Tavdgiridze

This forced many of the Tavdgiridze to relocate to relatively safer areas such as Kartli, Imereti, and Guria.

In the latter province, in the 17th century, the family was bestowed by the local ruling prince Giorgi III Gurieli with an estate in Lower Guria and the hereditary office of Chief Bailiff (bok’auli).

The Ottoman expansion into Lower Guria in the 1770s divided the Tavdgiridze family along religious lines.

[1] One of Mamuka's sons, Maxime, became Muslim, adopted the name of Süleyman and was conferred by the Ottoman government with the sanjak of Çürüksu (Kobuleti).

His descendants remained loyal local rulers to the Ottoman Empire, fighting the Russians in the wars of 1853-6 and 1877-8.