ABSTRACT
Despite the reputation for toughness of the men of some particular districts, the Kakhians proved softer and less resolute in war than their Kartlian neighbours who followed the brilliant Simon in his guerrilla operations and, in the I 580s, rose in mass against the Turkish occupation. 'As a result of mixing with the Persians' , comments Wakhusht, himself a Kartlian, 'the Kakhians had taken them for a model in eating and drinking and in giving themselves to a soft life and an improper affectation in dressing after the Persian manner. In this way they gradually abandoned their Georgian customs and introduced those of the Persians. '2
