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that the dish never reached that region of the country due to the fact that the
Mongolians never entered the forest which covers its surface. They did not
know how to fight a battle in the forest region as they were unfamiliar with
forests in their own homeland. It is of great interest that a dish that has a for-
eign origin is regarded as a national dish. There is a written source from the
year 1658 that states that Khinkali was made of dry ham of animals (it does
not say anything about salting or any other preparation of the meat besides
drying) (
Sulxan-saba, 
1993, p 
423)
. For me, this raises the question as to how,
why, and when the dried meat
was 
transformed into the dish we know today
as Khinkali.  I hope that I can answer that question in due course as the re-
search progresses.
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On the Descent of Grigol Bakurianisdze 
(the Son of Bakur)
Manana Sanadze
The University of Georgia
l
l the researchers, who have ever questioned Grogol Bakurianis-dze’s ethnicity
– whether they consider it Georgian or Armenian – have unanimously agreed upon
his origin from the province of Tao. Nobody has called into question that standpoint,
which was first suggested by N. Marr. In fact, one cannot find any indications on his
origin from Tao in the available sources. Having compared the sources with each
other, we have come to the conclusion that Grigol belonged to the main branch of the
reknowned Georgian royal family of Parnavaziani-Khosroviani (Sasanidz). When
the kingship of Kartli had been abolished by percians in the middle of VI century, the
family settled down in Kakheti. After one of its members, Nerse I, superseded
Guaram the Young , the son of Stepanoz II of the Gorgasliani’s Klarjeti branch, on
the throne of Kartli’s erismtavaris in the 570s, Kakheti still remained the Bakuriani’s
patrimonial domain. Nerse I and his sons – Stepanoz, Adarnase and Philip – are men-
tioned as the Bakuriani in the list of erismtavaris in Moktsevai Kartlisa. The Bakuri-
ani were Kartli’s erismtavaris till 780s inclusive, when Ashot Bagrationi deprived
them of that honor at the end of the century. A Bakuriani, Grigol by name – in our
opinion, the smallest son of Nerse II – had to relinquish his rights to the title of
Erismtavari of Kartli and content oneself with the rights to his family domain,
Kakheti, after a lost battle with Ashot the Kurapalat in the early 9th century. The re-
volted Donauri deprived Grigol’s descendents of their sovereign rights to Kakheti in
the early 830s. We suppose that Bakuriani were still considered the noblest feudal
family of Kakheti after that, though the sources pass it over in silence. About two
centuries later, a Bakuriani, Grigol’s father, was serving to Giorgi I and, together with
Prince Bagrat, went to Byzantium as a hostage of Emperor Basil. Information main-
tained in Petritsoni’s Typikon gives us some reason to surmise that Grigol Bakuri-
anisdze’s brother-in-law (his sister’s husband), Abas, was brother to King Aghsartan
of Kakheti, which means Grigol’s close filiation with the family of Kvirikiani – Ar-
menian Bagratuni – ruling in Georgia at the time. We have also specially perused
the last part of Moktsevai Kartlisas – the list of erismtavaris – in this connection.
The reading of the defective, obscure text is suggested as follows: “Then Nerse the
Great and his sons: Philip, and Stepanoz, and Adarnase, and Guaram the Great
Bakuriani, and the son of Bal 
[
gh
] [
a
] 
dadi 
[
Adarnase
]
, and the sons of Adarnase:
Stepanoz, and
Ashot, and Guaram, the great Eristavis, lived. ”  The brackets
represent restored parts and in the word “
Bal 
[
gh
] [
a
] 
dadi
” the original “L”
is restored as initial “GH.” Confusion between “L” and “GH” is caused by the
similarity of these two in Georgian-Nuskhuri (Minuscule) writings.
A
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