Originally Posted by
Böri
Kipchaks saved Georgia. Ilghazi attacked Georgia with 30k Turkish warriors, he had brought his army all way from Aleppo.
He faced the Georgian army of 20k + 40k Kipchak mercenaries. They easily repelled the attack.
Kipchaks were people who would even fight their own father for money, that's the sad part of the story that Turks (Turcomans) were stopped by some other Turkic people in Didgori. Had he succeeded, Turks would go unchallenged until Abkhazia.
I am a little pissed that the career of a man like Ilghazi, who served as master and Governor of Jerusalem, who then became Bey of his state in Mardin, expanding to Aleppo. Wipping out Norman army at famous Ager Sanguinis battle.
He should have won at Didgori. Anyway, life story of Ilghazi is like man of first class, so much experience and ventures.
For what they are and how they act, working for gold, Kipchaks ultimately lost anything they had. They went extinct, were it not for Golden Horde Mongols adopting their language as lingua franca.
No surprise after Queen Tamar, Kipchaks also sold out their Georgian allies for Mongol golds.
Mongols turned Georgia into ashes.