Batoni (title)

Batoni (Georgian: ბატონი) is a Georgian word for "lord", or "master". It is derived from patroni (პატრონი), the earlier term of similar meaning, and appears in common usage in the 15th century.

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References

  1. Toumanoff, Cyril (1949–51). The Fifteenth-Century Bagratids and the Institution of Collegial Sovereignty in Georgia. Traditio 7: 216.
  2. Jones, Stephen F. (2005), Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917, p. 195. Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-01902-4.
  3. Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), The Making of the Georgian Nation, pp. 42-3. Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3
  4. Braun, Friederike (1998), Terms of address: problems of patterns and usage in various languages and cultures, pp. 106-113. Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 0-89925-432-2
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