TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rayfield,Donald
TI  - Edge of empires: a history of Georgia 
SN  - 9781780230306
AV  - DK675.4 .R39 2012
U1  - 947.58 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Reaktion Books
KW  - Georgia (Republic)
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The emergence of the Kartvelians -- The origins of the kingdom of Kartli -- Conversion -- The Arab conquest -- Unification -- Davit the builder -- Demetre and Giorgi III -- Queen Tamar -- Mongol invasion -- The fractured state -- Timur Lang and the destruction of Georgia -- Fraticide -- King Teimuraz I -- Teimuraz dispossessed -- The eighteenth century -- The Russian conquest of Kartli-Kakhetia -- King Solomon's end -- Vice-regency -- Reaction and revolution -- Independence -- Soviet annexation -- After Stalin -- Independence restored
ER  -