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Tiflis

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/ 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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Working as a laundress, she earned enough money to be able to send him to a parish school, later entered him in the Orthodox Theological Seminary 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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Koba escaped from Siberia, traveled hundreds of miles by peasant cart, suffered frostbite, and arrived back in Tiflis.

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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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All hope of practical self-government under Russian protection now ceased, and the Armenians of Tiflis turned their attention to Turkish Armenia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

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