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TIFLIS, a government of Russian Transcaucasia, occupying the eastern portion of the great valley which stretches between the main Caucasus range and the Armenian highlands, from the Meskes Mountains eastward, and extending up into the higher regions on both no ...

... h under his pupil Mihail Ishtvanovitch they printed the first Georgian Gospels (Tiflis, 1709). A man of great oratorical power, Anthim delivered a series of sermons (Didahii), and some of his pastoral letters are models of style and of language as well as of e ...

... length. The achenes (fruits) are brown and hairy, and are crowned by a tuft of stiflish hairs (pappus). The rootstock of A. montana is tough, slender, of a dark brown colour and an inch or .two in length. It gives off numerous simple roots from its under side, ...

... d Ufa-Chelyabinsk) and that of the road across the Caucasus from Vladikavkaz to Tiflis, sign-posts, with the name Europe on one side, Asia on the other, mark this boundary. 1 fifth edition, vol. ii. pp. 24-25. 4 Pt. i. pp. 11-12. ' Griesbach, on the strength o ...

... undaccar von Suttner (1850-1902), and for the next nine years lived with him at Tiflis in the Caucasus. After 1885 she resided at Schloss Harmansdorf, near Eggenburg, in Lower Austria. The Baroness von Suttner, a fertile writer, has produced numerous tales, bo ...

... high places, led him to enter the army. He passed the necessary examination at Tiflis, and joined the artillery in the autumn of the year. At that time Russia was much disturbed by the lawlessness of the Caucasian races. Bands of Circassians were constantly o ...