A PROMINENT SCHOLAR ON ARMENO-GEORGIAN CONFLICT

    

      Ronald Grigor Suny

      (excerpt from the book”The Making of the Georgian Nation”/Indianopolis/1994)

 

 

 

Shortly after the republic (of Georgia – Ed.) was founded, conflict with the Armenia broke out over the border regions of Akhalkalaki, Borchalu, and Lori.

 
The Armeno-Georgian marchlands had been held at various times by the Armenians, and Georgians, but in the nineteenth century (and even more during World War I), the Muslim population had been reduced and refugees from the Turkish massacres swelled the Armenian population. With withdrawal of Turkish armies from Transcaucasia, Georgian forces occupied parts of northern Lori and Akhalkalaki, and Armenians moved into southern Lori and Pambak. Efforts at a peaceful solution to the territorial dispute failed, and in December 1918 fighting commenced.

 
p. 202

 

 

 

 

 

 

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