Mariam (Marika) Lortkipanidze ( ka, მარიამ (მარიკა) ლორთქიფანიძე; 28 August 1922 – 8 January 2018) was a Soviet and Georgian historian, specializing in the history of
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
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.
Mariam Lortkipanidze was born in
Batumi
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on 28 August 1922. She graduated from
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...
, Department of History in 1943. Her PhD thesis was "
Emirate of Tbilisi
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" (1948). She became
doktor nauk
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in 1964 and a member of the
Georgian National Academy of Sciences
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in 1993.
Publications
Most widely held works by Mariam Lortʻkʻipʻaniże:
* ''Adrepʻeodaluri xanis kʻartʻuli saistorio mcerloba'', 1966
* ''Istorija Gruzii XI-načala XIII veka : (naučno-populjarnyj očerk)'', 1974
* ''A glimpse of Georgian history'', 1983
* ''Georgia in the XI-XII centuries'', 1987
* ''Apʻxazebi da apʻxazetʻi'', 1990
* ''Essays on Georgian history'', 1994
References
1922 births
2018 deaths
20th-century historians from Georgia (country)
Soviet women historians
Soviet historians
Rustaveli Prize winners
Members of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences
Laureates of the State Prize of Georgia (country)
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