Category:Diasamidze

Diasamidze was a Georgian noble family known from 1443. The family held a fiefdom around Aspindza in Samtskhe (southern Georgia), and later acquired the former possessions of the houses of Abuserisdze and Khursidze. After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia, they allied with the kings of Kartli, namely Luarsab I in 1548, in their effort to prevent Samtskhe from being lost to the Saffavid dynasty of Iran. Under the Russian rule, the Diasamidze were recognized as knyaz of the Russian Empire according to the decree of 1850.