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The Russian withdrawal from Transcaucasia during the 1730s was very disillusioning for many Georgians, who had hoped for liberation from Islamic rule. The most pro-Russian of the Georgian monarchs, Vakhtang VI, had been deposed by the Turks and forced into exile in Russia. Most of Georgia was subject to what was called the osmanloba, a harsh military occupation marked by violence and looting, perpetrated by the Ottomans and their mountain allies upon the populace.
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© 2000 Nikolas K. Gvosdev
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Gvosdev, N.K. (2000). The Embassy of Teimuraz II. In: Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760–1819. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403932785_2
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