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title="Sabediano">Sabediano</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Medieval title</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a town in Georgia, see <a href="/wiki/Bediani" title="Bediani">Bediani</a>.</div> <p><b>Bediani</b> (<a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Georgian</a>: <span title="Georgian-language text"><span lang="ka" style="font-style: normal;">ბედიანი</span></span>) was a medieval title, or a territorial epithet, of the <a href="/wiki/Dadiani" class="mw-redirect" title="Dadiani">Dadiani</a>, the ruling family of <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Mingrelia" title="Principality of Mingrelia">Mingrelia</a> in western <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Georgia</a>, derived from the canton of <a href="/wiki/Bedia_(village)" title="Bedia (village)">Bedia</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Abkhazia" title="Principality of Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a>, and in use from the end of the 12th century into the 15th. Bediani was occasionally used as a <a href="/wiki/Praenomen" title="Praenomen">praenomen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-toumanoff1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toumanoff1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The extent of the fief of Bedia is difficult to define; by the latter half of the 17th century, the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Shervashidze" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Shervashidze">Shervashidze</a> of Abkhazia had supplanted the Dadiani in that area.<sup id="cite_ref-gse8_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gse8-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-anch_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anch-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The title of Bediani should not be confused with that of Bedieli, which, although derived from the same <a href="/wiki/Toponym" class="mw-redirect" title="Toponym">toponym</a>, was the one used by the bishops seated at the <a href="/wiki/Bedia_Cathedral" title="Bedia Cathedral">Bedia Cathedral</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brosset_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brosset-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Primary_sources">Primary sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bediani_(title)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Primary sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bediani appears in the Georgian—both narrative and epigraphic—and Western European sources from the early 13th century to the latter half of the 15th century, first in the <i>Histories and Eulogies of the Sovereigns</i>, a part of the <i><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Chronicles" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian Chronicles">Georgian Chronicles</a></i>, in the list of the Georgian "dukes" (<i><a href="/wiki/Eristavi" title="Eristavi">eristavi</a></i>) under <a href="/wiki/Tamar_of_Georgia" title="Tamar of Georgia">Queen Tamar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Reign" title="Reign">r.</a> 1184–1213).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 15th century, Bediani (<i>Bedias</i>, <i>Bendian</i>) was used as a designation of the Prince of Mingrelia (e.g., <i>Bendian rex Mingreliae</i>) by the Italian visitors to the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a>—<a href="/wiki/Ludovico_da_Bologna" title="Ludovico da Bologna">Ludovico da Bologna</a> in 1460<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Giosafat_Barbaro" title="Giosafat Barbaro">Giosafat Barbaro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ambrogio_Contarini" title="Ambrogio Contarini">Ambrogio Contarini</a> in the early 1470s. Barbaro, further, reported that Bendiani of Mingrelia possessed, inter alia, two fortified cities on the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a>, called Vathi and Sauastopoli, the former identified with <a href="/wiki/Batumi" title="Batumi">Batumi</a>, then in <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Guria" title="Principality of Guria">Guria</a>, and the latter being <a href="/wiki/Sukhumi" title="Sukhumi">Sukhumi</a>, now in Abkhazia.<sup id="cite_ref-javax1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-javax1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-anch_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anch-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sabediano">Sabediano</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bediani_(title)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sabediano"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early in the 20th century, the Georgian historian <a href="/wiki/Ivane_Javakhishvili" title="Ivane Javakhishvili">Ivane Javakhishvili</a> introduced the term "Sabediano", based on a standard Georgian geographic <a href="/wiki/Circumfix" title="Circumfix">circumfix</a> <i>sa⟩ ⟨o</i>, to refer to a polity—semi-independent of the kings of Georgia—which had come into being, by the 1470s, to bring together Mingrelia (<a href="/wiki/Odishi" title="Odishi">Odishi</a> proper), Abkhazia, and Guria under the aegis of the Dadiani princes with the style of Bediani.<sup id="cite_ref-javax1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-javax1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This view and the associated neologism were accepted by several Soviet-era scholars, including <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zurab_Anchabadze&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zurab Anchabadze (page does not exist)">Zurab Anchabadze</a>, who, however, dated the emergence of the principality of Sabediano back to the end of the 14th century, when the Mingrelian princes were reported by the Georgian sources to have had dispossessed their Abkhazian counterparts of their holdings up to and including <a href="/wiki/Anacopia" class="mw-redirect" title="Anacopia">Anacopia</a>. The suggested boundaries of the principality, at its largest extent, were from the <a href="/wiki/%C3%87oruh_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Çoruh River">Chorokhi river</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Caucasus" title="Greater Caucasus">Greater Caucasus</a> crest and from the <a href="/wiki/Tskhenistsqali" title="Tskhenistsqali">Tskhenistsqali</a> to the Black Sea.<sup id="cite_ref-javax1_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-javax1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-anch_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anch-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other historians, such as <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Toumanoff" title="Cyril Toumanoff">Cyril Toumanoff</a><sup id="cite_ref-toumanoff1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toumanoff1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Tamaz Beradze,<sup id="cite_ref-gse8_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gse8-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> dismissed the possibility of existence of the Dadiani-ruled unified polity such as Sabediano, with Abkhazia and Guria as its parts. According to Toumanoff, "Guria was a fief of the <a href="/wiki/Secundogeniture" title="Secundogeniture">secundogeniture</a> of the Dadianis, separate from Mingrelia, as early as 1352."<sup id="cite_ref-toumanoff1_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toumanoff1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bediani_(title)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-toumanoff1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-toumanoff1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-toumanoff1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-toumanoff1_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFToumanoff1949–51" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-year-range-abbreviated"><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Toumanoff" title="Cyril Toumanoff">Toumanoff, Cyril</a> (1949–51). 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