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The film is a dramatization of the story of Giorgi Saakadze (portrayed by Akaki Khorava), a 17th-century Georgian political and military leader who was celebrated as a national hero of Georgia in Soviet wartime propaganda.
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- Tbilisi Film Studio
The Battle of Martqopi ( Georgian: მარტყოფის ბრძოლა) was a 1625 military confrontation between the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli and Safavid Iran. The Georgians, led by general Giorgi Saakadze, annihilated an Iranian detachment of Shah-Abbas I.
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Dec 15, 2001 · In subduing the two Georgian kingdoms, ʿAbbās had counted on a leading noble, Giorgi Saakadze (known to the Persians as Mūrāv Beg). A Muslim, he was admired in Persia for his military exploits and was regularly consulted on Georgian affairs (Eskandar Beg, pp. 1020-21, tr. Savory, pp. 1242-43).
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When Shah Abbas I succeeded in driving the Ottoman armies out of eastern Georgia, leaving a Persian force in Tbilisi, he confirmed Luarsab as king of Kartli. The Ottomans attempted to remove Luarsab, sending a large army of Crimean Tatars to Georgia. In June 1609, their army invaded Kartli, sacked and looted several villages, captured part of the p...
In the meantime, the Georgians gathered an army and under the command of Giorgi Saakadze and Zaza Tsitsishvili, at the village of Nyabi (now Kaspi municipality), at the Shcherti swamp, they turned back the enemy. Returning to Gori, they found a bridge over Mtkvari river. Then they turned towards Akhaltsikhe. near the village Brbona river. They cros...
Mikaberidze, Alexander, ed. (2015). "Saakadze, Giorgi (ca.1570-1629)". Historical Dictionary of Georgia. Rowman & Littlefield.Rayfield, Donald (2012). Edge of Empires, a History of Georgia. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78023-070-2.- 16 June 1609
- Tashiskari, Georgia
- Georgian victory
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Giorgi Saakadze (c. 1570–1629) was a Georgian politician and military commander who played an important but contradictory role in the politics of the early 17th-century Georgia.
Mikheil Chiaureli. Synopsis. Georgia is being torn into pieces by the Ottoman Empire, Persia and the Russian Empire. Only one man can unite Georgian people in their fight for independence -...
Giorgi Saakadze (Georgian: გიორგი სააკაძე; c. 1570 – October 3, 1629) was a Georgian politician and military commander who played an important but contradictory role in the politics of the early 17th-century Georgia. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giorgi Saakadze has received more than 82,295 page views.
