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Assyrians in Georgia (Georgian: ასურელები) number 3,299 (as of 2002), and most arrived in the Southern Caucasus in early 20th century when their ancestors fled present-day Turkey and Iran during the Assyrian genocide.
The prehistory of Georgia is the period between the first human habitation of the territory of modern-day nation of Georgia and the time when Assyrian and Urartian, and more firmly, the Classical accounts, brought the proto-Georgian tribes into the scope of recorded history.
The Yanghai leather scale armor is a piece of assyrian styled leather armor that was dated to be from the years 786-543 BCE in northwest China and was manufactured in the neo-assyrian empire. The leathered armor is made up of 5,444 smaller scales with 140 large scales making the total weight of the Yanghai leather scale armor to be 4–5 kg. [ 1 ]
The earliest evidence for lamellar armour comes from sculpted artwork of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BC) in the Near East. [ citation needed ] Lamellar armour should not be confused with laminar armour , a related form of plate armour which is made from horizontal overlapping rows or bands of solid armour plates (called lames ) rather ...
The Assyrian empire has been described as the "first military power in history". [9] Mesopotamia was the site of some of the earliest recorded battles in history. [10] [11] In fact, the first recorded battle was between the forces of Lagash and Umma c. 2450 BC.
Georgia maintained a claim on western land from 31° N to 35° N, the southern part of which overlapped with the Mississippi Territory created from part of Spanish Florida in 1798. Following a series of land scandals, Georgia ceded its claims in 1802, fixing its present western boundary. In 1804, the federal government added the cession to the ...
The Neo-Assyrian Empire was a diverse and multi-ethnic state from people from many tribes of different origins. It was a uniformly structured political entity with well-defined and well-guarded borders, and the Assyrian kings certainly regarded it as a unified whole, "the land of Aššur", whose territory they constantly strove to expand.
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.