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The House of Achba ( Abkhazian:Ачба, ka, ანჩაბაძე), is a Georgian and Abkhazian family, and the oldest surviving noble house originating in
The Anchabadze family is supposed to have its roots in the early medieval ruling dynasty of Abasgia. According to a traditional account, after the break-up of the
Abkhazia
Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a List of states with limited recognition, partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It cover ...
.
History
The Anchabadze family is supposed to have its roots in the early medieval ruling dynasty of Abasgia. According to a traditional account, after the break-up of the Kingdom of Georgia
The Kingdom of Georgia (), also known as the Georgian Empire, was a Middle Ages, medieval Eurasian monarchy that was founded in Anno Domini, AD. It reached Georgian Golden Age, its Golden Age of political and economic strength during the reign ...
in the late 15th century, Abkhazia came under the influence of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...
and Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
, forcing several members of the family to flee to the eastern Georgian lands 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 rol ...
and Kakheti
Kakheti (; ) is a region of Georgia. Telavi is its administrative center. The region comprises eight administrative districts: Telavi, Gurjaani, Qvareli, Sagarejo, Dedoplistsqaro, Signagi, Lagodekhi and Akhmeta.
Kakhetians speak the ...
. Thus, they formed two principal branches: the Abkhazian line of the princes Anchabadze and the Kartlian Machabeli
The House of 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 Georg ...
. However, there is another version, according to which the Machabeli was an offshoot of the Tavkhelidze family, who adopted their dynastic name after the village of on the Great Liakhvi River
The Great Liakhvi ( ''Didi Liakhvi'' , , ''Styr Lewakhi'') is a river in central Georgia, which rises on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in the de facto independent region of South Ossetia and flows into the Kura (Mt ...
, where their initial domain was located. Both of these families were later integrated into the Imperial Russia
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n princely nobility: Machabeli in 1826 and Anchabadze in 1903. Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). ''Studies in Christian Caucasian History'', p. 269. Georgetown University Press
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Genealogy
* Kaytuk Giorgi Bey, married to Yelizaveta Hanım; ** Islam Musa Bey, married to Ayşe Hanım; *** Ahmed Rasim Pasha, married firstly to Fatma Neşedil Hanım, an Abkhazian, married secondly to Emine Vuslat Hanım; **** Ahmed Refik Bey, married to Fatıma Hanım; **** Mihri Hanım, married to Müşfik Selami Bey; **** Enise Hanım, married to Salih Bey Asaf; *****Hale Asaf
Hale Asaf, originally Hale Salih (1905, Istanbul - 31 May 1938, Paris) was a Turkish painter of Georgians, Georgian, Abkhazians, Abkhazan and Circassians, Circassian ancestry. She was the niece of Turkey's first female artist, Mihri Müşfik Hanı ...
;
**** Refik Hanım;
**** Ahmed Süheyil Bey;
***** Emel Nazan Hanım;
**** Ahmed Melih Bey;
***** Nezih Bey, married to Alexandra Sibylle Armgard;
**** Ahmed Selman Bey;
** Ahmed Bey, married to Patıma Hanım Eşba;
*** Ahmed Sami Pasha, married to Fatıma Hanım Mamleeva, daughter of Ismail Bey Mamleeva;
**** Şükrü Bey, married firstly to Rabia Mümtaz Hanım, married secondly to Neşedil Hanım;
***** Ahmed Celal Bey, married firstly to Milnigar Hanım, married secondly to Louise Simon;
***** Adalet Pevizfelek Hanım;
**** Ayşe Mahizer Hanım;
**** Fatma Pesend Hanım married to Abdul Hamid II
Abdulhamid II or Abdul Hamid II (; ; 21 September 184210 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a Decline and modernizati ...
;
*** Ömer Pasha, married to Ayşe Kemalifer Hanım, second daughter of Mahmud Bey Dziapş-Ipa, and sister of Dürrünev Kadın;
**** Mehmed Refik Bey, married to Emine Maheşref Hanım, daughter of Osman Bey Eymhaa and Hesan Hanım Çaabalurhva;
***** Ahmed Bey, married to Esmehan Hanım Geçba, daughter of Eyüb Bey Geçba and Ayşe Gülten Hanım;
***** Rifat Kemaleddin Bey;
***** Emine Nurbanu Hidayet Hanım, married to Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin, son of Abdul Hamid II
Abdulhamid II or Abdul Hamid II (; ; 21 September 184210 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a Decline and modernizati ...
;
***** Leyla Gülefşan Hanım;
***** Feride Hanım, married to Hasan Bey Eymhaa;
**** Numan Bey;
**** Saide Hanım, married to Salih Bey;
**** Hürrem Hanım, married to Arif Bey Çaçba;
**** Esma Süreyya Cavidan Hanım, married to Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin
Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin Efendi (; ; 11 October 1857 – 1 February 1916) was an Ottoman prince, the eldest son of Sultan Abdülaziz and his first consort Dürrinev Kadın.
Early life and education
Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin was born on 29 Septe ...
;
** Mehmed Bey, married to Şadiye Hanım;
*** Behiye Nazmelek Hanım, married to Osman Pasha Zevş-Barakay, brother of Nesrin Neşerek Kadın, wife of Abdülaziz
Abdulaziz (; ; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was 1876 Ottoman coup d'état, overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother ...
;
*** Azize Haletyar Hanım;
** Saliha Verdicenan Kadın
Verdicenan Kadın (; "''Heart's decision''" or "''Heart's jury''"; born Saliha Achba; 18259 December 1889) was a consort of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire.
Early life
Verdicenan Kadın was born in 1825 in Sukhum. Her original name ...
, married to Abdulmejid I ʻAbd al-Majīd (ALA-LC romanization of , ), also spelled as Abd ul Majid, Abd ul-Majid, Abd ol Majid, Abd ol-Majid, and Abdolmajid, is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Maj ...
;
** Peremrüz Hanım;
** Embruvaz Hanım, married to Adredba Bey;
See also
*List of Georgian princely families
This is the alphabetic list of the upper class noble houses of Georgia. They were entitled as tavadi ( ka, თავადი), roughly translated in English as "prince" and in Russian as "knyaz", a title which was eventually conferred upon most of ...
References
Sources
* * * {{cite book, first=Mahinur, last=Tuna, title=İlk Türk kadın ressam: Mihri Rasim (Müşfik) Açba : 1886 İstanbul-1954 New-York, year=2007, publisher=As Yayın, isbn=978-9-750-17250-2 Noble families of Georgia (country) Abkhazian nobility Russian noble families