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The outbreak of war between the Russians and the Ottomans caught King Erekle by surprise. As a sign of good faith, and to signal his intent to carry out his Treaty with pasha Suleiman of Akhaltsikhe, Erekle had sent two Georgian princes as hostages to Suleiman’s court in July 1787.1 Erekle was on campaign when the news of the opening of hostilities reached him, with both the Georgian army and the Russian expeditionary force assisting in the quelling of a rebellion launched by the Muslim khan of Gandja, traditionally a vassal of the Georgian king
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© 2000 Nikolas K. Gvosdev
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Gvosdev, N.K. (2000). Georgia Abandoned (1787–97). In: Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760–1819. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403932785_5
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