What the records say
- When
- 1703
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 42.00° N, 44.00° E
- Description
- 1703 military expedition by the Ottoman Empire
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Ottoman invasion of western Georgia (1703)
Military expedition by the Ottoman Empire
The 1703 Ottoman invasion of western Georgia was a military expedition undertaken by the Ottoman Empire against the tributary states in western Georgia—Imereti, Guria, and Mingrelia. This considerable military deployment, ostensibly to settle a power struggle in Imereti in favor of the sultan's candidate, portended a change in Ottoman policy in the fluid frontier region in the Caucasus and aimed at consolidating the…
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