Avtandil ( ka, ავთანდილ) is a
Georgian
Georgian may refer to:
Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
masculine name of
Persia
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n origin meaning "the heart of the motherland". The name was used in the 12th-century Georgian poem ''
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' ( ka, ვეფხისტყაოსანი, tr literally "the one with the skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th or 13th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustav ...
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Shota Rustaveli
Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, c. 1160 – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of th ...
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Avtandil (designer)
Avtandil (stylized as AVTANDIL) ( ka, ავთანდილი) born Avtandil Tskvitinidze is a Georgian fashion designer based in Tbilisi.The Knight in the Panther's Skin
''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' ( ka, ვეფხისტყაოსანი, tr literally "the one with the skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th or 13th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustav ...
'', a medieval Georgian epic poem
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Avtandil Beridze
Avef Beridze ( ka, ავთანდილ ბერიძე; 11 January 1955 – 12 November 2020) was a Georgian politician. He was a chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara from 28 October 2012 to 28 November 201 ...
, Georgian politician
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Avtandil Chkuaseli, Soviet footballer
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Avtandil Demetrashvili
Avtandil Demetrashvili (born 21 December 1941 in Patara Toneti, Tetritskaro) is a former member of the Constitutional Court of Georgia. In 1967 graduated from the Law Faculty of Permi State University and undertook graduate studies at Moscow State ...
, Georgian jurist and former member of the Constitutional Court
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Avtandil Ebralidze, Georgian footballer
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Avtandil Gartskia
Avtandil Gartskia is the current Minister for Resorts and Tourism of Abkhazia.
Career
On 4 June 2014, following the May 2014 Revolution, Security Council Secretary Nugzar Ashuba and Head of the Presidential Administration Beslan Kubrava resi ...
, politician in Abkhazia
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Avtandil Gogoberidze
Avtandil Nikolozis dze Gogoberidze ( ka, ავთანდილ ნიკოლოზის ძე ღოღობერიძე, russian: Автандил Николаевич Гогоберидзе; 3 August 1922, Sukhumi – 20 November 19 ...
, Georgian/Soviet footballer
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Avtandil Gvianidze
Avtandil Gvianidze (born 23 August 1974) is a retired Georgian professional football forward, who played for several clubs in Europe.
Club career
Gvianidze played in Ukraine for FC Nyva Ternopil before returning to FC Dinamo Batumi in January ...
, Georgian footballer
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Avtandil Jorbenadze
Avtandil Jorbenadze ( ka, ავთანდილ ჯორბენაძე) is a former State Minister of Georgia.
Before entering politics, Jorbenadze worked as a doctor; in this capacity, in 1992 he was called to take up the post of deputy ...
, Georgian politician and former politician
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Avtandil Kapanadze
Avtandil Kapanadze ( ka, ავთანდილ კაპანაძე, born 1 December 1962) is a Soviet/ Georgian striker.
He has a twin brother Tariel Kapanadze who is also a football player.
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, Georgian/Soviet footballer
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Avtandil Kopaliani
Avtandil "Avto" Kopaliani (born 13 June 1982) is a Georgian rugby union footballer, currently playing in the top French professional rugby league, the Top 14, for the Aviron Bayonnais club.Avtandil Koridze
Avtandil Georgievich Koridze ( ka, ავთანდილ ქორიძე; 15 April 1935 – 11 April 1966) was a lightweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucas ...
, Georgian wrestler
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Avtandil Khurtsidze, Georgian boxer
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Avtandil Makharadze
Avtandil Ivanovich Makharadze ( ka, ავთანდილ მახარაძე; born 16 July 1943) is a Georgian actor.
He was born in Batumi. Active since the 1970s. Avtandil Makharadze started his acting career as a student at Shota Ru ...
, Georgian actor
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Avtandil Silagadze
Avtandil Silagadze ( ka, ავთანდილ სილაგაძე ) (born on February 5, 1954) is a Georgian economist and politician. He has been an Academician of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences since 2013 and was a Correspo ...
, Georgian economist
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Avtandil Tchrikishvili
Avtandili Tchrikishvili (; born 18 March 1991) is a Georgian judoka. After Tchrikishvilli won the World Championships in 2014, the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia named him the Best Georgian Sportsman of 2014. He is currently ra ...
, Georgian judoka
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Avtandil Tskitishvili
Avtandil Tskitishvili ( ka, ავთანდილ ცქიტიშვილი; 26 July 1950 – 9 December 2013) was a Georgian general who served as the Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from January 1992 to December 1993 ...
, Georgian general
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Avtandil Varsimashvili, Georgian film and theatre director
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