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Otia (given Name)
Otia () is a masculine Georgian given name A Georgian name consists of a given name and a surname used by ethnic Georgians. Given names According to the Public Service Hall the most common Georgian names are: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgian Given Name
A Georgian name consists of a given name and a surname used by ethnic Georgians. Given names According to the Public Service Hall the most common Georgian names are: Public Service Hall Males: Giorgi, Davit, , Levan, Aleksandre, , , |
Otia Dadiani
Otia Dadiani ( ka, ოტია დადიანი; died 1757), of the House of Dadiani, was Prince of Mingrelia from 1728 until his death. Like his predecessors, Otia Dadiani was embroiled in a series of civil wars that plagued western Georgia. He spent years fighting King Alexander V of Imereti with varying fortune. In the last years of his rule, Otia reconciled and corroborated with the Imeretian monarchy. Accession Otia was the eldest son of Bezhan Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia, by his wife Tamar Gelovani. In 1728, Otia accompanied Bezhan to a rendezvous with an Ottoman representative at Geguti in Imereti, where the Dadiani fell into a trap set up by the Imeretian nobleman Zurab Abashidze. Bezhan was killed by the Turkish dignitary's entourage, but Otia escaped and succeeded his father as Prince of Mingrelia, but not without a conflict with his younger brother Katso whom he had captured and sent for imprisonment in Racha, at the castle of Kvara. Once in power, Otia defied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otia Ioseliani
Otia Ioseliani ( ka, ოტია იოსელიანი) (June 16, 1930 – July 14, 2011) was a Georgian prose writer and dramatist, whose plays have been successfully staged in Georgia as well as in other countries of the former Soviet Union and East Germany.Rayfield, Donald (1994), '' The Literature of Georgia: A History'', p. 322. Clarendon Press, . Biography Otia Ioseliani was born in the village of Gvishtibi, Tsqaltubo District, in then-Soviet Georgia. He began writing in the mid-1950s and published his first collection of stories in 1957. The nationwide recognition came with his first novel ''The Falling Stars'' (ვარსკვლავთცვენა, 1962), which, like Ioseliani's many early works, treated the theme of World War II. He then tackled in his works a great variety of themes using different artistic styles. In the 1960s and 1970s, he published popular novels such as ''Once There Was a Woman'' (იყო ერთი ქალი, 1970), ''Tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
