Kingdom of Abkhazia

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Was a medieval feudal state in the Caucasus.

Establishment

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

Chronology

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1. Caspian expeditions of the Rus´

Were military raids undertaken by the Rus' between the late 9th century and c. 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores.

1.1.First Caspian expedition of the Rus'

The Rus' undertook the first large-scale expedition in the Caspian Sea in 913. Having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged in the Georgan region, in the territory of present-day Iran, and more to the west, in Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods.

January 914: The Rus' undertook the first large-scale Caspian expedition in 913. Having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged in the Gorgan region, in the territory of present-day Iran, and more to the west, in Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods.

February 914: The Rus' undertook the first large-scale Caspian expedition in 913. After having pillaged the Gorgan, Gilan and Mazandaran (Modern-day Iran), the Rus' forces left these regions.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 791: The Principality of Hamamshen was a small principality established in about 790 century by Armenians who fled the Arab invasions of Armenia.

January 901: The Kingdom of Alania was a medieval kingdom of the Iranian Alans (proto-Ossetians) that flourished in the Northern Caucasus, roughly in the location of latter-day Circassia and modern North Ossetia-Alania, from its independence from the Khazars in the late 9th century.

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 972: In 971, Lashkari ibn Muhammad, a member of the Shaddadid dynasty, established himself in Ganja.

January 989: It is believed that the conquest of Tmutarakan by the Old Russian state happened either during the eastern campaign of Svyatoslav in 965, or during the campaign of Vladimir in Korsun in 988.