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Headquartered at Tiflis, the viceroys acted as de facto ambassadors to neighboring countries, commanders in chief of the armed forces, and the supreme civil authority, mostly responsible only to the Tsar.
Tiflis Governorate [a] was a province of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative centre in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi). In 1897, it constituted 44,607 square kilometres (17,223 sq mi) in area and had a population of 1,051,032 inhabitants. [1]
Between 1801 and 1917, then part of the Russian Empire, Tiflis was the seat of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, governing both the northern and the southern parts of the Caucasus. [8] [9]
Jul 3, 2024 · Tiflis, as it is known in Persian, was likely founded by the Sassanid Dynasty sometime in the 4th or 5th century as a fortress guarding the southern end of the Daryal Pass, the great mountain chasm cutting through the Caucasus that connects the world of the steppes to the Middle East.
Nov 1, 2023 · The letters allegedly came from Ghazi Muhammad (1833–1902), the oldest surviving son of Imam Shamil (1797–1871), who had led fierce resistance against Russian expansion in the Caucasus before his surrender in 1859.
Russian officials in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), the capital of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, were perplexed but not surprised by such a request. In the late tsarist era, hundreds of individuals and families living in the South Caucasus asked to change their faith.
Aug 10, 2023 · Tiflis Gubernia [province] was one of the gubernias in the Caucasus Viceroyalty. It was established as a gubernia in 1846, and abolished in 1917. This gubernia roughly covers central and southeastern Georgia, the partially recognized state of South Ossetia, most of the Lori Province of Armenia, small parts of northwestern Azerbaijan, and a ...
