Apakidze (noble family)

Ap'ak'idze ( _ka. აფაქიძე) is a Georgian family with noble ancestry. According to a family legend, the Apakidze descend from Arp’a-Khan, "a Tatar of Genghis Khan’s times", who embraced Christianity and settled down first in Abkhazia and then in Mingrelia (Odishi).Bagrationi, Ioane (1768-1830). [http://www.geogen.ge/indexen.php?id_menu=12&id_menu_up=2&lang=en&id_let=34&abc=1 Apakidze (Princes of Odishi)] . "The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses". Retrieved on December 19, 2007.]

The Apakidze had been vassals to the Dadiani princes of Mingrelia, and then were confirmed as princes (knyaz) of the Russian Empire in 1903. [Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). "Studies in Christian Caucasian History", p. 272. Georgetown University Press.]

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