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What is now Georgia and much of the rest of the Caucuses region was once known as the Kingdom of Georgia, which lasted from the late tenth to the late fifteenth centuries. It occupied present day Georgia, as well as large parts of Armenia and Azerbaijan and small parts of Anatolia, Russia, and Iran.

Unfortunately for Georgia, the country faced a series of problems that eventually tore the nation apart. The mongols invaded. The black plague came. Civil War. And to top if all off, Timur invaded the country.

Is there anyway the Kingdom of Georgia can plausibly survive after all these catastrophes? According to Wikipedia, the country was still relatively powerful after the mongols and plague, but Timur's invasion of the area was what really put the final nail in the coffin for the kingdom. What if the Georgian's can somehow kill Timur? That would probably cause Timur's empire to crumble, yet at the same time the Ottomans would just fill in the power vacuum. Is Georgia doomed to fail until the 19th/20th centuries or is it possible for it to survive?
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