Niko I Dadiani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Georgian prince and Russian Army general
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Place of Birth: Zugdidi, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
About Niko I Dadiani
- Nikoloz "Niko" Dadiani (Georgian: ??????? "????" ???????), or Nikolay Davidovich Dadian-Mingrelsky (Russian: ??????? ????????? ??????-????????????; 4 January 1847 – 23 January 1903), was the last Prince of Mingrelia from 1853 to 1867.
- Of the House of Dadiani, one of the leading Georgian noble families, he succeeded on the death of his father, David Dadiani, but he never ruled in his own right; during his minority, the government was run by regency presided by his mother, Princess Ekaterina, and in 1857, Mingrelia was placed under a provisional Russian administration.
- In 1867, Dadiani formally abdicated the throne and Mingrelia was directly incorporated into the Russian Empire.
- Dadiani mostly lived in Saint Petersburg, being close to the court.
- He was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), and retired with the rank of major-general.
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