Dagestan. However, the troops of the Khan managed to overtake Chakh and his detachment. The rebellious king, refusing to surrender to the Mongols, along with his companions, stabbed and killed themselves on horseback and then threw themselves off a cliff near the Arzhiy-Akhk river, eastern Chechnya. Chakh was succeeded by his son Khasi II, the father of Khour II, who continued the fight against the Mongols. Rebellion of the Georgian monarch David VIII During the reign of Gazan Khan, the Georgian king David VIII rebelled against the Ilkhanate. David, along with his grandees moved to Imereti where they fortified themselves in the fortress Modinakhe. Then, with the help of the Durdzuks, Pkhovians and Mtiulets, bringing together an army of 15,000, David VIII managed to oust the Mongols from the Darial Gorge, afterwhich he withdrew to the fortress Tsiskari. In response, Gazan Khan sent an army to Georgia, which ravaged the regions Kartli and Tianeti, afterwhich it laid siege to the Kazbegi fortress. However, being unable to capture it, the Mongols withdrew to Tskhavati. David then pursued the Mongols and defeated the latter, afterwhich he attacked a Mongol army near Tbilisi, also defeating them, forcing them to leave the region. Khasi's rebellion In 1318, exactly 40 years after the last major uprising, Khasi II (who, unlike his ancestors, was a Muslim), the son of Chakh and the father of Khour II, launched another rebellion in the mountains of Durdzuketi. The uprising was supported by the free Durdzuk communities, although they did no longer recognize the royal ruler over themselves. The uprising lasted for a year, until 1319, but ultimately failed. Even though this rebellion is a rather legendary one, Amin Anguni suggests that the uprising of Khasi II was the reason why Khan Özbeg set up his headquarters on the Sunzha River. According to other legends however, since Khasi II was a Muslim, he cooporated with the Golden Horde, unlike his ancestors. Other minor uprisings and clashes Only a year after the death of Khour I, 1253, as a result of Mongol taxation, resistance among several nations in the North Caucasus, among them, the Durdzuks, Alans, Lezgins and Circassians broke out. In 1254, because of the strong resistance, 1/5th of the Khans army (40,000) was stationed in mountain gorges across the North Caucasus. In 1277, as a result of harsh taxes as well as the brutal policy of the Mongols towards