Bikhakhanim

Bikhakhanim was the reigning princess of a small polity located on the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. She may have been of Circassian, Georgian, or Cuman origin. The Russian historian F. K. Brun, suggests that the name of the princess might not have been "Bikhakhanim," but "Bikhakhatun," [Brun ii. 386.] and that, if so, she was the daughter of the Georgian prince Beka II Jakeli (died 1391), the ruler of Samtskhe and Klarjeti. [Brosset ii. 206.]

Bikhakhanim was married in 1419 to the Genoese Jew Simeone de Guizolfi, who through this marriage became ruler of that country under Genoese overlordship. One of his heirs, Zacharias de Guizolfi, was still reigning in 1482.

ee also

*Gazaria
*Ghisolfi
*Tmutarakan

Notes

References

*Brosset, Marie-Félicité. "Hist. de la Géorgie."
*Brun, F. K. "Trudy Pervago Archeologickeskago Syezda v Moskve," 1869, ii. 386
*Löwe, Richard. "Die Reste der Germanen am Schwarzen Meere", p. 42, Halle, 1896.
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1058&letter=B&search=Bikhakhanim Rosenthal, Herman. "Bikhakhanim".] "Jewish Encyclopedia". Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906.