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The Tumanishvili (Armenian: Թումանյան; Georgian: თუმანიშვილი; Russian: Туманишви́ли), later Russianized as Toumanov or Toumanoff (Russian: Тума́нов) was a Georgian noble (tavadi) family of Armenian origin.
History
The family has its roots in the ancient Armenian noble dynasty of the Mamikonians (Mamikonids), One branch of the family, the Toumaniani, belonged to the Armenian Church; the other branch, the Toumanishvili, was Greek Orthodox.
The two Mamikonid princely Houses of Georgia (and later the Russian Empire) are the Liparitids and the T’umanids. The former appeared in Iberia c. 876 and was invested with the office of High Constable of Georgia. It returned, to Armenia in 1177, or possibly even earlier and reigned as the Third Dynasty of Siunik from c. 1200 to the mid-fifteenth century. The other house of T’umanids, moved back to Georgia from Cilicia after the twelfth century and adopted the last name Toumanishvili. They were acknowledged by the Kings of Georgia as tavadi (princes), and received hereditary rank as the King's "mdivanbeg" (counselor or vizier).
The Tumanishvili family was on the list of Georgian princes that was attached to the Treaty of Georgievsk concluded with the Georgian King Erekle II on July 24, 1783 and on recognized on the Russian Empire's list of princely families in December 1850.