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383: 264: 1075: 1181:. Most of these communities no longer speak the Georgian language, but retain aspects of Georgian culture and keep a Georgian conscious. Some argue that Iranian Georgians retain remnants of Christian traditions, but there is no evidence for this. Most Georgians in Fereydunshahr and Fereydan speak and understand Georgian. Iranian Georgians observe the Shia traditions and also non-religious traditions similar to other people in Iran. They observe the traditions of 629: 526: 479: 285: 660: 2427: 2547: 1232: 712: 2559: 1246: 560:, the last Iranian empire that would, despite very briefly, have effective control over Georgia, 15,000 Georgians were moved to Iran according to the Persian sources, while the Georgian ones mention 22,000 persons. This last large wave of Georgian movement and settlement towards mainland Iran happened as a result of the 1215:
The number of Georgians in Iran is estimated to be over 100,000. According to Encyclopaedia Georgiana (1986) some 12,000–14,000 lived in rural Fereydan c. 1896, and a more recent estimation cited by Rezvani (published 2009, written in 2008) states that there may be more than 61,000 Georgians in
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from the far off easternmost regions of the empire took advantage of Iranian internal weakness and invaded Iran. The Iranian Georgian contribution in wars against the invading Afghans was crucial. Georgians fought in the battle of Golnabad, and in the battle of
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claimed that there was no household in Persia without its Georgian slaves, noticing the huge amounts of Georgians present everywhere in society. The later Safavid capital, Isfahan, was home to many Georgians. Many of the city's inhabitants were of Georgian,
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with its five crosses. Saakashvili who stressed that the Iranian Georgians have historically played an important role in defending Iran put flowers on the graves of the Iranian Georgian dead of the eight years long
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Despite their isolation from Georgia, many Georgians have preserved their language and some traditions, but embraced Islam. The ethnographer Lado Aghniashvili was first from Georgia to visit this community in 1890.
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Most of the nobility and royalty of Georgian descent held numerous functions as officials and/or in the military, but are, for the sake of coherence and simplicity, virtually only included here in the list of
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In total, the Persian sources mention that during the Safavid era 225,000 Georgians were transplanted to mainland Iran during the first two centuries, while the Georgian sources keep this number at 245,000.
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Fereydan. Modern-day estimations regarding the number of Iranian Georgians are that they compose over 100,000. They are also the largest Caucasus-derived group in the nation, ahead of the
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descent. Engelbert Kaempfer, who was in Safavid Persia in 1684-85, estimated their number at 20,000. Following an agreement between Shah Abbas I and his Georgian subject
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Muliani, S. (2001) Jâygâhe Gorjihâ dar Târix va Farhang va Tamaddone Irân (The Georgians’ Position in Iranian History and Civilization). Esfahan: Yekta Publication.
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Saakashvili visited Fereydunshahr and put flowers on the graves of the Iranian Georgian martyrs' graves, showing respect towards this community
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leadership wanted to repatriate them to Georgia, Moscow clearly preferred to keep them in Iran. The Soviet plans were abandoned only after
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Aptin Khanbaghi (2006)The Fire, the Star and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early. London & New YorkIB Tauris.
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dynasties and nobility had Georgian blood. In fact, the heavily mixed Safavid dynasty (1501-1736) was of partial Georgian origins
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realized that his plans to obtain influence in northern Iran foiled by both Iranian stubbornness and United States pressure.
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Rahimi, M. M. (2001) Gorjihâye Irân: Fereydunšahr (The Georgians of Iran; Fereydunshahr). Esfahan: Yekta Publication.
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era, Georgia became so politically and somewhat culturally intertwined with Iran that Georgians replaced the
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Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, Bernard Lewis, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Charles Pellat, Joseph Schacht.
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The local self-designation of Georgians in Iran, like the rest of the Georgians over the world is
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relocated some two hundred thousand from their historical homeland, eastern Georgian provinces of
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have retained their distinct Georgian identity to this day, despite adopting certain aspects of
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Safavid courtiers leading Georgian captives. A mid-16th century Persian textile panel from the
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Muliani, S. (2001) Jaygah-e Gorjiha dar Tarikh va Farhang va Tammadon-e Iran. Esfahan: Yekta
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military commanders and administrators were (Islamized) Georgians. Many members of the
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as a possible instrument for fomenting unrest in Iranian domestic politics. While the
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Most likely, the first extant community of Georgians within Iran was formed following
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empires and from the 16th century till the early 19th century, starting with the
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The Fereydani Georgian Representation of Identity and Narration of History
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where there remained only one old woman who remembered Georgian in 1934),
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in the 19th century to Iran, following the Russian conquest of the
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after Persia was forced to cede all of its territories in the
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is still used by a minority of people in Iran. The center of
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Shah Suleiman I and his courtiers, Isfahan, 1670. Painter is
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among themselves. There must also have been some Georgian
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Index

Fereydan
Gilan
Mazandaran
Golestan
Khuzestan
Isfahan
Azerbaijan
Khorasan
Tehran
Persian
Georgian
Mazandarani
Dezfuli
Shushtari
Shi'a Islam
Georgians
Iranians
Georgian
Persian
Iranian
Georgian
Georgia
Achaemenid
Sassanian
Safavids
Qajars
Shah Abbas I
Christian
Jewish
Georgians

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