Was georgia part of persian empire. As a result those kingdoms were disintegrated into various feudal regions in the early middle ages. To the shows this day in history. Their head agha mohammad khan as his first objective resolved to bring the caucasus again fully under the persian orbit.
A look at some key events in russia georgia relations. The country of georgia became part of the russian empire in the 19th century. Eastern and southern georgia had been under intermittent persian suzerainty for many centuries up to the early course of the 19th century while western georgia had been under its suzerainty for much shorter periods of time throughout historygeorgia especially rose to importance from the time of the persian safavids.
The clashes reflected long simmering tensions between russia and georgia. Iberia soon became a part of the persian empire. Russian troops defeat the persian army during an 1804 1813 war.
Persia and georgia have had relations for thousands of years. The persian empire is the name given to a series of dynasties centered in modern day iran that spanned several centuriesfrom the sixth century bc. Egrisi often saw battles between rivals persia and the byzantine empire both of which managed to conquer western georgia from time to time.
1801 the russian empire moves to annex georgia following centuries of ottoman and persian domination.