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In 1121 the Georgian kingdom defeated a huge Seljuk Türkish army near Tbilisi and Georgians consider this as greatest event in all their history.Georgian people celebrated every year their victory against Türks for 1000 years and today even they remember with official celebrations. Georgians even make movie about battle.
Georgians are proud and they are right because Seljuk army was led by famous prestigious Ilghazi Bey. Ilghazi was son of Artuk not from Seljuk family but noble Türkmen family. After Türkic war machine conquered Mideast, Great Seljuk chose Artuk as Jerusalem governor. After Artuk Bey died Ilghazi was Jerusalem governor for a few times. Ilghazi even defeated Frank Crusaders of Antioch in famous Battle of Ager Sanguinis 1119 (this means Field of Blood as Ilghazi destroyed Crusaders army + Armenians even killed their prince Roger of Salerno). Roger was Antioch prince and West Euro nobleman most likely French-Norman origins.
So this is maybe most important event in Georgian peoples history. They are proud of their king Davit.
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