in the Caucasus after the Islamic conquest of the region.

Establishment


  • January 654: An Arab emir was installed in Tbilisi about 653.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Uthman


    Expansion during the rule of Uthman in the Rashidun Caliphate.


    2. Georgian-Seljuk wars


    Were a series of military conflicts between the Seljuk Empire and its vassals against the Kingdom of Georgia.

    2.1.Georgian Reconquista

    Were a series of military campaigns by the Kingdom of Georgia to reconquer lands controlled by the Seljukids and their vassals.

  • 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 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.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 737: Established by the Arabs during their invasions of Georgian lands, the Emirate of Tbilisi was an important outpost of Muslim rule in the Caucasus. It was founded by Arab commander Marwan ibn Muhammad in 736 in the region of present-day Georgia.

  • January 779: The Abkhazian Kingdom Declared independence from the Byzantine Empire.

  • January 909: In about 908 Abkhazian king Constantine III (c.894 . 923) annexed a significant portion of Kartli.

  • January 952: Muhammad ibn Shaddad conquers Dwin.

  • January 1015: Kvirike III declared himself King of Kakheti and Hereti.

  • January 1046: After the fall of the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia in 1045, Kiurike II was bestowed by the Byzantines with the title of Kouropalates and became an independent ruler in the region of Tashir.

  • Disestablishment


  • 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.
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