Next year, Jalal al-Din marched on to Tbilisi, forcing Queen Rusudan of Georgia and her court into fight.

The anonymous 14th-century Georgian chronicle, conventionally known as the Chronicle of a Hundred Years, laments: "Words are powerless to convey the destruction that the enemy brought: tearing infants from their mothers' breasts, they beat their heads against the bridge, watching as their eyes dropped from their skulls...".

[1] The Muslim historians Ibn al-Athir and Nasawi, the latter being Jalal's secretary and biographer, confirm the killings of Christians who did not accept Islam at the sultan's order.

[1][4] Kirakos Gandzaketsi, an Armenian historian from 13th century, also narrated that Jalal al-Din and his soldiers forced Georgians to convert, mistreated women, destroyed churches and removed the signs of cross.

[5] The medieval Georgian chronicler puts the number of those killed at ათნი ბევრნი (at'ni bevrni).