Sherip Khimshiashvili

Şerif Bey, Sherip Khimshiashvili (Georgian: შერიფ ხიმშიაშვილი), or Prince and Duke Sherif (Russian: Шериф-бек Аджарский) (1829 or 7 January 1833 – 1892) was a Georgian nobleman (Beylerbeyi ) of the Khimshiashvili Dynasty from Adjara in the Ottoman service.

Prince Şerif was born in Khulo to Ahmed Paşa, Prince and an Ottoman general and a semi-autonomous hereditary ruler (beylerbey, "lord of the valleys") of Upper Adjara, At the time of his father's death in 1836, Şerif Bey was still in his minority and his mother administered the family's estates, while his uncle, Kor Hussein Bey, bey of the Penek valley, was regarded as the head of the Khimshiashvili princedom and dukedom.

"Part of this road has, with uncommon skill and diligence, been brought into excellent order, so as to allow the transport even of heavy artillery, by Shereef Beg, the hereditary Mudeer or Governor.

[3] During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, Şerif Bey refused to serve the Ottoman cause and supported the Russians in their unsuccessful attempt to occupy Batum and Adjara.

In November 1878, Şerif led a delegation of Adjarian notables to meet Georgian writers and public figures in Tiflis on the occasion of reunion of Adjara with the rest of Georgia under the Russian rule.