Lekianoba (Georgian: ლეკიანობა) was the name given to sporadic forays by Northeast Caucasian people into Georgia from the 16th to the 19th centuries....

Battle of Kvareli Part of Lekianoba Inner walls of Kvareli castle Belligerents  Kingdom of Kakheti Kingdom of Kartli Avar Khanate Jar-Balakan Gazikumukh...

Battle of Niakhura Part of Lekianoba Battle of Iori river by Nikolay Samokish Belligerents  Russian Empire Kartli-Kakheti Avar Khanate Commanders and...

Battle of Ghartiskari Part of Lekianoba Belligerents Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti Lezgin marauders Commanders and leaders Ketevan Andronikashvili Unknown...

against the Georgian states, these sporadic forays are also known as Lekianoba in Georgian historiography. The references to these raids appear in the...

worthless things: "it is cheaper than Tavlin (Avar) hats in the Argun." Lekianoba Chechen-Kazikumukh war "Гази Алдамов, или Алдаман ГIеза, воевода и предвод...

to ensure his kingdom's security and most of his reign was marked by Lekianoba - incessant inroads by the Dagestani mountainous clansmen. Interregnum:...

1499–1504 Italian War of 1499–1504 – 20,000 killed in action c. 1500–1854 Lekianoba 1501–1512 Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512) 1502–1543 Guelders Wars 1503–1505...

from incessant marauding assaults from Dagestan known to Georgians as Lekianoba. In the words of the British historian David Marshall Lang, "his vigilance...

Vakhtang VI of Kartli helped the David II of Kakheti to fight against the Lekianoba. This army, under the command of Kaflanishvili, moved to Kardanakh and...

kingdom's security and most of his reign was marked by razzias (called Lekianoba) - incessant inroads by the Dagestani mountainous clansmen. David was...

troubles and the inroads of the Dagestani tribes, otherwise known as Lekianoba. During the years of captivity, Vakhtang requested aid from the Christian...

and granted them to the Dagestani feudal clans. As a result of raids (Lekianoba) conducted by bands of Avar and Tsakhur warriors in Saingilo, the Ingiloys...

Ch'ar-Belakan District) and Tsakhurian "free communes." As a result of raids (Lekianoba) conducted by bands of Avar and Tsakhur warriors in Saingilo, the Ingilos...

Lagodekhi across the modern Georgian border. This was near the area of Lekianoba where Dagestanis would cross the mountains to raid Georgia. Baddeley says...

everything for this." Saakashvili also made a reference to the memory of lekianoba, the 17th–18th century raids in which bands of Lezgi highlanders from...

its function as the seat of a bishop into the 18th century. Troubled by lekianoba, a series of marauding inroads from Dagestan, the Cheremi area had virtually...