Tbilisi (geo)

Tbilisi

Tbilisi ranks 54th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Houston, Warsaw, and Melbourne. Memorable people born in Tbilisi include Aram Khachaturian, Tamar of Georgia, and Tigran Petrosian. Memorable people who died in Tbilisi include Eduard Shevardnadze, Djemal Pasha, 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 the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people. Tbilisi was founded in the 5th 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 Imperial Viceroy, governing both Southern and Northern Caucasus. Read more on Wikipedia