Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan mutuwar David III a shekara ta 1001, sarkin daular Byzantine Basil II ya gaji mulkinsa, an tsara wadannan lardunan a cikin taken Iberia tare da babban birnin a Theodosiopolis, wanda ya tilasta magajin Georgian Bagratid mai mulki Bagrat III ya amince da sabon sake fasalin. Dan Bagrat, George I, duk da haka, ya gaji da'awar da aka daɗe don maye gurbin Dauda. Matashi kuma mai buri, George ya kaddamar da yakin neman sake dawo da Kuropalates<unk> ga Georgia kuma ya mallaki Tao a 1015<unk>1016. Byzantines a wancan lokacin suna cikin yaƙi da daular Bulgaria, suna iyakance ayyukansu zuwa yamma. Amma da zarar an ci Bulgaria
, Basil II ya jagoranci sojojinsa a kan Georgia (1021). Yaƙi mai banƙyama ya ɗauki shekaru biyu, kuma ya ƙare da nasarar Byzantine mai yanke hukunci, wanda ya tilasta George ya yarda da yarjejeniyar zaman lafiya, wanda dole ne ya yi watsi da da'awarsa ga Tao.