Гелова́ни-Дадешкелиани---княжеский род, владетели Сванетии.
Существует родословная легенда об их происхождении из Мекки, из рода хранителей священного чёрного камня — Каабы.
The local Svanetian tradition holds it that the Gelovani arrived in the early Mediaeval Age from the Arabian peninsula, where they had been the keepers of the sacred Black Stone of Kaaba before the era of Islam. The etymological provenance of the surname appears to confirm this as GLVAN means "stone" in the old Svanetian language (note that "-ani" means "the son of" - similar to other Indo-Aryan languages, eg Punjabi language).

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