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    Tbilisi (redirect from Tiflis)
    tə-bil-EE-see, tə-BIL-iss-ee; Georgian: თბილისი, pronounced [ˈtʰbilisi] ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis (/ˈtɪflɪs/ TIF-liss)...
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    Dzhugashvili. Born in Racha, in western Georgia, Svanidze eventually moved to Tiflis with her two sisters and brother, and worked as a seamstress. Her brother...
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    The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, also known as the Erivansky Square expropriation, was an armed robbery on 26 June 1907[a] in the city of Tiflis (present-day...
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  • turned into a Latin titular see until its ultimate suppression. It was established on 9 August 1329 as the Diocese of Tiflis (Latin: Tephlisen(sis) or Tiphlitana)...
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    the city and attended school there before moving to Tiflis (modern-day Tbilisi) to join the Tiflis Seminary. While a student at the seminary he embraced...
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    charge from the governor of the Tiflis Governorate, provided the theater would belong to the city. The foundations of The Tiflis Imperial Theater were laid...
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    Besarion Jughashvili (category People from Tiflis Governorate)
    he cut off contact and financial support when Ioseb left Tiflis. Soon after Ioseb left Tiflis, Jughashvili seems to have left the Adelkhanov factory. He...
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    Kamo (Bolshevik) (category People from Tiflis Governorate)
    After being expelled, Kamo was sent off to Tiflis to enter the seminary as his grandfather had desired. In Tiflis, Ter-Petrosian met Joseph Stalin (real name...
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    Keke Geladze (category People from Tiflis Governorate)
    was not Ioseb's father. In 1884 Jughashvili left the family and moved to Tiflis, returning to his old job at the Adelkhanov factory. He sent some money...
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  • Demetrius of Tiflis or Demetrio da Tifliz was a 14th-century Christian layman and martyr from Georgia or Armenia. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic...
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  • founded in Tiflis. 1894 – Supreme Court of Georgia building built. 1897 Garrison Cathedral built. Population: 159,862. 1899 – Alexandropol-Tiflis railway...
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    Tiflis, where he lived quietly and wrote a series of memoirs about the war on the Caucasus Campaign from 1914 to 1918. Nazarbekian remained in Tiflis...
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  • horse to ride back to Tiflis. But he has only three days before the seven years are up, and it is at least three months to Tiflis. Everything looks hopeless...
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    heart if you have seen the Caucasus." He returned to Russia and settled in Tiflis, the largest city of the Caucasus and the cultural center of Armenians of...
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    Muradbekian (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Մուրադբեկեան) was born on December 8, 1873, in Tiflis. In 1883 he began his education at the Nersisian Seminary in his hometown...
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    active in the capitals of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Tiflis. In January 1904, he was forced to leave Tiflis, where he had helped organise a strike on the Transcaucasian...
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    was further consolidated, the Viceroyalty gaining greater power in 1845. Tiflis (now Tbilisi), which had been the capital of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti...
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    Aram Khachaturian (category People from Tiflis Governorate)
    1903 in the city of Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia) into an Armenian family. Some sources indicate Kojori, a village near Tiflis, as his birthplace...
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    ავლაბარი Neighborhood of Isani District Flag Avlabari The map of Tiflis in 1914. You can see Avlabari district in right down part of the map. Coordinates:...
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    months after Dzhugashvili's birth, his father was involved in a high-profile Tiflis bank robbery, and the three of them fled to Baku to avoid arrest. They rented...
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    календарь на 1910 год [Caucasian calendar for 1910] (in Russian) (65th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1910. p. 210...
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    within the Russian Empire and connected the city to nearby Alexandropol and Tiflis, with a wartime, narrow-gauge extension running to Erzurum. Turkey's border...
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    Adana Antioch İzmir Trabzon Azerbaijan Baku Shamakhi Barda Georgia Tbilisi (Tiflis) Batumi (Batoum) Poti Armenia Yerevan Lebanon Tyre Syria Aleppo Tartus Homs...
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    on 11 December 1910 after less than three years as Catholicos. Born in Tiflis, he studied between 1865 and 1868 at the classical gymnasium in his hometown...
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    literature in Tiflis in the mid-nineteenth century, along with his Ganja-native teacher Mirza Shafi Vazeh. Both died and were buried in Tiflis. The first...
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    Caucasus. The expansion of Batumi began with the construction of the Batumi–Tiflis–Baku Transcaucasus Railway (completed in 1883), and the Baku–Batumi pipeline...
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    Governorate from 1840 to 1846, and finally divided into the governorates of Tiflis and Kutaisi. The northern border of these territories roughly corresponds...
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    Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (category People from Tiflis Governorate)
    of Emperor Nicholas II and advisor to him. Alexander was born in Tiflis, in the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Georgia). He was...
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    Paul's reaction, see McGrew (1992), 314. For more details, see Haukeil, 366. For information on the military side of these measures, see McGrew (1992),...
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    system in cooperation with Meta Platforms based on the Amber Alert, named "Tifli Moukhtafi" (lit. 'my child is missing'). The alerts are distributed via...
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