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Tiflis

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/ tɪfˈliːs /

noun

  1. transliteration of the Russian name for Tbilisi

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Why, then, had he left his wife and two sons in Tiflis?

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In Tiflis, he and his wife asked directions of a Russian woman.

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Tiflis newspapers exposed such "grave economic crimes" as "embezzlement of socialist property," "windows and doors that have fallen to pieces," "bedbugs breeding in our hotels."

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He got a job at Tiflis Geophysical Observatory and the group began holding secret meetings in his room.

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E. of Tiflis, there is a thick bed of the pure salt about 5 ft. below the surface, and at Balalpashinsk there are lakes or ponds the waters of which are an almost pure solution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various