The Caucasus

The isthmus between the Black Sea and the Caspian: a corridor every empire on either side wanted, none could cheaply hold, and all of them marched through — where local houses survived by being expensive to take and useful to leave alone.

The line below is a time axis. Position on it is date, so concurrency is visible: concurrent polities sit side by side rather than in sequence.

11 sourced edges run between this region and another, to Safavid Empire, Abbasid Caliphate, Seleucid Empire, Parthian Empire, Sasanian Empire, Great Seljuk Empire, Byzantine Empire and Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Those are not drawn on this line — a thread that crossed regions would assert a sequence nobody cited — but they are on each polity’s own page.

200 BC20040060080010001200140016001800Kingdom of Iberia 302–200 BC to 580–588Caucasian Albania 200–100 BC to 705–822Kingdom of Greater Armenia 190–189 BC to 428Shirvanshahs 799–861 to 1500–1538Emirate of Derbend 869 – 1077Bagratid Armenia 884–885 to 1045Shaddadid Emirate 951 – 1199Kingdom of Georgia 1008 – 1490Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti 1762 – 1801Caucasian Imamate 1828 – 18591199 Shaddadid Emirate conquered by Kingdom of Georgia1762 Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti absorbed remnants of Kingdom of Georgia