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Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · GEO LEFT · TUR RIGHT

1. 1121

   Battle of Didgori

   David IV the Builder defeated a much larger Seljuk Turkish coalition at Didgori west of Tbilisi, a decisive victory that broke Seljuk power in the Caucasus.

   War & Rupture · from the Georgia chronicle · The Golden Age of David the Builder and Queen Tamar · REFS 2 — David IV (king of Georgia), History of Georgia

2. 24 July 1783

   Treaty of Georgievsk

   King Erekle II of Kartli-Kakheti placed his kingdom under Russian protection, ceding control of foreign affairs in exchange for guarantees of its integrity and dynasty against Persia and the Ottomans.

   Politics & Power · from the Georgia chronicle · Fragmentation, Foreign Pressure and Russian Annexation · REFS 2 — Treaty of Georgievsk (1783), Georgia: Turkish and Persian domination