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Georgian nobles at Tsivi as they adjoint Mongol invaders from the North.
The related evidence is preserved considering attacks of the Golden Horde
in 735/1334-35 and 736/1335-36. Uzbek Khan invaded Azerbaijan and
Iran and reached Kura. According to the sources, “some by their minded-
ness aspired toward him and he reached Kura relying on them” [35, 93,143].
Not accidentally, Abu Said died in 1335, during the campaign against the
Golden Horde.  
Vakhushti Bagrationi mentions King Giorgi’s raids to Daruband and
setting order on Caucasian crossovers and that was duly appreciated by the
Mongol Il-khans [34, 256-257]. “He conferred the title of Atabeg and
Amirspasalar to Sargis Jakeli, gathered troops and entered Rani; nobody
opposed him; from there he moved to Shirvan and subdued them and levied
Daruband with Lezghians.” [34, 256-257]. 
After uniting the Georgia “the King again investigated the situation of
Mtiuls and Caucasians (highlanders of Georgia and Central and West Cau-
casia), since a lot was improper there. Gathered the troops, entered and
subdued all in Caucasus who exceeded the rights of the King”  and ‘taming
and enslaving all and everybody throughout the Caucasus, and ruling from
Nicophsy to Daruband...’ [34, 258-259] – Georgia again summons up the
traditional role of defending the southern territories from invaders. Prob-
ably, that was the reason why, according to the Arab authors, the Hulaguids
‘Trust and lay on the Georgians, and especially so the sons, grandsons and
other offspring of Juban’ [13, 51, 54]. 
Thus, we presume that:
* In the years of 1305/6, 1310/11, 1316/7 and 1320 it was the King
of the West Georgia – Constantine the son of David, who sent his envoys to
the Sultan of Egypt and managed to redeem the Holy Cross Monastery from
Muslims;
* Giorgi the Brilliant starts his activities in the Holy Land in strict ac-
cordance with the Peace Treaty he himself negotiated between the Il-khans
and Egypt (1323); 
* No dead-scroll carries the script of David VIII, the King of Georgia,
but David IX, son to Giorgi V, is named as the rebuilder of the Holy Cross
Monastery. 
* King Giorgi the Brilliant obtains independence thanks to his flexible
diplomacy, through his backing up the Il-kans in confrontation of the North-
ern and Southern Mongols, and rightly defining his personal role in the con-
flict.   
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