Tbilisi (geo)

Tbilisi

Tbilisi ranks 43rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Detroit, Oslo, and Belgrade. Memorable people born in Tbilisi include Aram Khachaturian, Tigran Petrosian, and Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Memorable people who died in Tbilisi include Eduard Shevardnadze, Niko Pirosmani, and David IV of Georgia. Tbilisi has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Tbilisi is located in Georgia.

Tbilisi, in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people. Tbilisi was founded in the fifth century AD by Vakhtang I of Iberia, and since then has served as the capital of various Georgian kingdoms and republics. 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. Read more on Wikipedia