The Battle of Tsitsamuri (Georgian: წიწამურის ბრძოლა) was fought in 1615[5] between the armies of Kingdom of Kakheti under Teimuraz I and Persian Empire led by Ali Kuli Khan.
Shah Abbas I sent his general, Ali Kuli Khan Shumla with 15,000 Qizilbash militants to crush the uprising, who set up fortifications near the village of Tsitsamuri.
According to contemporary Georgian historian Parsadan Gorgijanidze, "the prices of camels were halved after salvaging the stashes from Persian camps".
[6] Despite the important victory won by the Georgians in 1615, the rebellion was crushed the following year when Shah Abbas I personally led the second invasion with a much larger army.
The Shah, unable to halt the partisan warfare of the rebels, burned down villages and towns one by one, killing 100,000 Kakhetians and deporting 150,000 to 200,000 to Persia.