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Nana Khazaradze Nana Bakhsoliani
HISTORY LESSONS
(ON POLITICAL HISTORY OF ASIA MINOR IN THE LATE HITTITE PERIOD)
In the context of the evidence of the 9 th -7 th cc. BC Assyrian written monuments, on the
example of one of the political units – Tabal, the basic directions of the struggle against the Assyrian
Empire of the so-called ”minor countries”, formed at the turn of the 10 th -9 th cc. BC in eastern Asia
Minor, are reconstructed as fully as possible. In the authors` view, in spite of the fact that the
present-day world fundamentally differs from the world of the 1 st millennium BC (which is quite
regular), for “minor countries”, which achieved independence and freedom in the 20 th c. by great
efforts, the period containing risk factors has not ended yet. Nowdays, for countries (including
Georgia) located in the neighbourhood of states that are obsessed with imperial ambitions, special
significance attaches to working out of a strategy and tactics of selfpreservation, based on scientific
analysis. In this respect, awareness of lessons of history and their consideration in great politics
remain for them a major challenge in the 21 st c.
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