[5] The Georgians, led by general Giorgi Saakadze, annihilated an Iranian detachment of Shah-Abbas I.

Upon Giorgi's advice, Qarachaqay Khan dispatched most of his troops to different parts of Javakheti, caused them disperse and made them easier to defeat.

At dawn on 25 March, Annunciation, the joint Kartlian and Kakhetian troops approached the enemy's camp.

The rest of the Georgians under their second commander Zurab Eristavi, encroached upon the confused enemy who were left without any guidance at that time.

The data about the Martkopi battle are given in “the Life of Kartli” and by a Turkish chronicler Mustafa Naima of the 17th century.