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Siege of Tbilisi

Name: Siege of Tbilisi
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

Siege of Tbilisi was a siege conducted in AD 627 at Tbilisi, in what is now Georgia; it ran into the following year. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Tbilisi. It was part of Third Perso-Turkic War, which ran from AD 627 to AD 629. The recorded result: Byzantine victory. Recorded strength: Unknown the number of Iberians; 1,000 Sasanids against 40,000.

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FoughtAD 627ran into the following year

WhereTbilisi, Georgia41.722N, 44.792E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeByzantine victory

BelligerentsSasanian Iberia; Sasanian EmpireagainstByzantine Empire; Western Turkic Khaganate

Part ofThird Perso-Turkic WarAD 627 to AD 629

Record

Date	AD 627 (year precision) to AD 628
Place	Tbilisi, Georgia 41.722N, 44.792E
Kind	Siege, medieval
Strength	Unknown the number of Iberians; 1,000 Sasanids	40,000
Commanders	Stephen I of Iberia Shahraplakan	Heraclius Böri Shad Tong Yabghu

Placed at Tbilisi; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Tbilisi 1795, same recorded site
German Caucasus Expedition 1918, 0.9 km SE
Bergmann Offensive 1914, 0.9 km SE
Siege of Tbilisi 1386, 4.6 km SE
Siege of Tbilisi 1121, 4.6 km SE

In the same war

After: Turkic invasion of Armenia AD 628

Elsewhere in AD 627

Battle of the Trench Saudi Arabia
Battle of Nineveh Iraq

Siege of Tbilisi is one of 203 engagements of the 7th century in the atlas and one of 116 in present-day Georgia.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q16379713, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Tbilisi (627–628), revision 1381251048, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.