"vello" <vellokala@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>As usually, you copy-pasted just parts interesting from your
wiewpoint. May I add facts you "forgot" to put in your post.
In 1783, Russia and the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Kartli-Kakheti
received protection by Russia. This, however, did not prevent Tbilisi
from being sacked by the Persians in 1795.
>On December 22, 1800, Tsar Paul I of Russia, at the alleged request of
the Georgian King George XII, signed the proclamation on the
incor****ation of Georgia (Kartli-Kakheti) within the Russian Empire,
which was finalized by a decree on January 8, 1801,[20][21] and
confirmed by Tsar Alexander I on September 12, 1801.[22][23] The
Georgian envoy in Saint Petersburg reacted with a note of protest that
was presented to the Russian vice-chancellor Prince Kurakin.[24] In
May 1801, Russian General Carl Heinrich Knorring dethroned the
Georgian heir to the throne David Batonishvili and instituted a
government headed by General Ivan Petrovich Lasarev.[25]
>The Georgian nobility did not accept the decree until April 1802 when
General Knorring compassed the nobility in Tbilisi's Sioni Cathedral
and forced them to take an oath on the Imperial Crown of Russia. Those
who disagreed were arrested tem****arily.[26]
>(wikipedia: Georgia)
- and that's just from wiki alone. it's really a no-brainer to make the
call
of a history of conflict between two ancient regions.
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