The goal of the present paper is to determine the specific location of the battle between Khalid ibn-Yazid and Sahak (Ishak), emir of Tbilisi. The Arab conquests in Transcaucasia gave rise to the formation of dominion of the emirate of Tbilisi over the territory of Eastern Georgia. In the beginning of the 9-th century Tbilisi emirs, deprived of part of their domain, ceased to obey the power of the Caliph and misappropriated tributes that had been collected. Caliphs resorted to punitive expeditions to bring disobedient emirs to obedience.

Zurab, the Eristavi of Aragvi, was one of the more interesting political figures of 17th century Georgia. In both Georgian historiography and folklore (for example, in Pshavian, Mtiuletian and Khevsur oral traditions) we find interesting facts about Zurab, the Eristavi of Aragvi. In Georgian historiography as well as in folklore, he takes his place as a traitorous and negative personality.

Georgians recognized the Great Slavic Union of the East Slavs - Kiev State, from the edge of X-XI centuries. The promotion of the Kiev Principality helped the Vladimir and the introduction of Christianity in 988-989. From that time it is connected to the Kiev's principal Christian Orthodox countries, including Georgia, which was fragmented at that time.

Ilia Chavchavadze’s მგზავრის წერილები (mgzavris c’erilebi ‘Letters of a Traveler’ composed between 1861-1871) is perhaps the single most important political writing of the Georgian generation of the 1860’s, who called themselves თერგ-დალეულები (terg-daleulebi ‘those who have drunk from the Terek river’), a term which appears in this text with ambiguous reference, denoting not amember of the intelligentsia represented by the narrator, but insteada member of the Georgian people, Lelt Ghunia, who as a Mokhevian peasant dwells beside the Terek river in Khevi, and is therefore a true თერგ-დალეული