The highlanders of Svaneti entrenched themselves in their difficultly accessible villages fortified with chains of defensive towers and were only passively involved in the turmoil that filled Georgia, leading to the relative lack of written records about Svaneti from that period.
Gorštaci iz Svanetije ukopali su se u svoja teško pristupačna mjesta s obrambenim kulama, i samo su pasivno sudjelovali u metežu koji je ispunio Gruziju, do dovodi do relativnog nedostatka pisanih zapisa o Svanetiji iz tog vremena.