Tiflis Governorate (geo)

Tiflis Governorate

Tiflis Governorate ranks 4,940th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sparks, Nevada, Las Arenas, and Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. Memorable people born in Tiflis Governorate include Vazha-Pshavela, Mikheil Javakhishvili, and Ghazaros Aghayan. Tiflis Governorate has been the birth place of many writers. Tiflis Governorate is located in Georgia.

Tiflis Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative centre in Tiflis. In 1897, it constituted 44,607 square kilometres (17,223 sq mi) in area and had a population of 1,051,032 inhabitants. Tiflis Governorate bordered Elizavetpol Governorate to the southeast, Erivan Governorate to the south, Kars Oblast to the southwest, Batum Oblast to the west, Kutaisi Governorate to the northwest, Terek Oblast to the north, Dagestan Oblast to the northeast, and after 1905, the Zakatal Okrug to the east. The governorate covered areas of central and southeastern Georgia, the partially recognised state of South Ossetia, most of the Lori Province of Armenia, small parts of northwestern Azerbaijan, and a minuscule southern part of Ingushetia of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia