Marwan ibn Muhammad's invasion of Georgia takes place from 735 to 737.
It is initiated by the Umayyad Caliphate.
The goals of the campaign are disputed among historians.
If Georgian historiography insists its main purpose was to finally break stiff Georgian resistance against Arab rule, western historian Cyril Toumanoff, followed by Ronald Suny, views it as a more general campaign directed at both the Byzantine Empire, who exert dominion over Western Georgia, and the Khazars, whose repeated raids affect not only Iberia (Eastern Georgia) and the whole Caucasus, but had in 730 reached Arab lands all the way to Mosul.The invasion is led by Marwan ibn Muhammad, who later becomes the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II.
