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Tiflis Governorate[a] was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative centre in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi). In 1897, it constituted 44,607 square kilometres (17,223 sq mi) in area and had a population of 1,051,032 inhabitants. [1]
Headquartered at Tiflis, the viceroys acted as de facto ambassadors to neighboring countries, commanders in chief of the armed forces, and the supreme civil authority, mostly responsible only to the Tsar.
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Tiflis Gubernia [province] was one of the gubernias in the Caucasus Viceroyalty. It was established as a guberniain 1846, and abolished in 1917. This gubernia roughly covers central and southeastern Georgia, the partially recognized state of South Ossetia, most of the Lori Province of Armenia, small parts of northwestern Azerbaijan, and a minuscule...
Before jumping into records for this province, you MUST know the name of the village in which your ancestor lived. Once you have the name of a village you believe was located in this province, take the following steps: 1. Identify the standard spelling of the town using a gazetteer. (See the Tiflis Gubernia Gazetteers page.) 2. Use the gazetteer an...
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Between 1801 and 1917, then part of the Russian Empire, Tiflis was the seat of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, governing both the northern and the southern parts of the Caucasus. [8] [9]
Jul 3, 2024 · Tiflis, as it is known in Persian, was likely founded by the Sassanid Dynasty sometime in the 4th or 5th century as a fortress guarding the southern end of the Daryal Pass, the great mountain chasm cutting through the Caucasus that connects the world of the steppes to the Middle East.
The Borchaly uezd[a] was a county (uezd) of the Tiflis Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, and later of the independent and Soviet republics of Georgia. Its administrative center was the town of Shulavery (present-day Shaumiani). [1] The area of the county roughly corresponded to the contemporary Lori Province of ...
Nineteenth-century Tiflis was dominated not only by Russian imperial bureaucrats but also an Armenian bourgeoisie. A minority—about 30 percent of the urban population—and often seen as an underclass, Georgians nonetheless considered Tiflis the ‘mother of cities,’ the seat of Georgian history and heritage (Suny 2009, 17).
