| Titre | Notes et documents sur les Ottomans, les Safavides et la Géorgie, 1516-1521 [Études turco-safavides, VI] | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 10, no 2, avril-juin 1979 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier |
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| Page | 239-272 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont, Notes and documents concerning the Ottomans, the Safavids and Georgia, 1516-1521.
The present article is one of the five studies (cf. list in the preliminary note) devoted to the part played by the Georgian States in the Ottoman and Safavid foreign policy between 1500 and 1524. It is dealing with the crisis which, as from the end of 1515 opposed two pretenders to the succession of atabeg Mzé-Čâbûk, prince of Samtzkhé-Saatabago (the southernmost Georgian State), tributary of the Ottoman Porte. This rivalry led the two competitors to seek help respectively from Šâh Isma'il and from the Ottoman Sultan Selîm I, at war with each other since 1514. Selîm, who at the time was fighting for the conquest of the Mamluk Empire, had decided to undertake upon his return a major campaign against the Safavid Iran, the defeat of which would have involved the settlement of the Georgian crisis to the advantage of the Ottomans. This particular situation explains why the military assistance granted by the Sultan to his candidate Manučar was extremely slight so that the latter was rapidly defeated by Kvarkvaré, protected by the Shah. Selîm was finally forced to give up the projected campaign and Kvarkvaré III remained atabeg. It is probable, however, that the Safavid suzerainty claimed too heavy a tribute from the principality, so that Kvarkvaré approached the Ottomans early in 1521, offering to place himself under their protection and to turn against Šâh Isma'il. However, Selîm had died the year before and his son and successor Süleymân, unlike his father, decided to withdraw progressively from the oriental front to concentrate his military efforts in the Balkans, so that the advances of Kvarkvaré remained without a reply. A few months later, the atabeg joined in the general revolt of Georgian principalities against the Shah. This event is studied in another article of the present series. As Georgian chronicles present gaps and are untrustworthy with regard to the history of this period, we have endeavoured to ascertain the facts on the basis of two important unpublished documents of the Topkapi Palace Archives and by confronting systematically the data provided by the available Ottoman, Safavid and Venitian sources. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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