The battle of Nigoiti took place between 20 and 27 May 1854 the village of
Nigoiti
Nigoiti ( ka, ნიგოითი) is a village in the Lanchkhuti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia with the population of 615 (2014). In 1854, during the Crimean War, the Battle of Nigoiti was fought nearby between the Ottoman Empire and ...
in
Guria
Guria ( ka, გურია) is a region (''mkhare'') in Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. The region has a population of 113,000 (2016), with Ozurgeti as the regional capital.
Geography ...
during the
Crimean war
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
.
Russo-Georgian detachments, under the command of
Ivane Andronikashvili
Prince Ivane Andronikashvili ( ka, ივანე ანდრონიკაშვილი), also known as Knyaz ''Ivan Malkhazovich Andronnikov'' (russian: Иван Малхазович Андронников) (1798 – November 19, 1868) was ...
, met an invading Ottoman force that had crossed the
river, the border between the Russian and Ottoman Empires.
Ozurgeti
Ozurgeti ( ka, ოზურგეთი ) is the capital of the western Georgian province of Guria. It was formerly known as Macharadze or Makharadze (named in honor of Filipp Makharadze). It is a regional center of tea and hazelnut processing. ...
, the capital of Guria, had been occupied by the Ottoman since 11 April, and with the Russian victory at Nigoiti it allowed the Russian forces under Andronikashvili to move towards it, leading to the
Battle of Choloki on 4 June.
Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor in chi ...
Vol. 7, pp. 412–413, 1984.
References
Nigoiti
Nigoiti ( ka, ნიგოითი) is a village in the Lanchkhuti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia with the population of 615 (2014). In 1854, during the Crimean War, the Battle of Nigoiti was fought nearby between the Ottoman Empire and ...
Nigoiti
Nigoiti ( ka, ნიგოითი) is a village in the Lanchkhuti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia with the population of 615 (2014). In 1854, during the Crimean War, the Battle of Nigoiti was fought nearby between the Ottoman Empire and ...
Nigoiti
Nigoiti ( ka, ნიგოითი) is a village in the Lanchkhuti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia with the population of 615 (2014). In 1854, during the Crimean War, the Battle of Nigoiti was fought nearby between the Ottoman Empire and ...
19th century in Georgia (country)
1854 in the Ottoman Empire
Nigoiti
Nigoiti ( ka, ნიგოითი) is a village in the Lanchkhuti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia with the population of 615 (2014). In 1854, during the Crimean War, the Battle of Nigoiti was fought nearby between the Ottoman Empire and ...
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