Samachablo ( ka, სამაჩაბლო) is a Georgian historical district in
Shida Kartli
Shida Kartli ( ka, შიდა ქართლი, , ; "Inner Kartli") is a landlocked administrative region (''Mkhare'') in eastern Georgia. It comprises a central part of the historical-geographic province of Shida Kartli. With an area of , S ...
,
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
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, which lies entirely within the disputed
South Ossetia Region. The name ''Samachablo'' (literally, "of Machabeli") derives from the Georgian aristocratic family of
Machabeli
Machabeli ( sing. ka, მაჩაბელი; pl. მაჩაბლები, ''Machablebi'') was a Georgian princely house (''tavadi'') which held a large fiefdom (''satavado'') in the province of Inner Kartli (central Georgia) called Sa ...
who once held possession of the area. With the rise of
Georgian-Ossetian interethnic tensions in the late 1980s, the name was revived by the Georgians and has sometimes been semi-officially used since then.
[Potier, Tim (2001), ''Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia: A Legal Appraisal'', p. 139. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, .]
This territory is referred to as
Tskhinvali
Tskhinvali ( ka, ცხინვალი ) or Tskhinval ( os, Цхинвал, Чъреба, Tskhinval, Chreba, ; rus, Цхинва́л(и), r=Tskhinvál(i), ) is the capital of the disputed ''de facto'' independent Republic of South Ossetia, in ...
region by Georgian authorities after the name of its only city.
See also
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Georges V. Matchabelli
Prince Georges Vasili Matchabelli ( ka, გიორგი მაჩაბელი) (July 23, 1885 – March 31, 1935) was a Georgia (country), Georgian perfumer. A nobleman and diplomat, he emigrated to the United States after the 1921 Red Army ...
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Ivane Machabeli
References
Former provinces of Georgia (country)
Historical regions of Georgia (country)
Geography of South Ossetia
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