Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan wannan, Byzantines a wancan lokacin suna cikin yaƙi da daular Bulgaria, suna iyakance ayyukansu zuwa yamma. Amma da zaran
Bulgaria ta ci nasara, kuma Al-Hakim ba ya da rai, Basil ya jagoranci sojojinsa a kan Georgia (1021). Yaƙi mai banƙyama ya ɗauki shekaru biyu, kuma ya ƙare da nasarar Byzantine mai yanke hukunci, yana tilasta Giorgi ya yarda da yarjejeniyar zaman lafiya, wanda ba wai kawai ya yi watsi da da'awarsa ga Tao ba, amma ya ba da dama daga cikin mallakarsa na kudu maso yamma zuwa Basil, kuma ya ba da ɗansa mai shekaru uku, Bagrat, a matsayin ɗan garkuwa. Bayan yarjejeniyar zaman lafiya, Katolika-Patriarch Melchizedek I na Georgia ya ziyarci Constantinople, wanda ya sami taimakon kuɗi na Byzantine don gina "Svetitskhoveli" (a zahiri, "Ginshiƙin Rayuwa"), babban babban cocin Orthodox a gabashin garin Mtskheta na Georgia.