The Hundred Thousand Martyrs are saints of the Georgian Orthodox Church, who were put to death, according to the 14th-century anonymous Georgian Chronicle of a Hundred Years, for not renouncing Christianity by the Khwarazmian sultan Jalal al-Din upon his capture of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1226. The source claims the number of those killed were 100,000. The Georgian church commemorates them on 13 November.
Christian feast day: The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi (Georgian Orthodox Church)
On November 13, in the year 0, Christian feast day: The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi (Georgian Orthodox Church). This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of November 13, a notable event in this corner of history.
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