| Rabia Sharvashidze | |
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| Succeeded by | Solomon I |
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Rabia Sharvazhidze (Georgian რაბია, Abkhaz Рабиа) was the second ruling prince of the Principality of Abkhazia and a member of the House of Sharvashidze. He ruled from circa 1451 to 1465.
Not much about his life is known. He was mentioned in a letter by King George VIII to Philip the Good in 1459 regarding the Georgian coalition against the Ottoman Empire.
References
- Chikovani, Yuri (2007). Род абхазских князей Шервашидзе [Abkhazian princes of the Shervashidze Family] (in Russian). Tbilisi. pp. 11, 35–96. ISBN 978-99928-0-964-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Anchabadze, Zurab (1959). Из истории средневековой Абхазии (VI—XVII века) [The History of Medieval Abkhazia (Sixth to Seventeenth Centuries)] (in Russian). pp. 253–312.