Odishi
Odishi
ოდიში | |
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Historical region | |
 A map of Odishi, originally by Archangelo Lamberti, 1654. | |
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Samegrelo (Mingrelia) |
Odishi (
Geography
Like most historical regions of Georgia, Odishi had fluctuating borders.
Etymology
The etymology of Odishi is not clear. According to
Prince Vakhushti, who included a detailed geographical account of the region in his Description of the Kingdom of Georgia, suggested a folk etymology of Odishi as meaning "once [odeshi] this land was ours."[3] A modern hypothesis relates Odishi to a pagan deity from the Mingrelian folklore, named Odi.[1] The name of Odishi survives in those of a plateau in western Georgia, a village in the Zugdidi Municipality
, and a broadcasting company based in Zugdidi.
History
Odishi first appears in the Samegrelo, although referenced in much earlier records, did not enter the common usage until after the imposition of the Imperial Russian hegemony in 1804.[1] The Mingrelian signatory to the 1804 treaty with Russia, Prince Grigol Dadiani, referred to himself as the "lawful Lord of Odishi, Lechkhumi, Svaneti, Abkhazia, and all the lands anciently belonging to the ancestors of mine."[9]
References
- ^ a b c Beradze, Tamaz (1984). "ოდიში [Odishi]". ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ტ. 7 [Georgian Soviet Encyclopaedia, Vol. 7] (in Georgian). Tbilisi: Metsniereba. p. 502.
- ^ Javakhishvili, Ivane (1983). ქართველი ერის ისტორია, ტ. 2 [History of the Georgian Nation, Vol. 2] (in Georgian). Tbilisi: Metsniereba. p. 49.
- ^ Wakhoucht, Tsarévitch (1842). Brosset, Marie-Félicité (ed.). ღეოღრაჶიული აღწერა საქართველოჲსა. Description géographique de la Géorgie[Geographic description of Georgia] (in Georgian and French). S.-Pétersbourg: A la typographie de l'Academie Impériale des Sciences. pp. 392–395.
- ^ Klimov, Georgy (1998). Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. New York, Berlin. p. 1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Toumanoff, Cyril (1949–51). "The Fifteenth-Century Bagratids and the Institution of Collegial Sovereignty in Georgia". Traditio. 7: 187.
- ^ Lamberti, Archangelo (1654). Relatione della Colchide hoggi detta Mengrellia [Description of Colchis, today called Mingrelia] (in Italian). Napoli. pp. 15–17.
- Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, Tome vingt-unieme [Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts, Vol. 21] (in French). Geneve. pp. 932–933.
- ^ Klaproth, Julius von (1814). Travels in the Caucasus and Georgia: performed in the years 1806 and 1808, by command of the Russian government. London: H. Colburn. p. 401.
- ^ "№ 21.382.a. — Высочайше утвержденные пункты Владетельнаго Князя Мингрелии Григория Дадиана [No. 21.382.a. — Supremely confirmed articles for the Presiding Prince of Mingrelia Grigory Dadian]". Полное собрание законов Российской империи, Том XXVIII: 1804–1805 [Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire, Vol. 28: 1804–1805] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Typography of the Second Department of His Imperial Majesty's Chancellery. 1830.
