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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 ...
Dissatisfied with gains from the First Balkan War, Bulgaria attacked former allies Serbia and Greece; Attacks repulsed by Greece and Serbia, whose armies enter Bulgaria; Romanian and Ottoman intervention forced Bulgaria to ask for armistice; Bulgarian territorial cessations in Treaty of Bucharest and Treaty of Constantinople; World War I (1914 ...
George succeeded in expanding Georgia's borders temporarily to their former extent. [7] 1407-1502 Turkoman invasions of Georgia: Kingdom of Georgia Shirvanshah Safavid Empire (1502) Qara Qoyunlu (1407-1468) Aq Qoyunlu (1468-1502) Victory End of invasions against Georgia and consolidation of Safavids in Persia; 1463-1493 Georgian civil war of ...
August 12 - President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev said that he had ordered an end to military operations in Georgia. However, Russian air raids did not stop in Georgia. Russian troops marched in Poti and took up positions around it. [20] Abkhaz forces captured the Kodori Valley, from which Georgian forces and civilians had retreated. [21]
Russia, which ruled Georgia for about 200 years, won a brief war against the country in 2008, and memories of Russian tanks rolling towards Tbilisi are still fresh for many.
Bulgarian troops marching at a victory parade in Sofia celebrating the end of World War II, 1945. Bulgaria did not join the German invasion of the Soviet Union that began on 22 June 1941 nor did it declare war on the Soviet Union.
The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains in order to recover the territories lost in the Second Balkan War and World War I, as well as gain other lands with a significant ...
This is a list of the battles in the history of the country of Georgia. The list gives the name, the date, the combatants, and the result of the battles following this legend: Georgian victory