Bagration-Davitashvili ( ka, ბაგრატიონ-დავითაშვილი) 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 ...

noble family, a cadet branch of the

Kakheti Kakheti ( ka, კახეთი ''K’akheti''; ) is a region (mkhare) formed in the 1990s in eastern Georgia from the historical province of Kakheti and the small, mountainous province of Tusheti. Telavi is its capital. The region comprises eigh ...

an line of the Bagrationi royal dynasty. In turn, Kakhetian line descends from George VIII, last king of the united Georgian kingdom and first king of Kakheti. Their ancestry traces back to the Kakhetian prince Davit whose father, Demetre, was blinded by his brother George II the Wicked after the latter killed his reigning father

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, and usurped the crown in 1511. The Bagration-Davitashvili fled Kakheti to the neighboring Georgian kingdom of

Kartli Kartli ( ka, ქართლი ) is a historical region in central-to-eastern Georgia traversed by the river Mtkvari (Kura), on which Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is situated. Known to the Classical authors as Iberia, Kartli played a crucial role ...

where they persisted as a princely family. After the annexation of Georgia by

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, the family, in the person of Solomon Bagration-Davitashvili, was confirmed in princely dignity (russian: Багратионы-Давыдовы, Bagration-Davidov or Bagration-Davidoff) on December 21, 1849.

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Branches of the Bagrationi dynasty Noble families of Georgia (country) Russian noble families Georgian-language surnames {{Georgia-noble-stub