Bazaleti (historical area)

Bazaleti (Georgian: ბაზალეთი) is a historical area in eastern Georgia, located around the modern-day town of Dusheti (Mtskheta-Mtianeti region), where a village and a lake called Bazaleti can be found.

The first human settlements in the area called Bazaleti plateau date back to the Stone Age.

Bazaleti is first mentioned—as being plundered by the Caucasian tribe of Dzurdzuk—in the early medieval Georgian account of the reign of Mirvan, the second king in the traditional royal list of Kartli (Iberia), whose rule can be relegated to the 2nd century BC.

[1] The 9th-century Muslim author al-Baladhuri reports the Arab conquest of Bazaleti (Bāzalīt).

[2] In the last years of the 13th century, Bazaleti was overrun by the Mongols who fought David VIII of Georgia.