Abashidze (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Abashidze family
Coat of arms of the Abashidze-Gorlenko family

Abashidze ( Georgian აბაშიძე ) is a Georgian noble family and a former royal house . It appeared for the first time in the 15th century and gained importance in the western Georgian kingdom of Imereti at the end of the 17th century . Lines also developed in the eastern Georgian kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartlien, as well as in the southwestern region of Adjara , which was occupied by the Ottomans . After Georgia was annexed to Russia , the family was confirmed as Knes Abashidze ( Russian Абашидзе ) by a tsar's decree of 1825 .

history

The Abschidse family may have emerged from the medieval Georgian noble house Liparitid-Orbeliani . According to family legend, however, she is said to be descended from an Abyssinian officer named Abaschi, who accompanied Marwan ibn Muhammad's Arab army to Georgia in the 8th century . Abashi stayed in Georgia and was ennobled when he saved the Georgian Crown Prince from a wolf .

The first records of the Abashidze come from the end of the 15th century. In the 1540s, the family already owned a sizeable fiefdom in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Imereti, which was called Saabashidseo ( Georgian „ ," [the land] of the Abashidze ").

The family reached the height of their power around 1800 when they owned 78 villages, several palaces, castles, churches and monasteries, and 1,500 serf households. Prince Georg-Malakia Abashidze was not only the most powerful vassal of the Imeretic crown, but also acted as a kingmaker and was de facto king himself from 1702 to 1707 . A line was formed in Eastern Georgia when Erekle II , King of Kartli and Kakheti, granted his father-in-law Prince Saal Abashidze and his male descendants goods in Kakheti in 1774. A line also established itself in Kartlien in the person of Vachuschti Abashidze . A little earlier in the 18th century a representative of the Imeretic line defected to the Ottoman government and moved to Batumi , where his descendants held the office of Sanjakbey .

The annexation of Imereti to Russia in 1810 ended the principality of Saabashidseo. From then on, the family was put on an equal footing with other aristocratic families of the Russian Empire , but on September 20, 1825, it was again recognized as princely. On July 29, 1876, Prince Simon Abashidze (1837-1891) was granted the right to accept the name and coat of arms of his father-in-law, the late Ukrainian nobleman Semena Davydowitscha Gorlenko, for himself and his male descendants (Abashidze-Gorlenko, Russian: Абакидзе-Горленен ) , however, he died without a male heir.

The family survived into the 21st century, producing a number of distinguished politicians, writers, and other public figures.

See also

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Web links

Commons : Abashidze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioane Bagrationi : შემოკლებით აღწერა საქართველოსა შინა მცხოვრებთა თავადთა და აზნაურთა გვარებისა . (Georgian).
  2. ↑ Абашидзе . In: Brockhaus-Efron . 1906 (Russian, online at Wikisource ).