escort, and freed his father.

In the spring of 1387, Timur returned in Georgia to take revenge, however, Khan Tokhtamysh's reappearance in Iran forced Timur to temporarily withdraw. As soon as the Golden Horde was defeated, Timur returned to attack Georgia again. In 1394, he dispatched four generals to the province of Samtskhe, with orders to apply the Islamic law of ghaza (i.e. the systematic raiding of non-Muslim lands).