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List Of Georgian Princely Families
This is the alphabetic list of the upper class noble houses of Georgia. They were entitled as tavadi ( ka, თავადი), roughly translated in English as "prince" and in Russian as "knyaz", a title which was eventually conferred upon most of these families under the Imperial Russian rule (1801–1917). __NOTOC__ A *Abamelik * * * Agiashvili * Akhvlediani *Amatuni *Amilakhvari * Amirejibi *Anchabadze *Andronikashvili * Apakidze * Arghutashvili (Mkhargrdzeli-Argutashvili, Argutinsky-Dolgorukov) * Asatiani * Asikhmovanov (Osikhmovani) * Avalishvili B *Babadishvili * Bagrationi-Davitishvili * Bagration-Mukhraneli *Baratashvili * Bebutov (Bebutashvili) * Begtabegishvili * Bejanidze * Beriashvili C *Chavchavadze * Cherkezishvili *Chichua *Chijavadze * Chikovani *Chkheidze * Chkhotua *Cholokashvili * Charkviani D *Dadiani * Dadishkeliani * Dgebuadze * Diasamidze * Dziapshpa (Zepishvili) *Dididze *Dvali E * Emkhvari * Eristavi of Aragvi *Eristavi of Guria * Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of , and has a population of 3.7 million people. Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, home to roughly a third of the Georgian population. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established in what is now Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. In the early 4th century, ethnic Georgians officially adopted Christianity, which contributed to the spiritual and political unification of the early Georgian states. In the Middle Ages, the unified Kingdom of Georgia emerged and reached its Golden Age during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the kingdom decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalishvili
The Avalishvili ( ka, ავალიშვილი) is a Georgian noble family, which branched off the Panaskerteli-Tsitsishvili house in the 16th century. The initial appanage of the family was located in the historical area called Tori and now known as the Borjomi Gorge with its center at the village of Sadgeri. From 1545 onward, they were vassals to the princes of Samtskhe, which soon came under the influence of the Ottoman Empire and Islam. Fleeing the Islamization of the area, several members of the Avalishvili family moved into inner Georgia early in the 17th century; those who remained in their patrimonial fiefdom, became Muslim and received the title of bek. A branch in Imereti, western Georgia, soon went into decline and their status was downgraded to that of petty nobility. The refugees to the eastern Georgian lands – Kartli and Kakheti – were enfeoffed with several estates and were reconfirmed, in 1826 and 1850, as princes of the Russian Empire. ქიქოძ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chkheidze
Chkheidze ( ka, ჩხეიძე, russian: Чхеи́дзе) is a Georgian family name which is – apart from the capital Tbilisi – most frequently to be found in the western Adjara, Guria and Imereti and the eastern Kvemo Kartli and Kakheti regions of Georgia. Most ''Chkheidzes'' live in the Tbilisi (1,026), Khoni (260), Kutaisi (206), Zestafoni (183), Batumi (118), Baghdati (107) and Rustavi (89) districts. Chkheidze were dukes of Duchy of Racha. Notable members * Alexandre Chkheidze (1878–1940), Polish-Georgian military officer *Giorgi Chkheidze (born 1997), Georgian weightlifter *Goga Chkheidze (born 1996), Georgian weightlifter *Irakli Chkheidze (born 1999), Georgian weightlifter *Konstantin Chkheidze (1897–1974), Czech-Georgian-Russian writer and philosopher *Nato Chkheidze * Nikolay Chkheidze (1864–1926), Georgian politician * Nikoloz Chkheidze (born 1968), former Soviet and Georgian footballer *Nutsa Chkheidze (1881–1963), Georgian stage act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chijavadze
Chijavadze ( ka, ჩიჯავაძე) or Chizhavadze (ჩიჟავაძე) were a Georgian noble family ('' tavadi''), prominent in the western kingdom of Imereti in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Chijavadze of Imereti share origin with the Chichua, a noble family in neighboring Mingrelia. Their ancestors had settled in Kartli in the 10th century and then in Imereti in the mid-15th. The 20th-century historian Cyril Toumanoff considered them an offshoot of the medieval Kakhaberidze family of the Liparitid stock, while Simon Janashia and, following him, several other Georgian authorities, viewed them as the continuation of the noble clan ('' aznauri'') Sadzvereli (საზვერელი) known from the medieval Georgian chronicles to have helped George II of Abkhazia to seize his rebellious son, Constantine, in the 920s. Janashia corroborated his conclusion by the fact that “Sadzvereli”, probably originally a territorial epithet, later appeared as a male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chichua
The House of Chichua (Georgian: ჩიჩუა hichua was a Georgian family of nobles, commanders, and princes in Samegrelo (Mingrelia) or Odishi. Historians have different view points about who were the ancestors of Chichua. Some sources state that the family is descended from the House of Chikovani, some state that the family is descended from a man named Chija and hence the surname Chichua, and more precise and factual sources say that they are descended from House of Kakhaberidze, while sharing the same roots as the House of Chijavadze. Possessions The House of Chichua was a prominent noble house in the Mingrelian nobility. Historical sources about the early ancestors of this family first appear in the first half of the 17th century. During the rule of prince Levan II Dadiani (1611-1657) the first member of House of Chichua appeared by the name of Ramaz Chichua and during this time he was the head of his house. Princedom of House of Chichua appears from the beginning of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherkezishvili
Cherkezishvili ( ka, ჩერქეზიშვილი) is a Georgian noble family, descended from the Circassian chieftains of Great Kabarda, whence the surname, literally meaning "children/descendants of a Circassian" in Georgian. They settled in Kakheti (eastern Georgia) in the 17th century, and attained to a princely dignity of tavadi. Under the Russian rule they were confirmed, in 1829 and 1850, in the princely nobility as knyaz Cherkezov (Черкезовы). History The traditional genealogical accounts such as that of Prince Ioann of Georgia at the beginning of the 19th century had it that the Cherkezishvili descended from a Circassian chieftain who had arrived in Georgia during the reign of Queen Tamar (r. 1184–1213). In fact, the ancestor of the family, the Kabardian nobleman Alejuko known to the Georgians as Aladag, settled down in the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kakheti in the 17th century. With the adoption of Christianity by Aladag and his scions, the family was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavchavadze
The House of Chavchavadze ( ka, ჭავჭავაძე) is a Georgian noble family, formerly a princely one (tavadi), later incorporated into the Russian nobility, also with the title of Prince. History The family is first attested in the 15th century, during the reign of Alexander I of Georgia. By the time of Leon of Kakheti they appear in the province of Kakheti (1529, according to Prince Ioann of Georgia), where they produced two lines: one in Telavi and Tsinandali; another in Qvareli and Shildi. Both these lines were elevated to a princely dignity under the kings Erekle I (1680s) and Constantine II (1726), respectively. The Chavchavadze family, with its head Prince Garsevan, came to much prominence under the king Erekle II later in the 18th century, and continued to play an important role in Georgia during the Imperial Russian rule. They were confirmed in their rank by the Tsar’s decrees of 1825, 1828, 1829, and 1850. On 4 July 1853, a small party under Ghazi Muha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beriashvili
Beriashvili ( ka, ბერიაშვილი) is a Georgian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ilia Beriashvili (born 1998), Georgian footballer *Zarbeg Beriashvili Zarbeg Beriashvili (10 September 1939 – 22 April 2020) was a Georgian wrestler. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Begtabegishvili
Begtabegishvili ( ka, ბეგთაბეგიშვილი), Begtabegov or Bektabekov ( ka, ბეგთაბეგოვი, russian: Бегтабеговы, Бектабековы) was a Georgian noble family of Armenian origin. The ancestors of the family fled the Muslim conquest of Armenia and moved to Georgia in the seventeenth century. Bagrationi, Ioane (1768-1830)Begtabegovi (Princes of Kartli) ''The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses''. Retrieved on December 15, 2007. They were originally known as Shanshean-Martirozashvili (შანშეიან-მარტიროზაშვილი), and possibly also as T’aniashvili (თანიაშვილი). The king Teimuraz I elevated the family to a princely dignity (tavadi), reportedly in 1633, and granted its head the hereditary office of ''mdivan-begi'', i.e., royal secretary, whence the dynastic name adopted by the family. The early 17th-century head of the house, Begtabeg, was a notable copyis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bebutov
Bebutov ( hy, Բեհբության, ''Behbutyan'' ka, ბებუთოვი, ''bebutovi'', russian: Бебутовы, ''Bebutovy'') or Bebutashvili ( ka, ბებუთაშვილი, ''bebutashvili'') was a Georgian and Russian noble family of Armenian ethnicity which played an important role in the economical and social life of the city of Tiflis (Tbilisi) throughout the 17th and 18th century, and later served in the military of the Russian Empire in the 19th century. The family is known from the early 17th century when they migrated from Armenia to Georgia, and settled down in Tiflis. By the mid-17th century, they had emerged as one of the wealthiest mercantile families in the kingdom of Kartli. In the 18th century, they served as ethnarchs of the Armenians of Tbilisi (with the title of ''melik-mamasakhlisi''), and later also as Grand Masters of the Hunt (''mishkarbash'') at the Georgian court. In 1783, King Heraclius II of Georgia elevated the family to the title of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baratashvili
Baratashvili ( ka, ბარათაშვილი) is a Georgian noble family, appearing at the end of the 15th century as a continuation of the Kachibadze (ქაჩიბაძე), which were possibly related to the Liparitids-Orbeli. The surname "Baratashvili", literally “children/descendants of Barata”, derives from the 15th-century nobleman Barata “the Great” Kachibadze. The Kachibadze are first attested in the early 14th century inscription from the Pitareti monastery and, according to the Georgian scholar Simon Janashia, originated in Abkhazia. Early in the 16th century, the Baratashvili estates, known as Sabaratiano, included hundreds of villages with 2,500-3,000 peasant households and some 250-300 noble vassals in Lower Kartli in the south of Georgia. They had castles at Samshvilde, Dmanisi, Darbaschala, Tbisi and Enageti; and familial abbeys at Pitareti, Gudarekhi, Dmanisi, and Kedi. They were listed among the top five great nobles, tavadi, of the Kingdom o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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