ილია ჭავჭავაძე ქართველი ერის წარმოშობის შესახებ
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2017
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Ilia Chavchavadze had been dealing with the problems of origination and
evolution of Georgian nation in his publications frequently. His views have
been formed on the basis of data of Georgian history and Russian-European
theoretical heritage.
According to Ilia’s thought-out, the nation was a unity that had been
created over the centuries. The Georgian nation seemed to be the result of
gradual union of kindred Georgian tribes speaking in one language, their
significant features and settlement areas.
On the basis of merging these three components, Ilia Chavchavadze has
formed definition for the nation: “special people, tribal origins, nation
consists of all the features together that distinguish them from other
people, and the conditions in which it has lived. In this case one homeland
language and country perhaps have much more sense than other features,
but no doubt that besides these factors the following has a great
importance in order to distinguish one nation from another: common
history of all the children of this people, a kind of character, temper,
custom, a kind of wit and mind direction, almost the same cloth and etc.
and etc.”
However, at what period of history did the Georgian nation form?
According to Ilia’s thought-out, this should have happened in the early middle
ages - in the epoch of spreading and establishing Christianity. Christian religion
has strengthened the tendency of the unity and played a role of “mortared stone”
in the unity of Georgians.
Ilia Chavchavadze does not deny any major changes in Europe, Russia
and Georgia as a result of the development of capitalism. He frequently wrote
about the current process of awakening the nations in Europe, unification of
Italy or East Europe Slavs. These people have been formed as nations in XIX
century. However, according to Ilia’s position, there were the so called “historical
nations,” i.e. the nations having “historical nationality” – they were nations in
earlier centuries.
According to Ilia Chachavadze’s substantiation, Georgian nation seemed
to be such a historical nation.
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ილია ჭავჭავაძე, ეთნოგენეზი, ერი
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის საქართველოს ისტორიის ინსტიტუტის შრომები, XII, თბილისი, 2017, გვ. 249-270 / Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Institute of Georgian History Proceedings, XII, Tbilisi, 2017, pp. 249-270