Cherkezishvili

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Cherk'ezishvili (Georgian: ჩერქეზისშვილი) was 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 seventeenth century, and attained to a princely dingity of tavadi. Under the Russian rule they were confirmed, in 1829 and 1850, in the princely nobility as knyaz Cherkezov (Черкезовы).[1][2]

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  1. ^ Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History, p. 271. Georgetown University Press.
  2. ^ This article is based on material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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