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Didgori, Battle of

Years: 1121 - 1121

The Battle of Didgori is fought between the armies of the Kingdom of Georgia and the crumbling Great Seljuq Empire at a place called Didgori, 40 km west of Tbilisi, (the present-day capital of Georgia), on August 12, 1121.

The battle results in King David IV of Georgia’s decisive victory over a Seljuk invasion army under Ilghazi and the subsequent reconquest of a Muslim-held Tbilisi, which becomes the royal capital.

The victory at Didgori inaugurates medieval Georgia’s "Golden Age" and is celebrated in the Georgian chronicles as a "miraculous victory", while modern Georgians continue to remember the event as an annual September festival known as Didgoroba ("[the day] of Didgori").

“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”

—Lord Acton, Lectures on Modern History (1906)