The House of Achba (
Abkhazian:Ачба, ka, ანჩაბაძე), is a
Georgian and
Abkhazian family, and the oldest surviving noble house originating in
Abkhazia
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.
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
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in the late 15th century, Abkhazia came under the influence of the
Ottoman Empire
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and
Islam
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, forcing several members of the family to flee to the eastern Georgian lands of
Kartli and
Kakheti. Thus, they formed two principal branches: the Abkhazian line of the princes Anchabadze and the Kartlian
Machabeli. 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, where their initial domain was located. Both of these families were later integrated into the
Imperial Russia
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princely nobility: Machabeli in 1826 and Anchabadze in 1903.
[ Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). ''Studies in Christian Caucasian History'', p. 269. Georgetown University Press.]
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
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;
*****
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;
** Mehmed Bey, married to Şadiye Hanım;
*** Behiye Nazmelek Hanım, married to Osman Pasha Zevş-Barakay, brother of
Nesrin Neşerek Kadın, wife of
Abdülaziz
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;
*** Azize Haletyar Hanım;
** Saliha
Verdicenan Kadın, married to
Abdulmejid I;
** Peremrüz Hanım;
** Embruvaz Hanım, married to Adredba Bey;
See also
*
List of Georgian princely families
References
Sources
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* {{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