Gurieli გურიელი | |
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Nobility | |
Coat of arms of the Gurieli royal dynasty | |
Parent house | House of Vardanisdze |
Country | Georgia |
Titles |
The House of Gurieli (Georgian: გურიელი) was a Georgian princely (mtavari) family and a ruling dynasty (dukes) of the southwestern Georgian province of Guria, which was autonomous and later, for a few centuries, independent. A few ducal rulers of the dynasty also rose in the 17th-18th centuries to be kings of the whole western Caucasus in place of the hereditary Bagrationi kings of Imereti.