The final stand of three hundred highlanders from the Aragvi valley, an epic encounter that happened on 11 September 1795, when Georgia was invaded by Persia.
If you haven’t seen the movie 300, the fictionalised retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, where three hundred Spartans make a final stand against an ambitious Persian invasion, you’ve probably seen the countless “This is Sparta” memes or perhaps photos of jacked men in red cloaks. The Greek stand at Thermopylae is so iconic that, even though it happened more than 2,500 years ago, we still talk about it.
