Editing Iranian Georgians (section)

==Notable Georgians of Iran==
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[[File:Ali Culi Jabbadar 001.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Shah Suleiman I and his courtiers, Isfahan, 1670. Painter is [[Aliquli Jabbadar]], and is kept at The [[Saint Petersburg]] Institute of Oriental Studies in Russia, ever since it was acquired by [[Tsar Nicholas II]]. Note the [[Georgian script|Georgian letters]] at the top left.]]

Many [[Iran]]ian military commanders and administrators were (Islamized) Georgians.<ref>Babak Rezvani. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_gMXAwAAQBAJ&dq=caucasian+khans+member+iranian+royal+family&pg=PA171 "Ethno-territorial conflict and coexistence in the caucasus, Central Asia and Fereydan"] Amsterdam University Press, 15 mrt. 2014 ISBN 
{{ISBN|978-9048519286}} p 171</ref> Many members of the [[Safavid dynasty|Safavid]] and [[Qajar dynasty|Qajar]] dynasties and nobility had Georgian blood.<ref>Aptin Khanbaghi (2006)The Fire, the Star and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early. London & New YorkIB Tauris. {{ISBN|1-84511-056-0}}, pp. 130-1.</ref><ref>Babak Rezvani. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_gMXAwAAQBAJ&dq=caucasian+khans+member+iranian+royal+family&pg=PA171 "Ethno-territorial conflict and coexistence in the caucasus, Central Asia and Fereydan"] Amsterdam University Press, 15 mrt. 2014 {{ISBN|978-9048519286}} p 171</ref> In fact, the heavily mixed Safavid dynasty (1501-1736) was of partial Georgian origins [[Safavid dynasty family tree|from its very beginning]].

===List of Iranian Georgians===
{{Incomplete list|date=September 2016}}
'''Military:''' [[Allahverdi Khan]], [[Otar Beg Orbeliani]], [[Rustam Khan (Sipahsalar)|Rustam Khan the ''sipahsalar'']], [[Imam Quli Khan (governor)|Imam-Quli Khan]], [[Yusef Khan-e Gorji]], [[Grigor Mikeladze]], [[Konstantin Mikeladze]], [[Daud Khan Undiladze]], [[Prince Rostom of Kartli|Rustam Khan the ''qullar-aqasi'']], [[Prince Alexander of Kartli (died 1711)|Eskandar Mirza]] (d. 1711), [[Bektash of Kakheti]], [[Kaikhosro of Kartli]], [[Levan of Kartli|Shah-Quli Khan]] (Levan of Kartli), [[Prince Aleksandre of Georgia|Eskandar Mirza]] (Prince Aleksandre of Georgia), [[Prince Rostom of Kartli]], [[Vsevolod Starosselsky]]

'''Arts:''' [[Aliquli Jabbadar]], [[Antoin Sevruguin]], [[André Sevruguin]], [[Nima Yooshij]], [[Siyâvash (artist)|Siyâvash]], Ahmad Beg Gorji Aktar (fl. 1819) and his brother Mohammad-Baqer Beg "Nasati”,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Khaleghi-Motlagh|first1=DJ|title=Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 7|date=1984|pages=730–731|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/aktar-ahmad-beg-gorji-a-poet-of-the-era-of-fath-ali-shah-qaar-1212-50-1797-1834|access-date=15 February 2015|chapter=Aḵtar, Aḥmad Beg Gorjī}}</ref>

'''Royalty/nobility:'''{{refn|group=note|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 "Royalty/nobility".}} [[Bijan Beg Saakadze]], [[Simon II of Kartli|Semayun Khan]] (Simon II of Kartli), [[Otar Beg Orbeliani]], [[Abd-ol-Ghaffar Amilakhori]], [[Zurab I, Duke of Aragvi|Sohrab I, Duke of Araghvi]] (Zurab), [[Pishkinid dynasty]], [[Haydar Mirza Safavi]], [[Safi of Persia]], [[Dowlatshah]], [[Gurgin Khan]] (George XI of Kartli), [[David II of Kakheti|Imām Qulī Khān]] (David II of Kakheti), [[Bagrat VII of Kartli|Bagrat Khan]] (Bagrat VII), [[Constantine I of Kakheti|Constantine Khan]] (Constantine I), [[Constantine II of Kakheti|Mahmād Qulī Khān]] (Constantine II of Kakheti), [[Ivan Aleksandrovich Bagration]], [[Heraclius I of Kakheti|Nazar Alī Khān]] (Heraclius I of Kakheti), [[Prince Jesse of Kakheti|'Isa Khan Gorji]] (Prince Jesse of Kakheti), [[Jesse of Kakheti|Isā Khān]] (Jesse of Kakheti), [[Princess Ketevan of Kakheti]], [[Levan of Kartli|Shah-Quli Khan]] (Levan of Kartli), [[Manuchar II Jaqeli]], [[Prince Aleksandre of Georgia|Eskandar Mirza]] (Prince Aleksandre of Georgia), [[Vakhtang V of Kartli|Shah Nawaz]] (Vakhtang V of Kartli), Mustafa, fourth son of Tahmasp I,<ref>Juan de Persia, ''Don Juan of Persia'', (Routledge, 2004), 129.</ref> Heydar Ali, third son of Tahmasp I.<ref>Savory, Roger, ''Iran Under the Safavids'', (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 68.</ref>

'''Academics:''' [[Parsadan Gorgijanidze]], [[Jamshid Giunashvili]], [[Mohammad-Taqi Bahar]], [https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/display/lkarimi Professor Leila Karimi]

'''Politicians/officials:''' [[Shahverdi Khan (Georgian)]], [[Manouchehr Khan Gorji]] (''Motamed-od-dowleh''), [[Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Soltan|Amin al-Sultan]], [[Bahram Aryana]], [[Vakhushti Khan Orbeliani]], [[Ahmad ibn Nizam al-Mulk]], [[Prince Alexander of Kartli (died 1773)|Ishaq Beg]] (Alexander of Kartli, d. 1773), [[Bijan Beg (son of Rustam Khan)|Bijan Beg]] (son of Rustam Khan the ''sipahsalar''), [[Prince Jesse of Kakheti|'Isa Khan Gorji]], Otar Beg Orbeliani,

'''Others:''' [[Undiladze]], [[Mahmoud Karimi Sibaki]]

The names of actors [[Cyrus Gorjestani]] and [[Sima Gorjestani]], as well as the late [[Nematollah Gorji]], suggest that they are/were (at least from the paternal side) of Georgian origin. [[Reza Shah]] [[Pahlavi dynasty|Pahlavi]]'s mother was a [[Georgians|Georgian]] [[Ethnic cleansing of Circassians|muhajir]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTVSPmyvtkAC&q=reza+shah+mother+georgian+origin&pg=PA4|title=The Life and Times of the Shah|isbn=9780520942165|access-date=22 April 2015|last1=Afkhami|first1=Gholam Reza|date=12 January 2009|publisher=University of California Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jRZ227eqm4sC&q=reza+shah+georgian+origin&pg=PA3|title=The Pahlavi Dynasty: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam|isbn=9781908433015|access-date=22 April 2015|last1=Adel|first1=Gholamali Haddad|last2=Elmi|first2=Mohammad Jafar|last3=Taromi-Rad|first3=Hassan|date=31 August 2012|publisher=EWI Press }}</ref> who most likely came to mainland [[Qajar dynasty|Persia]] after Persia was forced to cede all of its territories in the [[Caucasus]] following the [[Russo-Persian Wars]] several decades prior to Reza Shah's birth.

For a more lengthy discussion on Georgians and Persia refer to.<ref>''[[Encyclopædia Iranica]]'' on {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312034801/http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f5/v10f504a.html Gorjestan]}}</ref>