Noe Zhordania Politician

Noe Zhordania (also transliterated as Jordania; Georgian: ნოე ჟორდანია; Russian: Ной Никола́евич Жорда́ния) (14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1868 (according to other sources: 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1869) – January 11, 1953) was a Georgian journalist and Menshevik (social democratic) politician. He played an eminent role in the socialist revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire, and later chaired the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from July 24, 1918 until March 18, 1921, when the Bolshevik Russian Red Army invasion of Georgia forced him into exile to France. There Zhordania led the government-in-exile until his death in 1953.

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Noe Zhordania
Birth dateJanuary 02, 1868
Birth place
Kutaisi , Russian Empire , Guria , Lanchkhuti
Nationality
Georgians
Religion
Eastern Orthodox Church
Date of deathJanuary 11, 1953
Place of death
Paris , France , Île-de-France
Resting place
Leuville Cemetery , France , Île-de-France , Leuville-sur-Orge

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