Thirty Years' Truce

{{Short description|1210 truce between Georgia and the Ayyubids}}

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The Thirty Years' Truce or Truce of Khlat was a truce agreed to by Queen Tamar of Georgia and Al-Adil I, an Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt in October, 1210.

By 1208, the Kingdom of Georgia challenged Ayyubid rule in eastern Anatolia and besieged Khlat. In response Ayyubid Sultan al-Adil I assembled and personally led large Muslim army that included the emirs of Homs, Hama, and Baalbek as well as contingents from other Ayyubid principalities to support al-Awhad. During the siege, Georgian general Ivane Mkhargrdzeli accidentally fell into the hands of the al-Awhad on the outskirts of Khlat and was released only after the Georgians agreed to a thirty-year truce on following terms:{{cite book|title=Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia|last=Rayfield|first=Donald|publisher=Reaktion Books|year=2012|isbn=978-1780230306|location=London|pages=114–115|author-link=Donald Rayfield}}

• Georgia had to pay ransom of 100,000 dinars;
• Georgia had to cede 27 castles;
• Georgia had to liberate 5000 muslim prisoners;
• Ivane had to promise the hand of his daughter Tamta to his captor.V. Minorsky, Studies in Caucasian history, Taylors Foreign Press, 1953. pg 90-93

The truce ended the Georgian menace to Ayyubid Armenia.Humphreys, 1977 p. 131.{{Full citation needed|date=March 2020}} Georgia refrained from hostilities against enemy with whom Tamar the Great had signed a treaty, and the border or Christian-Muslim world was established. As the result Georgia abandoned its ambitions west of the river Araxes.