Leonidze was born in the village of Patardzeuli in the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti.

A branch of the Khimshiashvili family was also active in the southern Georgian provinces and embraced Islam under the Ottoman rule in the 16th century.

May 22 - The Georgian province of Guria revolts against the Russian Empire.

Manavi is a village in the Georgian province of Kakheti.

The family came from the southern Georgian province of Samtskhe, which they left for Kartli in the 15th century.

It claimed an exotic foreign lineage and first appeared in the eastern Georgian province, and later kingdom, of Kakheti in 1320.

Darejan was exiled to Akhaltsikhe, in the Ottoman-held Georgian province.

This called for delicate negotiations before serfdom was gradually phased out in the Georgian provinces from 1864 onwards.

Khvamli is located in the western portion of the historical Georgian province of Lechkhumi.

Guria, a small and poor Georgian rural province on the Black Sea, had been under the Russian hegemony since 1810.