What is "dgebuadze"

Dgebuadze is a Georgian surname, which may mean:

• Dgebuadze (noble family), a noble family in Georgia
• Alexandre Dgebuadze (born 1971), a Belgian chess grandmaster
• Leon Dgebuadze (1897-1924), a Georgian politician shot in the Red Terror
• Mariam Dgebuadze-Pularia (1887-1969), a Georgian female writer
• Vladimeri Dgebuadze (born 1970), a Georgian judoka

Dgebuadze was a Georgian noble family from the province of Mingrelia. In the 19th century, they served to the Dadiani princes of Mingrelia as governors ( mouravi) of the canton of Salipartiano. According to the historian Cyril Toumanoff, they were accepted among the princely nobility of the Russian Empire in 1903.