The House of Achba (Ачба, ანჩაბაძე), is a Georgians and Abkhazians family, and the oldest surviving noble house originating in Abkhazia.
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 in the late 15th century, Abkhazia came under the influence of the
Ottoman Empire and
Islam, 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.
[ J. Gvasalia, მაჩაბლები ( Machablebi). In: ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია ( Encyclopedia Georgiana), Vol. 6, page 509. Tbilisi, 1983.] Both of these families were later integrated into the
knyaz: Machabeli in 1826 and Anchabadze in 1903.
[Cyril Toumanoff (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History, p. 269. Georgetown University Press.]
Genealogy
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Kaytuk Giorgi Bey, married to Yelizaveta Hanım;
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Islam Musa Bey, married to Ayşe Hanım;
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Ahmed Rasim Pasha, married firstly to Fatma Neşedil Hanım, an Abkhazian, married secondly to Emine Vuslat Hanım;
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Ahmed Refik Bey, married to Fatıma Hanım;
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Mihri Hanım, married to Müşfik Selami Bey;
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Enise Hanım, married to Salih Bey Asaf;
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Refik Hanım;
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Ahmed Süheyil Bey;
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Ahmed Melih Bey;
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Nezih Bey, married to Alexandra Sibylle Armgard;
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Ahmed Selman Bey;
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Ahmed Bey, married to Patıma Hanım Eşba;
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Ahmed Sami Pasha, married to Fatıma Hanım Mamleeva, daughter of Ismail Bey Mamleeva;
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Şükrü Bey, married firstly to Rabia Mümtaz Hanım, married secondly to Neşedil Hanım;
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Ahmed Celal Bey, married firstly to Milnigar Hanım, married secondly to Louise Simon;
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Adalet Pevizfelek Hanım;
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Ayşe Mahizer Hanım;
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Fatma Pesend Hanım married to Abdul Hamid II;
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Ömer Pasha, married to Ayşe Kemalifer Hanım, second daughter of Mahmud Bey Dziapş-Ipa, and sister of Dürrünev Kadın;
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Mehmed Refik Bey, married to Emine Maheşref Hanım, daughter of Osman Bey Eymhaa and Hesan Hanım Çaabalurhva;
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Ahmed Bey, married to Esmehan Hanım Geçba, daughter of Eyüb Bey Geçba and Ayşe Gülten Hanım;
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Rifat Kemaleddin Bey;
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Emine Nurbanu Hidayet Hanım, married to Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin, son of Abdul Hamid II;
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Leyla Achba;
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Feride Hanım, married to Hasan Bey Eymhaa;
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Numan Bey;
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Saide Hanım, married to Salih Bey;
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Hürrem Hanım, married to Arif Bey Çaçba;
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Esma Süreyya Cavidan Hanım, married to Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin;
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Mehmed Bey, married to Şadiye Hanım;
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Behiye Nazmelek Hanım, married to Osman Pasha Zevş-Barakay, brother of Nesrin Neşerek Kadın, wife of Abdülaziz;
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Azize Haletyar Hanım;
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Saliha Verdicenan Kadın, married to Abdulmejid I;
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Peremrüz Hanım;
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Embruvaz Hanım, married to Adredba Bey;
See also
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List of Georgian princely families
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