Sack of Tbilisi

Name: Sack of Tbilisi
Start: 1795
Location: Krtsanisi, near Tbilisi

1795 · Krtsanisi, near Tbilisi · Middle East · War

Persian troops sack Tbilisi to punish Georgia's tie to Russia

Agha Mohammad Khan demanded that King Heraclius II renounce the Treaty of Georgievsk with Russia and, when refused, marched on Kartli-Kakheti. After beating the Georgians at Krtsanisi his army sacked Tbilisi and carried off thousands of captives; no Russian help came, and in 1801 the kingdom was annexed to the Russian Empire.

State: Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti

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