Text, History of Iberia during the 2nd Century BC

Iberia experienced extremely hardship times during the second century B.C. and the beginning of the first century B.C. Iberia lost three of its southern provinces to its strengthened neighbor Armenia and some territories of the western provinces to Pontus Kingdom. Albania also had some claims over the extreme territories in the east. In early spring of 65 B.C. Roman legions under Pompey's leadership came close to the reaches of Mtskheta, the capital of Kartli Kingdom unexpectedly for Kartli's King Artag who tried to save time by delaying the battle in an anticipation to get support from the Alan from the North Caucasus. The tactics worked an the truce..