JOINT BATTLE OF GEORGIANS AND OSSETIANS AGAINST AMIRA OF GANDZA IN THE LATE 70S OF THE XL CENTURY

Abstract

Conflict between Bagrati and Amira Padloni was finished. Bagrati managed to win this battle by the help of King of Ossetians, somehow, this meant failure of Alf-Arslan in Georgia. Padlon was his favorite, who helped him to implement his politics in Georgia. Probably, Padlon‟s failure played an important role in Georgian and Ossetian kings cere-monial meeting, as it is described in “Kartli Life”. Georgian Chronicle does not name the date of Gandza‟s failure by Ossetians, as we mentioned, King Bagrati should have arrested Padlo-ni in summer or autumn of 1069. After this, according to “Kartli Chroni-cle”, the events (giving Fadloni freedom, his re enmity to Georgia, Os-setians‟ transfer for helping by Bagrati, Gandzi‟s failure by them, cele-bration) developed fast one after another. Considering that, defeating Gamdzi Ossetians hurried to leave the place after celebration because of strict winter, winter of 1069-1070 can be considered as the date of Gandza „s defeat.