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Claims

A claim is the site's basic unit: a statement, a grade and a note on what the sources do not confirm. Every record rests on the material shown, including unconfirmed and legendary reports, which are marked as such.

This page gathers the graded claims about the history of the Beridzes (ბერიძე), along with family legends, unconfirmed reports and refuted views. Each record is tied to a source and carries a grade. The grading scale shows how far the site trusts a claim. That trust rests on the best source behind the claim and on whether we have read that source ourselves. A legend is always called a legend, and a refuted view always comes with an explanation.

Key claims · 30

  1. B-001 A The root ბერი is polysemous. Abuladze's Old Georgian dictionary (1973) glosses it 'elderly person' and 'monk'; ქეგლ (2008) gives 'old person' and 'member of a monastic brotherhood'. Scholars add 'son, boy' (Javakhishvili 1937; cf. Laz ბერე), 'infant' (Marr), a son vowed as a ბერი when children were ill or dying (Koberidze 2023), and in Kartli a newborn called ბერი until its first year (Bardavelidze 1947, via Koberidze 2024). The 'son' sense is the one tied to ბერიძე.
  2. B-002 A Georgian linguists argue that the element ბერი (beri) in surnames is not simply the modern word for 'monk' or 'old man'. In his study of the ბერ- root in Georgian names, ი. მაისურაძე held that in compound names such as გოგიბერი and კახაბერი (the sources of კახაბერიძე, გოგიბერიძე etc.) only the first part was a man's name, while ბერი served as a general masculine marker meaning 'boy', 'son', 'male child' (ვაჟი, ბიჭი, ყრმა) — so გოგიბერი is "გოგი the boy", not "son of გოგი". მარიამ კობერიძე (2024) endorses this view and adds that ბერი is an old Common Kartvelian word for 'son' (ივ. ჯავახიშვილი; cf. Laz ბერე 'son', preserved in the surname კაკუბერე 'son of Kaku'). The simple surname ბერიძე itself presupposes a personal name ბერი, so it is read as 'son of ბერი' — a name that carried this older sense of 'boy, male child'. The word ბერი is polysemous (old person, monk, son, infant, a child vowed to an icon), and the 'monk' sense does dominate in place-names, but scholars hold that in surname formation it marked male descent.
  3. B-003 A ბერიძე (Beridze) is a simple-stem surname: the personal name ბერი (Beri) plus the patronymic suffix -ძე (-dze, "son"), i.e. "son of Beri". ბერი is attested as an independent male given name in Georgian documents of the 17th century (e.g. a 1616–1621 charter naming a resident of ცაიში) and derives from the common noun ბერი, which in Georgian means "elderly man" and "monk", and which historian ივანე ჯავახიშვილი regarded as an old common-Kartvelian word for "son" (cf. Laz ბერე "child"). Linguist მარიამ კობერიძე (2024) classifies ბერიძე and ბერიშვილი as the "simple-stem (ბერ+ძე)" type, distinct from compound surnames such as კახაბერიძე or სულაბერიძე, where ბერ- is the second element.
  4. B-004 A ბერიძე (Beridze) belongs to a wider family of Georgian surnames built on the root ბერ-ი (beri) — among them კახაბერიძე (Kakhaberidze), გულაბერიძე (Gulaberidze), ღოღობერიძე (Ghoghoberidze), ჯანბერიძე (Janberidze), ჯოხთაბერიძე (Jokhtaberidze), ბერსენაძე (Bersenadze) and ბერასძე (Berasdze). According to onomastic research (Mariam Koberidze, 2023, drawing on I. Maisuradze), the compound names such as კახაბერი or გოგიბერი were formed from a man's given name plus ბერ-ი used as a suffix meaning "male, boy", and these compound names later became surnames in their own right — კახაბერისძე is already attested in the medieval Synodikon of Tbeti (ტბეთის სულთა მატიანე). The shared root is therefore linguistic, not proof of common descent. A separate oral tradition from Meskheti and Guria, recorded on Georgian Wikipedia and traced to Kveli Chkhataraishvili's 1959 study "გურიის სამთავრო", holds that the კახაბერიძე and გულაბერიძე families split off from the ბერიძე line, and that a king Giorgi III granted one Beridze the name კახაბერიძე; this should be read as a family legend rather than documented genealogy. No source connects გოგიბერიძე (Gogiberidze) or კობერიძე (Koberidze) to the Beridze family beyond the ბერ- root.
  5. B-005 A The earliest document with an exact date that names the family is a charter of 25 October 1411 (koronikon 99) from Kartli, in which დავით ბერისძე and his wife მითა sell a vineyard at ბოტოტა to Svetitskhoveli under Catholicos ელიოზ. It survives in a later copy (Mtskheta documents No. 160; Corpus II No. 30). The name is older: a serf ბერისძე appears in a Shida Kartli blood-money claim of the second half of the 13th century (b-201).
  6. B-006 A In a blood-money charter (სასისხლო სიგელი) granted by King ალექსანდრე to კაციბერ თოფურიძე — dated 1484–1488 by G. Arakhamia and generally attributed to ალექსანდრე II of იმერეთი (an ambiguous colophon led its first editor, E. Taqaishvili, to place it under ალექსანდრე I) — დემეტრე ბერიძე is named among the king's court officials ("სხვანი ჩუენი კარის ვაზირნი") who witnessed the document.
  7. B-007 A The ტბეთის სულთა მატიანე (Tbeti Book of Souls), a commemoration book of the Tbeti monastery in შავშეთი (Shavsheti, historic Tao-Klarjeti, now in Turkey) with entries from roughly the 12th to 17th centuries (critical edition 1977), records ბერ-root surnames such as ბერასძე (Berasdze, "ბერასძე ქუთნი"), ბერერისძე (Bererisdze), გოგაბერისძე (Gogaberisdze), წითელბერისძე (Tsitelberisdze) and კახაბერისძე (Kakhaberisdze) — parallel formations from the same root ბერ- as ბერიძე, as noted by ნ. კახიძე and მ. კობერიძე.
  8. B-008 A The earliest documentary trace of the family in აჭარა (Adjara) is a charter discovered by დიმიტრი ბაქრაძე (Dimitri Bakradze) in the 19th century, known as the „იასე ცინცაძის სიგელი" (Iase Tsintsadze charter), which names a ბეჟიტა ბერიძე (Bezhita Beridze). Bakradze argued the document was drawn up before Islam spread in Adjara, probably in the second half of the 15th century (დ. ბაქრაძე, არქეოლოგიური მოგზაურობა გურიასა და აჭარაში, 1987 ed., p. 33, as cited by მ. კობერიძე, აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის მაცნე VII/2, 2024). The scholarly source does not describe Bezhita as a nobleman; the „აზნაური" title given in the Georgian Wikipedia article is an addition, and refers in the original to the Beridzes of საციციანო in Kartli, who were აზნაურები of the ციციშვილი house.
  9. B-009 A In his 18th-century "აღწერა სამეფოსა საქართველოსა", ვახუშტი ბაგრატიონი lists ბერიძე among the princely (თავადი) houses of გურია that stood under the გურიელი — alongside თავდგირიძე, შარვაშიძე, კვერღელისძე, ბერეჟიანი and ნაკაშიძე — "and likewise the aznaurs" (ეგრეთვე აზნაურნიცა). Later documents confirm the family's tavadi standing (a 1488 charter of Imereti; 17th-century Gurieli charters naming გიორგი ბერიძე as მესტუმრეთუხუცესი and ოთარ ბერიძე as სახლთუხუცესი), before the house declined to aznaur rank around the turn of the 18th century, its court offices passing to the ნაკაშიძე. Vakhushti gives no date for the family's origin; the "12th–14th century" dating found in popular surname articles is a later gloss, not his.
  10. B-010 A In Kartli, PAL I (1991) indexes ბერიძე ხუცია, an aznaurishvili of the Tsitsishvilis with three serf households in მაწლეთი and ჯამლეთი, in Tsitsi Tsitsishvili's serf list dated [1658–1675] (Hd-14534 ბ); ბერიძე ბახუტა is in the same list. The Saamilakhvro register (second half of the 17th century, 1448-5032) records a Beridze household at ანდორეთი, four of whose men owed service with muskets.
  11. B-011 D tradition According to an oral tradition of uncertain origin, the ბერიძე (Beridze) families of აჭარა (Adjara) — especially those of ქვემო აჭარა (Lower Adjara) — were remembered as ბეგები (begs), an Ottoman-era title roughly comparable to the Georgian თავადი/აზნაური (tavadi/aznauri) nobility. This is family legend, not documented history: it first appeared as an uncited addition to the Georgian Wikipedia article ბერიძეები in October 2016, and the only academic text repeating it (M. Koberidze, აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის მაცნე, 2024) reproduces that Wikipedia passage without naming any informant or record. Written Adjarian records from the Ottoman period are largely lost, so the claim cannot currently be confirmed or refuted.
  12. B-012 B At the turn of the 17th–18th centuries the princely (თავადი) ბერიძე house of გურია declined: the offices it had held at the court of the გურიელი passed to the ნაკაშიძე family, and the ბერიძეები were reduced to the rank of აზნაური. In the 18th century the childless აზნაური მამუკა ბერიძე of დვაბზუ bequeathed his estate to საყვარელ ნაკაშიძე. (Source: ო. სოსელია, ნარკვევები ფეოდალური ხანის დასავლეთ საქართველოს სოციალურ-პოლიტიკური ისტორიიდან, ტ. II, თბილისი, 1981, გვ. 167, as cited in the Georgian Wikipedia article ბერიძეები.)
  13. B-013 D tradition A Meskhetian legend (recorded in ქართული დიალექტოლოგია, vol. I, p. 362) says that most of the village ერკოტი near ახალციხე are ბერიძეები descended from a single monk who fled ზარზმა monastery during a Tatar invasion, married in ერკოტი, took up farming while secretly continuing to serve the liturgy, and was recorded under the surname ბერიძე; his lineage was nicknamed ზანდარიენთი (earlier ზარზგიენთი). A second, unreferenced variant retold on Georgian Wikipedia says three brother-monks of ზარზმა were ordered to leave and raise families during a plague, one settling in აჭარა, one in მესხეთი and one in გურია, all recorded as ბერიძე. Neither variant is documentary history; they are origin tales of one Meskhetian village lineage.
  14. B-014 D tradition A Meskhetian legend (recorded for ერკოტი, Akhaltsikhe district, and reproduced in popular surname compilations) says most of the village's ბერიძეები descend from a single monk who fled the ზარზმა monastery during a Tatar invasion, took a wife in ერკოტი to avoid suspicion, and turned to farming while secretly still holding services. The tale adds that this lineage was once called ზარზგიენთ (evidently after ზარზმა) and is today called ზანდარიენთ. This is oral lore, not documented history.
  15. B-015 A According to მარიამ კობერიძე's 2024 study "ბერ-ძირიანი გვარსახელები აჭარაში" (აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის მაცნე, vol. VII, no. 2), the ბერიძე family is today spread across all five municipalities of Adjara. In ხულო municipality alone the study records Beridzes in some 35 villages, among them აგარა, ახალშენი, ბაკო, დანისპარაული, ღორჯომი, ხიხაძირი and ხულო itself, with comparably long lists for შუახევი, ქედა, ხელვაჩაური and ქობულეთი. The study does not rank these villages by number of Beridzes.
  16. B-016 A According to Mariam Koberidze's 2024 onomastic study of ბერ-root surnames in Adjara (აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის მაცნე, vol. VII, no. 2), ბერიძე families today live in villages across all five Adjaran municipalities — ხულო (Khulo), შუახევი (Shuakhevi), ქედა (Keda), ხელვაჩაური (Khelvachauri) and ქობულეთი (Kobuleti) — with dozens of villages listed for each, from აგარა and დანისპარაული in the highlands to ჩაქვი and ციხისძირი on the coast.
  17. B-017 A Under Ottoman rule Adjaran ბერიძე families carried Turkish-style -ოღლი bynames: ხაბაძოღლი, ქოროღლი, ჰაიდაროღლი, ოგოროღლი, ჰაჯიოღლი, ნიგაზევლოღლი, and დემირჩოღლი or დემურჩოღლი ('son of the smith') at ზესოფელი and კოკოთაური. Baramidze (2021) adds ბექიროღლი, სიღორიოღლი, ყაზანჯოღლი, ყარამემედოღლი, ფეიზოღლი, ყურწოღლი, სელიმოღლი, შირინოღლი, ხაბაზოღლი, აბუქეთელოღლი, ჩახალოღლი and თელიქოღლი; the 1922 census has ბერიძე-ახმედოღლი, ბერიძე-დაუთოღლი and ბერიძე-ხასანოღლი. Koberidze, after Topchishvili, reads them as branch lineages.
  18. B-018 not confirmed In იმერეთი (Imereti), Georgian reference works describe the ბერიძე family as aznauri (gentry) in the service of the წერეთელი (Tsereteli) princely house and as garrison-men (მეციხოვნეები) of the სვერი (Sveri) fortress; the family is likewise recorded as princely-household aznauri in ლეჩხუმი (Lechkhumi) and სამეგრელო (Samegrelo). Note: this statement appears in the Georgian Wikipedia article without a specific archival citation.
  19. B-019 B ბერიძე (Beridze) is the most common surname in Georgia. According to civil-registry data of the Public Service Development Agency (სახელმწიფო სერვისების განვითარების სააგენტო, Ministry of Justice) released to the press in 2024, about 30,000 people bore the surname — 29,986 in data reported in March 2024 and 30,022 (14,963 men, 15,059 women) in data reported in July 2024 — ahead of კაპანაძე (19,259) and გელაშვილი (18,333). Earlier agency figures had put the count at just over 26,000, also in first place.
  20. B-020 refuted Due to internal migration, it has also become the single most widespread surname in the capital, თბილისი (Tbilisi), with nearly 12,000 bearers.
  21. B-021 D tradition According to Adjarian oral tradition (recorded in ა. ახვლედიანი's 1970 collection "აჭარის საგმირო-საისტორიო ზეპირსიტყვიერება" and repeated in a 2024 article in აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის მაცნე), მემედ-ბეგ ჩახალოღლი-ბერიძე (Memed-beg Chakhaloghli-Beridze) of the village ზესოფელი (Zesopeli, ქედის მუნიციპალიტეტი) was a leader of popular resistance against Ottoman rule in south-western Georgia in the first half of the 19th century. The tradition calls him a comrade and contemporary of სელიმ ხიმშიაშვილი, says he was known as "ბაირახტარი" (standard-bearer), and that his band of about 100 men had contacts in სამცხე-ჯავახეთი and სამეგრელო as well as Adjara. No contemporary documentary evidence for him has been cited; these details are legend.
  22. B-022 B ყადი ნური ეფენდი ბერიძე (Qadi Nuri Efendi Beridze), an Istanbul-educated jurist who served as judge (qadi) of the ხულო district and was son-in-law of the scholar ჰაჯი ლომან ეფენდი ქარცივაძე, initiated the first Georgian school in the village of ოლადაური (Upper Adjara). It opened in October 1915 under the Society for Spreading Literacy among Georgians; Beridze gave his own house for the school and taught there alongside its first teacher, ილია ნაცვალაძე. (Some sources give 1914 or 1916 for the opening.) The opposition to muhajir emigration after 1878 that is sometimes linked to the family is attributed by the sources to his father-in-law, ლომან ეფენდი ქარცივაძე, not to Nuri Beridze himself.
  23. B-023 D tradition According to a Gurian local-history account (repeated in Georgian Wikipedia from a 2017 blog post), an აზნაური of ჯვარცხმა, named there as ყარსუმ (?) ბერიძე, took part in the 1841 Gurian uprising (გურიის აჯანყება) and, in the fight near გრიგოლეთი against the Dadiani (Mingrelian) militia, captured a sword inscribed as a gift from King ერეკლე II to Dadiani; the sword is said to have remained with the Beridze family for about a century. The episode is not documented in any archival or academic source we could find, and even the source marks the first name as uncertain.
  24. B-024 B Bishop იოანე ბერიძე headed the ჯუმათი diocese in Guria around the turn of the 18th century. His installation is dated 1687 (ქართველიშვილი 2006, via Georgian Wikipedia and გურიის მოამბე), 1688 (AKAK VI/2, 1875, after Bakradze's Gurian acts) and 1704 (the Shemokmedi gulani notes printed by Brosset, 1850).
  25. B-025 B ორჰან ბერიძე (Orhan Beridze), a Georgian from the muhajir-descended community of Giresun, Turkey, had his ancestral surname legally restored: by a Turkish court ruling dated 23 May 2017, ორჰან შარდაღი (Orhan Şardağ), registered in the village of Damudere, Bulancak district, was permitted to change his surname to ბერიძე. He described the ruling as his "second birth" („მეგონა, მეორედ დავიბადე და წინაპრები გავაცოცხლე") in a 2020 interview with kartuli.kvira.ge, and the Georgian scholar Natela Jimsheleishvili, writing in the proceedings of the 2017 Istanbul symposium on the 1877–78 Caucasian migrations (published by the Gürcistan Dostluk Derneği, 2019), records having personally witnessed this official restoration of the surname Beridze, quoting his verse „აწი ჩემს მომავალს დაებადოს, ბერიძთა აღვადგინე ჯიში".
  26. B-026 B Nineteenth-century surveys of the ruined ოქონის მონასტერი (Okona Monastery) on Mount ოქონი above the village of აცანა in ლანჩხუთის მუნიციპალიტეტი (Guria) recorded family inscriptions of the ბერიძეები on its walls, alongside those of the ჭანუყვაძეები and ორატაძეები (ურატაძეები). Local tradition dates the foundation to the time of Patriarch მალაქია გურიელი; archaeological traces go back to the 9th century. The church was heavily rebuilt in 1897, when some frescoes and inscriptions were destroyed, and was blown up by the Soviet authorities in 1932, so the inscriptions themselves no longer survive; a new church has stood on the site since the 2010s.
  27. B-027 B According to the Georgian Wikipedia article on ზესოფელი (Keda municipality, Adjara), a hall-church dedicated to St Seraphim of Sarov (სერაფიმ საროველი) was built in the village centre in 2012–2015 on the initiative of Archpriest სერაფიმე (ბერიძე) — born ჯემალ (ნოდარ) ბერიძე in ზესოფელი in 1938, ordained in the 1990s and described in Georgian sources as the first native Adjarian priest of the post-Soviet era; he was tonsured a monk under the name სისო in 2015 and died in 2019 as a schema-archimandrite. ბერიძე is also listed among the village's common surnames (Sh. Abashidze, „დედაო — ჩემო ქედაო", Batumi, 2017). The church's construction dates and his role are stated by Wikipedia without a footnote and have not been independently confirmed.
  28. B-028 A ვახუშტი ბატონიშვილი, in his 18th-century "აღწერა სამეფოსა საქართველოსა" (ქართლის ცხოვრება, vol. IV, p. 790), records a castle of the family in გურია: „ბახვის წყლის შესართავს ზეით არს ციხე ბერიძისა" — "above the confluence of the ბახვისწყალი stands the castle of ბერიძე" — and lists ბერიძე among Guria's princely (თავადი) houses. Georgian reference works identify this castle and its surrounding domain (საბერიძეო) with the village of ძიმითი, where a castle ruin survives, though this localisation is an inference rather than Vakhushti's own statement. Popular accounts also report a "Saberitzeo" marked on Joseph-Nicolas Delisle's 1766 map of the region; this has not been independently verified against the map.
  29. B-029 B Jikia (2013: 66), followed by Baramidze (2021), reads ბერიძე among Georgian -ძე surnames that Ottoman scribes entered as personal or fathers' names in the 1595 Great Defter of the Gurjistan Vilayet (Samtskhe); Koberidze (2024, pp. 471–472) only raises the possibility that the ბერ- names of the registers stand for surnames, since the Ottoman scribes recorded none (she confirmed this framing by e-mail, 30 Sept. 2026). The digital edition of that defter holds one queried ბერიძი, at the Atskuri rabat; elsewhere ბერისძე stands as a patronymic.
  30. B-030 A The linguist მარიამ კობერიძე (Herald of Oriental Studies, vol. VII, no. 2, 2024) names the destruction of written documents under Ottoman rule as the main obstacle to tracing the genealogy of the ბერიძე family in Adjara.

tradition · 11

  1. B-101 D The monk of ერკოტა who fled Zarzma during a "Tatar" invasion, married, farmed, served the liturgy secretly დარბაზებში, and was written down as ბერიძე; lineage called ზარზგიენთ → ზანდარიენთ
  2. B-102 D The three brother-monks sent to Achara, Meskheti and Guria during a plague
  3. B-103 D The 2022 ერკოტა telling (the criminal-turned-monk, the „ერის კოტაობა" games, the Varneti bride)
  4. B-104 D კახაბერიძე and გულაბერიძე "split from the Beridzes"; Giorgi III granted a Beridze the name კახაბერიძე
  5. B-105 D Lower-Adjaran Beridzes were ბეგები
  6. B-106 D მემედ-ბეგ ჩახალოღლი-ბერიძე of ზესოფელი and the „ჩახალოზა" rifle
  7. B-107 D ყარსუმ (?) ბერიძე and Erekle II's sword at გრიგოლეთი, 1841
  8. B-108 D შახი ბერიძე and the five brothers from ღადიში at მარგვიში
  9. B-109 D The Adjaran resettlement/name stories (აბუქეთელოღლი; the ნაკაშიძეები who „დაიწერა ბერიძე"; Sakhokia's rivalry tale)
  10. B-110 D The Russian émigré family's "there were Georgian princes in the line"
  11. B-111 D The Aspindza Beridzes "come from ბერიები"

not confirmed · 16

  1. B-201 A A ბერისძე, a serf of the plaintiff, killed in a Shida Kartli blood-money case in the second half of the 13th century (Corpus I No. 43, scroll Hd-1589; indexed in პირთა ანოტირებული ლექსიკონი I, printed p. 524). Whether ბერისძე here is a hereditary surname or a patronymic cannot be decided from one record.
  2. B-202 A The Akhuashvili chain of Kartli Beridzes (1997, p. 48, via Georgian Wikipedia), 1448–1715, checked item by item against PAL I (1991) and the printed 1715 Ruisi register (Takaishvili 1907, pp. 126–130), where Aradeti has one Beridze, იორდანე; the second name is printed ბერაძე.
  3. B-203 not confirmed Imereti: Tsereteli aznaurs and the Sveri fortress garrison
  4. B-204 B Bishop იოანე ბერიძე of ჯუმათი, 1687–1705
  5. B-205 not confirmed როსტომ ბერიძე, mouravi of the გურიის უდაბნო, 1790
  6. B-206 not confirmed The 1824 Dadiani certificate restoring the Khoni Beridzes' აზნაურობა
  7. B-207 not confirmed ციხე ბერიძისა at ძიმითი, and "Saberitzeo" on Delisle's 1766 map
  8. B-208 not confirmed ვომინიჯა ბერიძე's exact name and husband
  9. B-209 not confirmed The ბერიძეთა საგვარეულო კავშირი (Geostat id 25222463)
  10. B-210 not confirmed ბერიეთობა, 2 August
  11. B-211 not confirmed The Y-DNA result, G2a2b2a1a2b
  12. B-212 A The koronikon figure spelled out in words in King ალექსანდრე's blood-money charter for კაციბერ თოფურიძე is an impossible value.
  13. B-213 not confirmed Appendix A items 51, 52 and the long §9.2 quotation
  14. B-214 not confirmed The identification of Dumin's Нина Симоновна Беридзе with ნინუცა, daughter of სიო
  15. B-215 not confirmed Which ფარცხისი
  16. B-216 B Adigeni: fifth, ბერიძე 353 (1 Feb. 1995 data; Silagadze and Totadze 1997, p. 258)

refuted · 13

  1. B-301

    "Beridze is the most common surname in Tbilisi"

    Refuted (K20). Not in the 2008 Tbilisi top seven. The 11,935 figure belongs to Adjara.

  2. B-302

    "Son of the monk" (Behind the Name, forebears.io user entry)

    A flat simplification no Georgian specialist endorses. Both camps in the scholarly dispute reject it.

  3. B-303

    "Beri = bear"; "-dze is Ossetian"; an Ossetian migration (famiry.ru)

    All three contradict every Georgian source. Russian Wiktionary more honestly leaves the etymology blank.

  4. B-304

    "Princes in the 12th–14th centuries"

    Akhuashvili's gloss on Vakhushti, who dates nothing. Drop it.

  5. B-305

    "Khulo is the Beridze stronghold"

    ხულო is 5th (1,126) on the 1995 data. ხელვაჩაური (3,703) and the coast are.

  6. B-306

    "33+ surnames descend from ბერიძე"

    Conflates the ბერ-root family (large and old) with derivation from ბერიძე, for which there is no evidence beyond the small Beridzeshvili group.

  7. B-307

    "Beridzes are in the 16th-century Adjara defters, misrecorded as given names"

    No secure Beridze household exists in the published Adjara defters. Only ბერული, ბერუკი, თავბერი — and -ული may be a nisba, not a truncated surname.

  8. B-308

    "Beridzes have lived in Adjara since the 1500s"

    Beyond the evidence. What is supported: ber-named Christian households in the Acharistsqali valley in the 1560s, and a very large Beridze population there by the 19th century.

  9. B-309

    The coat of arms on Georgian Wikipedia

    A 31 October 2016 own-work upload by user აკაკი ბერიძე, shown on two Wikipedia pages and carried by Wikidata item Q31354660 ('Georgian noble family') as its P94 coat-of-arms image, so it reaches every Wikidata consumer. There is no historical Beridze coat of arms; the 1922 Кавказский Гербовник's silence is a fact about rank (aznauri, not tavadi), not a lost document.

  10. B-310

    Forebears' "96% Orthodox"

    A modelled guess that ignores the Muslim Adjaran majority of bearers. Ignore. Its salary and "United Russias" widgets are noise.

  11. B-311

    The Zesopeli church as "the Beridzes' family church"

    A YouTube label with no documentary standing (K27).

  12. B-312

    „იაგორ ბერიძე — სამეფო კარის ტახტის აზნაური" as evidence the family were throne aznaurs

    Refers to one man under Russian rule.

  13. B-313

    Every Adjaran three-brother legend as a Beridze legend

    At ახო the oldest surname by tradition is ნაკაშიძე, and its three-brother tale (გურძაი, კუჭულაი, სამუნაი) is not attached to the Beridzes.