Siege of Tbilisi (627–628)

Siege of Tbilisi
Part of Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 and the Perso-Turkic war of 627–629
Date627–628
Location
Tbilisi
Result Byzantine-Turkic victory
Belligerents
Sasanian Iberia
Sasanian Empire		 Byzantine Empire
Western Turkic Khaganate (retreated)
Commanders and leaders
Stephen I 
Shahraplakan		 Heraclius
Böri Shad
Tong Yabghu Qaghan
Strength
Unknown the number of Iberians
1,000 Sasanids		 40,000

The siege of Tbilisi, or Tiflis, was a siege by the Byzantine Empire and western Turkic Khaganate in 627–628 against Prince Stephen I of Iberia, the Sasanid vassal ruler of Sasanian Iberia.

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