Melikov

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The House of Melikov (, ), the Russified version of Armenian last name Melikyan () was an Armenian noble family in the Kingdom of Georgia and later in the Russian Empire. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Овнатанян._Портрет_Середина_19_в._Тбилиси,_Музей_искусств.jpg" caption="Portrait of a Melikishvili woman by [[Hakob Hovnatanyan]], The Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi."] ::

The family descended from an Armenian nobleman named Malek Miriman who hailed from Somkhiti, had converted to Islam and was enfeoffed with the melikdom of Lori by the Safavid Iranian king Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576). Under the Safavids, the family continued to rise to prominence, and they were known as the Mirimanidze clan/family.

Later, the family returned to Christianity (Georgian Orthodox) and were confirmed as Princes Melikishvili (მელიქიშვილი) and dukes of Somkhiti.

A branch of this family became Armenian Apostolic and came to be known as Loris-Melikov (Лорис-Меликов), which means Meliks of Lori (Princes of Lori). After the Russian annexation of Georgia, the family was received among the princely nobility (knyaz) of the Russian Empire, and was made famous by General Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov (1825–88) who was bestowed with the dignity of count in 1878.

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  1. [https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%A1%D0%91%D0%95/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B Melikovs] // [[Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron]]  : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg., 1890—1907.
  2. (2003). "On the Ethno-Social Background of Four Gholām Families from Georgia in Safavid Iran". Studia Iranica.
  3. [[Ioane Bagrationi
  4. {{in lang. ru [http://www.rulex.ru/01120347.htm Лорис-Меликовы (Loris-Melikov)]. Russian Biographic Lexicon. Retrieved on January 23, 2008.
  5. {{in lang. ru Fedorchenko V. I. (2003) ''Дворянские роды, прославившие Отечество. Энциклопедия дворянских родов''. Olma Media Group. {{ISBN. 5-7867-0056-9.
  6. Dologorukov P. V. (1856) [https://books.google.com/books?id=MDYaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA474 ''Российская родословная книга, издаваемая князем Петром Долгоруковым'']. Ch.3, p. 474.

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