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The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, [note 3] was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region. It is regarded as the first European war of ...
World War I: 15–30 million [15] [16] [17] 1914–1918 Allied Powers vs. Central Powers: Global Manchu Conquest of China: 25 million [18] [19] 1618–1683 Manchu vs. Ming Dynasty: China Conquests of Timur: 7–20 million [10] 1369–1405 Timurid Empire vs. various states in Asia Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia Russian Civil War: 7–12 ...
Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The conflict began on 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded ...
Georgian SSR (before 1990) / Georgia (after 1990) The Abkhazia conflict is a territorial dispute over Abkhazia, a region on the eastern coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. The conflict involves Georgia, the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Republic of ...
Early states in present-day Georgia, c. 600 to 150 BC. Iberia (Georgian: იბერია, Latin: Iberia and Greek: Ἰβηρία), also known as Iveria (Georgian: ივერია), was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the Georgian kingdom of Kartli [1] (4th century BC – 5th century AD), corresponding roughly to east and south present-day Georgia.
The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history.The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding similar combat-related or civilian deaths) and civilian casualties during the battles.
842. Battle of Rekha [ ka ][ 13 ] Gori Municipality, Shida Kartli, Georgia. Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Shaybani 's campaign in the Caucasus. Emirate of Tbilisi. Principality of Kakheti [ 13 ] Abbasid Caliphate. Arminiya. Kouropalatate of Tao-Klarjeti.