Dadian family

Dadian family

The Dadian family was an Ottoman Armenian family that was famous for their industrial activities within the Ottoman Empire. Besides being prominent factory owners (the family had a monopoly on the empire's gunpowder industry for more than a century), members of the family also served as political advisers. Georgian-Mingrelian Princley family of Dadiani that was under the Russian rule known in three forms Dadiani / Dadian / Dadianov are not related to the latter family.