Historic documents...


Well-known historian-archivist, Professor Sargis Kakabadze (1886-1967) researched and published many valuable old records about Georgian history. His works are important sources for Georgian genealogical studies as well, because they include a lot of medieval surnames, positions, property, etc of the Georgians. On this alphabetical reference you can see the Georgian surnames which are published by S. Kakabadze in the following works: Historic documents, Tphilisi 1913, V volumes; Western Georgia’s church books, Tphilisi 1921, II volumes; Book of the Barathaanth separation in 1536, “Historic messenger”, 1924, book I, pp. 173-192; The great chronicle of the Aphkhazian catholic peasants, Tphilisi 1914; Chronicle of the Amilakhvaris’ place, Tphilisi 1925.