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Today π¬πͺcelebrate #Didgoroba. Didgoroba marks King David IV's defeat of the Seljuk Turks in the battle of Didgori, which ultimately led to the reconquest of Tbilisi,and brought about the Georgian Golden Age and is celebrated in the Georgian chronicles as a "Miraculous Victory"
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The Muslim powers became increasingly concerned about the rapid rise of the Christian state in the southern Caucasus and even considered it a greater threat than the Crusaders in Palestine, whom they managed to contain on the coast.
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In 1121, Sultan Mahmud Muhammad declared a holy war on π¬πͺand rallied a large coalition of Muslim states led by the Artuqid Najm al-din El-Δazi and ToΔrul Muhammad, the Seljuqid ruler of Arran and Nakhichevan.The coalition was also supported by lesser but important local rulers
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