TIFLIS

TIFLIS, capital of a mountainous, forest-clad government, abolished in 1917 when the Democratic Republic of Georgia was founded, of the same name and of Russian Caucasia, on the Kar, 165 m. SE. of the Black Sea; is a city of considerable antiquity and note, and owes much to-day to the energy of the Russians, who annexed it in 1802; noted for its silver and other metal work.