ბერიძეებს, თავდაპირველად, ყველას ,,ზანდარიენთ” უწოდებდნენ, მერე, როცა გამრავლდნენ, სხვადასხვა, ე.წ ჯიშებად დაიყვნენ, რომლებსაც დღეს უწოდებენ გიგოლიენთ, სოსანიენთ, ხუშუტიენთ, ალაჯიენთ, ყარათლიენთ, ჩოლაღიენთ და, დღეს მხოლოდ რამდენიმე ოჯახია, რომლებსაც ისევ ზანდარიენთ უძახიან.
rendering, not the wording of the record
The Beridzes were at first all called "Zandarient"; later, when they multiplied, they split into different so-called breeds (jishebi), which today are called Gigolient, Sosanient, Khushutient, Alajient, Qaratlient, Cholaghient, and today there are only a few families that are still called Zandarient.
Claims
- B-013 D tradition mentions
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.
- B-103 D tradition mentions
The 2022 ერკოტა telling (the criminal-turned-monk, the „ერის კოტაობა" games, the Varneti bride)
Living folklore, recorded 29 Oct 2022 from შოთა ერასტის ძე ბერიძე, 75. Valuable as folklore and for the lineage names it preserves.
Beridze, a history of the surname · Passage A.37 · beridze.info/en/passages/a-37 · Source: https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/bitstream/1234/426266/1/Aspindis_Siaxleni_2022_N9.pdf (accessed 2026-10-01)a-37 · last updated 2026-10-01 · send a correction