Lekianoba

thumb|300px|King Erekle II fights the Lezgians by [[Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi: the battle against the Avar khan Nursal Bek ]] thumb|right|Shah Soltan Hoseyn's hukms ("orders") of 1705 on punishing the Dagestanian marauding bands in [[Kakheti]]

Lekianoba () was the name given to sporadic forays by Northeast Caucasian people into Georgia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The term is derived from Leki, by which the Georgians knew the Lezgin people, with the suffix –anoba, which designates attribution. The references to these raids appear in the epic poetry of the Avars with the help of the Kist people the names of rulers who led the most devastating attacks, Umma-Khan, Nursal-Bek, and Mallachi, are mentioned in Georgian sources.