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This is a list of military conflicts involving Georgia and its predecessor states. The list gives the name, the date, the combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1112-845 BC | Assyrian Invasion of Diauehi[1] | Diauehi,
Colchis |
Assyrian Empire | Defeat |
| 720s BC | Scytho-Cimmerian invasion of Colchis | Colchis | Scythians Cimmerians |
Defeat |
| 65 BC | Pompey's campaign of Georgia | Colchis |
Defeat
| |
| 35-54 | Iberian–Armenian War | Parthian Empire |
Inconclusive
| |
| 58-63 | Roman–Parthian War of 58–63 | Sophene Lesser Armenia Commagene Kingdom of Pontus |
Parthian Empire |
Defeat
|
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 526-532 | Iberian War | Huns Heruli Kingdom of Aksum Kingdom of Kinda |
Lakhmid kingdom Sabirs |
Inconclusive
|
| 541-562 | Lazic War | Lazica (548-562) |
Lazica (541-548) |
Inconclusive[2]
|
| 602-628 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
|
Avars (and Slavic allies) Jewish and Samaritan rebels (c. 614) Lakhmids Lombards Visigoths |
Western Turkic Khaganate Ghassanids |
Defeat
|
| 627-764 | Khazar–Georgian wars | Khazar Khaganate | Inconclusive | |
| 643-655 | Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri's invasions of Georgia | Rashidun Caliphate | Defeat
| |
| 729-730 | Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah's invasion of Georgia | Khazar Khaganate |
Umayyad Caliphate | Victory |
| 735-737 | Invasion of Marwan the Deaf | Umayyad Caliphate | Defeat | |
| 840-842 | Khalid ibn Yazid al-Shaybani's invasion of Georgia | Emirate of Tbilisi
Principality of Kakheti |
Principality of Tao |
Victory |
| 853 | Bugha al-Kabir's invasion of Georgia | Emirate of Tbilisi
|
Principality of Tao Principality of Kakheti |
Victory
• Bugha the Turk withdraws from the Caucasus |
| 881-891 | Dynastic strife in Iberia | Adarnase IV of Iberia Bagrat I of Klarjeti |
Nasra of Tao-Klarjeti Alania Gurgen I of Tao |
Establishment of the Kingdom of the Iberians under Adarnase IV of Iberia |
| 993-998 | David III's campaigns against the Muslims | Marwanids Rawadid dynasty |
Victory |
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1012–1199 | Georgian–Shaddadid wars | Shaddadid dynasty | Victory
| |
| 1014-1022 | Byzantine–Georgian war (1014-1022)[3] | Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti |
Defeat
| |
| 1028 | Byzantine–Georgian war (1028) | Victory
•Battle of Kldekari (1028)[4] • Byzantine–Georgian treaty of 1031 | ||
| 1033-1058 | Georgian civil war of 1033-1058 | Varangians |
Liparit IV of Kldekari (1039-1060) Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget |
Bagrat IV was recognized as king |
| 1046-1303 | Georgian–Seljuk wars |
|
Seljuk Empire
|
Victory |
| 1064-1068 | Alp Arslan's invasions of Georgia | Seljuk Empire Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget Emirate of Tbilisi Shaddadids |
Defeat | |
| 1117-1124 | Georgian conquest of Shirvan | Seljuk Empire Shirvanshahs |
Victory
| |
| 1190-1193 | Revolt of Yury Bogolyubsky | Yury Bogolyubsky | Victory
| |
| 1204 | Georgian expedition to Chaldia | Victory
| ||
| 1204-1210 | Ayyubid–Georgian wars[5] |
|
Inconclusive
| |
| 1209-1211 | Georgian campaign against the Eldiguzids | Eldiguzids | Victory
| |
| 1225-1228 | Khwarazmian invasions of Georgia[6] | Khwarazmian Empire | Defeat | |
| 1220-1236 | Mongol invasions of Georgia | Mongol Empire | Defeat | |
| 1241-1335 | Mongol invasions of Anatolia | Mongol Empire
|
Anatolian beyliks |
Victory |
| 1260-1323 | Mongol invasions of the Levant |
|
|
Defeat |
| 1302-1303 | Azat Mousa's invasion of Georgia | Victory | ||
| 14th century | Vameq's invasion of Jiketi[7][citation needed][failed verification] | Kingdom of Zichia | Victory | |
| 1315-1345 | George V Brilliant’s Campaign against the Mongols[8] |
|
|
Victory
|
| 1386-1403 | Timurid invasions of Georgia | Defeat
| ||
| 1386-1387 | Bagrat Liberation Expedition[9][10] | Victory | ||
| 1395-1397 | Timurid invasions of Simsim | Simsim
|
Defeat
| |
| 1405 | George's campaign against the Timurids[11] | Victory
| ||
| 1407-1502 | Turkoman invasions of Georgia | Shirvanshah |
Qara Qoyunlu (1407-1468) Aq Qoyunlu (1468-1502) |
Victory
|
| 1463-1493 | Georgian civil war of 1463–1491 |
|
Fall of Kingdom of Georgia |
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1508 | Georgian campaign (1508) | Defeat | ||
| 1533 | Mamia's invasion of Jiketi[12][citation needed][failed verification] | Kingdom of Zichia | Defeat
| |
| 1547 | Ottoman invasion of Guria | Defeat | ||
| 1541-1566 | Tahmasp I's campaigns in Kartili and Kakheti | Defeat | ||
| 1578-1590 | Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590)
|
Shaybanids |
Ottoman victory
| |
| 1596–1597 | Daryal war | Defeat | ||
| 1603-1612 | Ottoman–Safavid war (1603–1612) |
|
Victory
| |
| 1614-1617 | Abbas I's Kakhetian and Kartlian campaigns | Defeat | ||
| 1623-1658 | War of the Kingdom of Imereti (1623-1658) | Salipartiano (from 1657) |
Imeretian victory
| |
| 1703 | Ottoman invasion of western Georgia | Victory | ||
| 1722-1723 | Russo-Persian War (1722–1723) | Victory
| ||
| 1730-1735 | Ottoman–Persian War (1730–1735)
|
|
Victory
| |
| 1738-40 | Nader Shah's invasion of India[13][14] | Victory | ||
| 1768-1774 | Russo-Turkish War (1768–74) |
|
|
Victory
|
| 1796 | Persian expedition of 1796 | Qajar Iran | Russian withdrawal
| |
| 1804 | 1804 Mtiuleti rebellion | Georgian and Ossetian rebels | Defeat
| |
| 1804-1813 | Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) | Qajar Iran | Victory
| |
| 1806-1812 | Russo-Turkish War (1806–12) | Wallachia |
Victory
| |
| 1812 | Kakheti rebellion | Georgian rebels | Defeat
| |
| 1819-1820 | Imereti rebellion | Georgian rebels | Defeat
| |
| 1828-1829 | Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) |
|
Victory
| |
| 1841 | Guria rebellion | Georgian rebels | Defeat
| |
| 1853-1856 | The Caucasus front of the Crimean War |
|
The victory at the front, but the defeat of Russia in the war[citation needed] | |
| 1856-1857 | Mingrelia Uprising | Georgian rebels | Mingrels |
Defeat
|
| 1722-1864 | Russo-Circassian War |
|
Kabardia (East Circassia) (until 1822) |
Victory
|
| 1875-1876 | Svaneti uprising of 1875-1876 | Georgian rebels | Defeat
| |
| 1817-1864 | Caucasian War |
|
Victory
| |
| 1877-1878 | Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) |
|
|
Victory
|
| 1914-1918 | World War I | Allied Powers
|
Central Powers
|
Allied victory
|
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914-1918 | Caucasus Campaign |
|
|
Compromise |
| 1918 | Abkhazia conflict (1918) | Supported by: |
Supported by:
|
Victory |
| 1918-1919 | Sochi conflict |
|
Inconclusive
| |
| 1918 | Armeno-Georgian War | Inconclusive
| ||
| 1918-1920 | Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920) | Supported by: |
Victory
| |
| 1921 | Red Army invasion of Georgia |
|
Defeat
| |
| 1924 | August Uprising |
|
Defeat
|
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-1945 | World War II | Allies
|
Axis
|
Allied victory |
| 1979-1989 | Soviet–Afghan War |
|
Defeat |
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-1993 | Georgian Civil War
|
Supported by: |
|
Shevardnadze's victory
|
| 1991-1992 | South Ossetian war | Defeat | ||
| 1992-1993 | War in Abkhazia |
|
|
Defeat |
| 1998 | War in Abkhazia (1998) | Defeat | ||
| 2001 | 2001 Kodori crisis |
|
Defeat | |
| 2000-2002 | Pankisi Gorge crisis | Supported by: |
Victory | |
| 2004 | 2004 Adjara crisis | Victory | ||
| 2006 | 2006 Kodori crisis |
|
Victory | |
| 2008 | Russo-Georgian War | Defeat | ||
| 2001–2021 | War in Afghanistan |
Advisers, Non-combat support, & Counter-terrorism operations:
|
|
Defeat |
| 2003-2011 | Iraq War | Victory |
After 545 truces brought peace to most of the border regions, but the war lingered in the Caucasus until 561, when Khosrow and Justinian finally agreed to a fifty-year peace. There was no definite victor, but the Sasanian Empire was in a slightly better position as Rome was obliged to pay a fixed sum to Persia each year.
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