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86: 338:, Beytimur, managed to supersede them through cunning diplomacy. However, this was only beginning of the internal power struggles and external pressures, which ensued over the next years. During this period, a series of mamluks ruled over Khlat and its power rapidly declined. In 1206, the revolution in Khlat made the mamluk Balaban a new ruler, although the people of Khlat offered the town to 402:
and pressed hard on those within. They collected the revenue of the region for several years. The emir of Kars asked the rulers of Khlat for help, but its rulers did not provide any assistance. After the long siege, the emir of Kars, seeing that no assistance was coming, decided to hand over his
350:, besieged Khlat, reviving the claims of his family over the town. However, this siege ended with no success for Ayyubid. At the same time, Georgians, which also contested control over Khlat, decided to take advantage of the turmoil there to annex 194: 189: 403:
domain to Georgians in exchange for a large amount of money and a fiefdom for him. Due to the significance of Kars, Tamar decided not to give it away as a favor as she had done in the case of
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had been blockading Kars intermittently for some years, and Queen
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Index

Georgian–Seljuk wars
Kars
Turkey
Kingdom of Georgia
David Soslan
Zakare II Mkhargrdzeli
Ivane I Mkhargdzeli
Sargis Tmogveli
Shalva Akhaltsikheli
Ivane Akhaltsikheli
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Georgian–Seljuk wars
Ganja
Kapetron
First invasion
Second invasion
Partskhisi
Great Turkish Invasion
Ertsukhi
Ganja
Trialeti
Rakhsi
Botora
Didgori
Tbilisi
Ani
Shamkor
Basiani

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