Historical place profile
Tbilisi
Tbilisi, the modern capital of Georgia, was the ancient Tiflīs and was founded in A.D. 455 or 458 when the capital of Georgia was transferred from Mtsk̲h̲eta.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:863903
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:863903
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 41.717722, 44.780570
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Tbilisi, the modern capital of Georgia, was the ancient Tiflīs and was founded in A.D. 455 or 458 when the capital of Georgia was transferred from Mtsk̲h̲eta.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 88 C3 Tbilisi
Source and reuse
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Research path
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