19th–20th c. · aged 31 at the interrogation of 23 March 1920

Samson Nikolozis dze Beridze

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Villager of Erkota, married, aged 31 when Jinchveladze, commissar of the Uravel society, questioned the villagers on 23 March 1920 about the events of 1918-1919 (protocol in the Central State Archive, fond 11, file 217, pp. 16-17, printed abridged by Marine Beridze 2005; passage a-541). He says the local Muslims of the Uravel and Idumala societies forced the Christians of Erkota to leave their homes and flee towards Georgia in March 1918, and that what they left was plundered. The testimony heading reads '(1923' in the OCR although the protocol is dated 1920 in the book's text. sweep 3 A dspace.nplg.gov.ge