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Tiflis

British  
/ tɪfˈliːs /

noun

  1. transliteration of the Russian name for Tbilisi

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One is a Russian Army, estimated 200,000 strong, based on Tiflis and stationed throughout one of Russia's favorite training grounds, the Kura River valley.

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

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He became a strike agitator among Tiflis railroad men, but was soon run down by Czarist police, jailed and deported to Siberia.

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At 22, he was ordained priest, and two years later went back to Russia, then in the throes of the revolution, where he served two years as pastor in Tiflis.

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I saw the Arabian traveler, Palgrave, at Trebizond, and Baron Nicolay, the civil governor of the Caucasus, at Tiflis.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley

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