Ivane Akhaltiskheli ( ka, ივანე ახალციხელი) (died 1225) was a

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military commander and courtier, of the noble house of

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Akhaltsikheli {{Short description, Georgian noble family Akhaltsikheli ( ka, ახალციხელი; pl. ''Akhaltsikhelebi'', ახალციხელები) were a Georgian noble family prominent in the end of the 12th to the mid-13th centuries. T ...

.Shoshiashvili N. ''History of the Feudal House of Toreli and Shota Rustaveli'', Tbilisi 1966 In 1206/1207,

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and Ivane Akhaltsikheli, together with Sargis Tmogveli, captured the city of

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from the

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, for this he was kindly rewarded by

Queen Tamar Tamar the Great ( ka, თამარ მეფე, tr, lit. "King Tamar") ( 1160 – 18 January 1213) reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age. A member of the Bagrationi dynasty ...

and was appointed as the governor of the

to secure

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's frontier boundaries. Along with his brother Ivane participated in

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(1203) and

battle of Garni The Battle of Garni was fought in 1225 near Garni, in modern day Armenia, then part of the Kingdom of Georgia. The invading Khwarazmian Empire was led by Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, its last Sultan, who was driven from his realm by the Mongol Empi ...

(1225), where he was killed while retreating to the mountains.

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Military personnel from Georgia (country) Nobility of Georgia (country) 1225 deaths 12th-century people from Georgia (country) 13th-century people from Georgia (country) Year of birth unknown People from Akhaltsikhe {{Georgia-mil-bio-stub