Social:Mepe (title)

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One of the Georgian monarchs, mepe Bagrat III of Georgia.

Mepe (Georgian: მეფე, Template:IPA-ka) is a title used to designate the Georgian monarch,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] whether it is a King or a Queen regnant. The word is derived from Georgian word "me-u-pe" which literally means sovereign and lord. Even though mepe has a female equivalent, დედოფალი (dedopali, literally meaning queen) it is only applied to the king's consort and does not have a meaning of a ruling monarch.[8]

Later, after David IV, the official title of Georgian kings became "mepet mepe" (king of kings), similar to Persian Shahanshah.

See also

  • Eristavi
  • Batoni
  • Batonishvili
  • Aznauri
  • Mtavari
  • List of Georgian monarchs

References

  1. Georgia, Tim Burford, p15
  2. Law in Medieval Russia, Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge, p331
  3. Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages, Georgij A. Klimov, p120
  4. Syntactic Analysis and Description: A Constructional Approach, David Lockwood, p214
  5. Stability, Variation, and Change of Word-order Patterns Over Time, Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe, Ariel Shisha-Halevy, p158
  6. Women's Movements: Networks and Debates in Post-communist Countries in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Edith Saurer, Margareth Lanzinger, Elisabeth Frysak, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2006, p65
  7. Studies in Relational Grammar, Volume 2, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, p276
  8. Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia, Antony Eastmond, p109