# Machabeli

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{{Short description|Georgian noble house}}
{{About|the Georgian princely house|other uses|Matchabelli (disambiguation){{!}}Matchabelli}}
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| country = [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(country))
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The '''House of Machabeli''' ([sing.](/source/Grammatical_number) {{lang-ka|მაჩაბელი}}, [pl.](/source/plural) მაჩაბლები, ''Machablebi''; {{langx|ru|Мачабелов|Machabelov}}<ref>Dolgorukov (1856)</ref>) was a [Georgian](/source/Georgia_(country)) princely house (''[tavadi](/source/tavadi)'') which held a large fiefdom (''satavado'') in the province of [Inner Kartli](/source/Inner_Kartli) (central Georgia) called [Samachablo](/source/Samachablo) after their family name.

== History ==
[[File:Tiri Monastery, Georgia 06.jpg|thumb|left|An inscription from the [Tiri monastery](/source/Tiri_monastery) mentioning Machabel Tavkhelidze, a purported forefather of the family.]]
The origin of the family is not clear. According to a traditional account, they descended from one of the princes of the Abkhaz-Georgian feudal clan of [Anchabadze](/source/Anchabadze) who had fled the disorders in [Abkhazia](/source/Abkhazia). Another version holds it that the Machabeli were an offshoot of the [Tavkhelidze](/source/Tavkhelidze) family who adopted their dynastic name after the village of {{Ill|Achabeti|ka|აჩაბეთი}} on the [Great Liakhvi River](/source/Great_Liakhvi_River) where their initial domain was located. Beginning with the 15th century, the Machabeli grew in prominence and held various important posts at the court of the Georgian kings of [Kartli](/source/Kartli).<ref>{{in lang|ka}} J. Gvasalia, მაჩაბლები (''Machablebi''). In: ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია (''Encyclopedia Georgiana''), Vol. 6, page 509. Tbilisi, 1983.</ref> Their fiefdom, Samachablo, covered a significant portion of what is now breakaway region of the so called "[South Ossetia](/source/South_Ossetia)", and enjoyed a degree of autonomy within the Kingdom of [Kartli](/source/Kartli) from c. 1470 to 1800 when Georgia was annexed to [Imperial Russia](/source/Imperial_Russia).<ref>[http://www.geogen.ge/indexen.php?id_menu=12&id_menu_up=2&lang=en&id_let=46&abc=1 Origin of the Princes: Machabeli] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927093010/http://www.geogen.ge/indexen.php?id_menu=12&id_menu_up=2&lang=en&id_let=46&abc=1 |date=2007-09-27 }}. Georgian Genealogy. Retrieved on April 1, 2007.</ref> The Machabeli house was confirmed in princely dignity by the Russian [Tsar](/source/Emperor_of_Russia) in 1850.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [http://www.rulex.ru/01130341.htm Мачабели]. Russian Biographic Lexicon. Retrieved on April 1, 2007.</ref>

== See also ==

*[Ivane Machabeli](/source/Ivane_Machabeli), Georgian writer, journalist and translator
*[Georges V. Matchabelli](/source/Georges_V._Matchabelli), Georgian nobleman and diplomat
*[Tamarasheni](/source/Tamarasheni)
*[Abkhazi](/source/Abkhazi)

== References ==
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*{{in lang|ru}} Хаханов А. С. ([Alexander Khakhanov](/source/Alexander_Khakhanov)), [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929120547/http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Gruz/XVIII/1740-1760/Dvor_Akty/14.TIF князья Мачабели]. In: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070504094009/http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Gruz/XVIII/1740-1760/Dvor_Akty/index.htm Грузинские дворянские акты и родословные росписи]. [М.](/source/Moscow) 1893.
*{{in lang|ru}} [Pyotr Dolgorukov](/source/Pyotr_Dolgorukov_(historian)). ''[Russian genealogy book](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0)''. – Saint Petersburg: Типография Э. Веймара, 1856. – Vol. 3. – p. 480.

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