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by naming him Murvan Qru ("Marwan the Deaf"). After his campaign, most major settlements were utterly ruined and people faced starvation. If
Georgian historiography insists that Kartli was devastated by the invasion, Toumanoff, relying on local and Arab sources, claims that most of the damage in the
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was not abolished, and local nobility retained most of their power. Because civil instability and foreign enemies were plaguing the caliphate, it was unable to launch another invasion and until 786 settled upon receiving irregular tributes from the
Georgian local princes.
769:, actually sided with the Arabs in order to repeal them beyond the Caucasian range. In any case, the Arab intervention gave them more power over Iberia than they had managed to attain in almost a century of previous conquests. They established the
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732:, were stationed. The Arabs failed to take the fortress and were forced to retreat. Fearing an onslaught, large numbers of Georgians fled to the mountainous regions. Marwan later invaded
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672:. The goals of the campaign are disputed among historians. The Georgian historiography insists its main purpose was to finally break the stiff Georgian resistance against
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and again turned to
Anakopia. The Arabs could not take the fortress, especially after heavy rains and floods began, and retreated with heavy losses.
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Eastern part of the country was actually the result of the previous Khazar raids, and that the local
Georgian prince,
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The invasion was led by Marwan ibn
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Marwan's cruelty and ruthlessness was epitomized by the
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to exert direct control over Iberia, even though the
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18:Marwan ibn Muhammad's invasion of Georgia
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544:Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
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993:Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's sack of Tbilisi
913:Scytho-Cimmerian invasions of the Caucasus
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740:and led his forces against the princes of
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688:, whose repeated raids affected not only
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49:Georgia and Caucasus after the invasion.
830:
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808:Studies in Christian Caucasian History
978:Shah Tahmasp I's invasions of Georgia
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432:Armenia within the Kingdom of Georgia
988:Shah Abbas I's invasions of Georgia
24:
1024:Invasions by the Umayyad Caliphate
556:Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
25:
1060:
532:Georgia within the Russian Empire
388:Unification of the Georgian realm
1049:Wars involving Georgia (country)
1039:8th century in Georgia (country)
692:(Eastern Georgia) and the whole
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113:
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863:Toumanoff 1963, p. 405, note 54
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1029:Invasions of Georgia (country)
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788:
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548:Democratic Republic of Georgia
448:Collapse of the Georgian realm
424:Kingdom of Georgia (1256–1329)
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1044:730s in the Umayyad Caliphate
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440:Turkoman invasions of Georgia
1003:Russian intervention of 2008
998:Red Army invasion of Georgia
928:Sasanian invasion of 541–562
923:Sasanian invasion of 526–532
680:, who exerted dominion over
552:Red Army invasion of Georgia
436:Timurid invasions of Georgia
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918:Georgian campaign of Pompey
638:Invasion of Marwan the Deaf
630:Umayyad invasion of Georgia
420:Mongol invasions of Georgia
344:Umayyad invasion of Georgia
30:Umayyad invasion of Georgia
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312:Christianization of Iberia
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492:Principality of Svaneti
404:Byzantine–Georgian wars
372:Kingdom of the Iberians
220:Shulaveri–Shomu culture
110:Principality of Kakheti
953:Great Turkish Invasion
670:Principality of Iberia
658:murvan q'rus shemoseva
408:Great Turkish Invasion
340:Principality of Iberia
163:Constantine of Argveti
134:Commanders and leaders
106:Principality of Iberia
963:Azat Mousa's invasion
488:Principality of Guria
775:Principate of Iberia
767:Guaram III of Iberia
647:მურვან ყრუს შემოსევა
461:Early modern history
412:Georgian–Seljuk wars
348:Arab rule in Georgia
292:Iberian–Armenian War
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416:Georgian Golden Age
376:Kingdom of Abkhazia
276:Pharnavazid dynasty
224:Kura–Araxes culture
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119:Kingdom of Abkhazia
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771:Emirate of Tbilisi
730:Leon I of Abkhazia
564:Russo-Georgian War
560:Georgia since 1991
536:1832 Georgian plot
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480:Kingdom of Kakheti
472:Samtskhe-Saatabago
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352:Emirate of Tbilisi
288:Campaign of Pompey
195:History of Georgia
148:Leon I of Abkhazia
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360:Duchy of Klarjeti
272:Kingdom of Iberia
228:Legend of Kartlos
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710:Marwan II
674:Arab rule
666:Marwan II
653:romanized
582:Etymology
336:Lazic War
175:Marwan II
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720:, where
718:Anakopia
694:Caucasus
642:Georgian
587:Monarchs
187:a series
185:Part of
71:Caucasus
66:Location
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746:Sukhumi
742:Argveti
738:Odzrkhe
686:Khazars
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662:Umayyad
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597:Tbilisi
264:Colchis
240:Diauehi
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296:Lazica
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