Davit Oniashvili

{{short description|Georgian politician}}

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|name = Davit Oniashvili

|native_name = {{native name|ka|დავით ონიაშვილი|italics=no}}

|image = Oniashvili D.jpg

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|birth_date = {{birth date|1883|12|22|df=y}}

|birth_place = Khidistavi, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire

|death_date = {{death date and age|1937|07|14|1883|12|22|df=y}}

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|nationality = Georgian

|party = Social Democratic Party of Georgia

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Davit Oniashvili ({{lang-ka|დავით ონიშვილი}}; 22 December 1883 – 14 July 1937) was a Georgian politician, active in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. He served in the Georgian parliament and as the Minister of Agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921). Prior to that he introduced the order that led to the declaration of independence of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic on 22 April 1918.{{harvnb|Hovannisian|1969|p=162}} He was arrested in 1937 during the Great Purge and shot.{{harvnb|Mchedishvili|2012}}

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  • {{Citation|last=Hovannisian|first=Richard G.|year=1969|title=Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, California|oclc=175119194}}
  • {{Citation|last=Mchedishvili|first=David A.|title=დავით ონიაშვილი|trans-title=davit oniashvili|year=2012|publisher=The Biographical Dictionary of Georgia|url=http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/en/00011880/|accessdate=13 December 2020}}

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Category:1883 births

Category:1937 deaths

Category:20th-century politicians from Georgia (country)

Category:Democratic Republic of Georgia

Category:Independence activists from Georgia (country)

Category:Mensheviks

Category:People from Tiflis Governorate

Category:Great Purge victims from Georgia (country)