Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An yi barazanar mutuncin Daular Byzantine bayan da wani babban tawaye da Bardas Skleros ya jagoranci ya barke a 976. Bayan sun yi nasara a yaƙe-yaƙe, 'yan tawayen suka ci Asiya Ƙarama. A cikin gaggawa na halin da ake ciki, yariman Georgia David III na Tao ya taimaka wa Basil; bayan nasarar da aka yi a yakin Pankaleia, an ba shi lada ta hanyar mulkin rayuwa na manyan yankuna a gabashin Asiya Ƙananan. Duk da haka, kin amincewar Dauda na Basil a cikin tawayen Bardas Phokas na 987, ya haifar da rashin amincewar Constantinople ga sarakunan Georgia. Bayan da tawayen ya kasa, an tilasta wa Dauda ya naɗa Basil magajin dukiyarsa mai yawa. A cikin 1001, bayan mutuwar Dauda na Tao, Basil ya gaji Tao, Phasiane, da Speri. Wadannan lardunan an tsara su a cikin taken Iberia tare da babban birnin Theodosiopolis. Wannan ya tilasta magajin Georgian Bagratid mai mulki Bagrat III ya amince da sabon tsari. Dan Bagrat George I, duk da haka, ya gaji da'awar da aka daɗe don maye gurbin Dauda. George, wanda yake saurayi ne kuma mai buri, ya kaddamar da yakin neman sake dawo da Kuropalates zuwa Georgia kuma ya mamaye Tao a 1015<unk>1016. Ya shiga cikin kawance da Fatimid halifan Masar, al-Hakim, wanda ya tilasta Basil ya guji amsawa mai tsanani ga hare-haren George. Byzantines kuma sun shiga cikin yaƙin da ba a daina ba tare da Bulgarians ba, suna iyakance ayyukansu zuwa yamma. Da zarar an ci Bulgaria da yaƙi
a cikin 1018 kuma al-Hakim ya mutu, Basil ya jagoranci sojojinsa a kan Georgia. An shirya shirye-shirye don yaƙin neman zaɓe mafi girma a kan Masarautar Georgia, wanda ya fara da sake ƙarfafa Theodosiopolis.