Tiflis province (Geographic Playing Card)
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Title:
Tiflis province
Subject:
Regional Diversity
Creator:
Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov
Source:
Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)
Publisher:
Library of Congress; Russian National Library
Date:
1856
Rights:
Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
Language:
Russian
Region:
Caucasus
Capital:
Tbilisi
Area (sq. miles):
2,846
Population:
no notation
Population density:
unknown
Ethnicity of inhabitants:
Tatars, Lezgins, Georgians
Economic activities:
orchardry, crop farming, sericulture, cattle farming, production of paper goods, tobacco, and madder
Trade:
Trade is conducted extremely actively.
Notable features:
Fortresses: Tifliskaia and New Zakataly. Within the boundaries of Tiflis province there are 4 districts [okrug]: Gorskii, Osetinskii, Tushino-Pshavo Khevsurskii, and Velokanskii. In 1826, on September 19th, Russians secured a victory under the leadership of Count Paskevich Erivanskii over Abas Mirza.
Climate:
no notation
Card #:
76