Abbas has subjected Kakheti to repeated invasions…

Abbas has subjected Kakheti to repeated invasions from 1614 to 1617.

Sixty to seventy thousand people have been killed in a series of Georgian insurrections and Iranian reprisals, and more than one hundred thousand Kakhetian peasants have been forcibly deported into Iran.

The population of Kakheti has dropped by two-thirds; once flourishing towns, like Gremi and Zagemi, have shrunk to insignificant villages; agriculture has declined and commerce has come to a standstill.