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Definition: Tbilisi |
TbilisiNoun1. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Capital of Georgia. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tbilisi (Georgian თბილისი) is the capital city of Georgia, located on the Kura river. The city has more than 1.25 million inhabitants. The Russian name for Tbilisi, sometimes also seen in Western texts, is Tiflis.
The origins of the city are probably from the 4th century BCE. The city has been the capital of several Georgian states through history, but has also been occupied by many foreign rulers, including Arabs and Turks. In 1801, it came under Russian control. After the Russian Revolution, Georgia was briefly independent, and Tbilisi functioned as the capital city. It remained the capital city of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, and later the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, after its incorporation in the Soviet Union The city was restored as the Georgian capital after the country's 1991 independence.
Georgians pronounce Tbilisi with a barely-spoken 't', so that it almost sounds like "Bill-EE-see"; English speakers often mispronounce it like "Tib-LEE-see", but this is incorrect.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tbilisi."
Synonym: TbilisiSynonym: capital of Georgia (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tbilisi 1500 tslisaa (1959) | |
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Children | Georgia | Outside of Tbilisi, no such facilities exist. (references) |
Georgia | For example, in August 2000, the police detained an 11-year old boy in Tbilisi who was trying to sell a sheet of aluminum. (references) | |
Georgia | It is estimated that there are more than 2,500 street children in Tbilisi due to the inability of orphanages and the Government to provide support. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Georgia | Those in Tbilisi are paid their stipends more frequently then those elsewhere in the country. (references) |
Georgia | Shortly thereafter the Procurator questioned Father Mkalavishvili and released him on his own recognizance with the understanding that he was not to leave Tbilisi. (references) | |
Georgia | On April 17, Jehovah's Witnesses representative Arno Tungler was denied an entry visa at Tbilisi Airport, despite having an official accreditation from the Ministry of Justice. (references) | |
Economic History | Georgia | A special patent court in Tbilisi reviews applications. (references) |
Georgia | Relations between the leadership of Ajara and Tbilisi are strained. (references) | |
Georgia | The German firm OTTO markets products through their local affiliates in Tbilisi. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | On June 7, unknown persons abducted Charbel Aoun, a Lebanese businessman, in Tbilisi. (references) |
Georgia | Aoun's release followed the forced resignation of the controversial Tbilisi police chief. (references) | |
Georgia | On May 7, unknown persons abducted Parliamentarian Petre Tsiskarishvili and his fiancée in Tbilisi. (references) | |
Minorities | Georgia | On June 17, approximately 60 "Basilists" attacked a prayer meeting in Tbilisi, and reportedly injured Giorgi Kiknavelidze, an economist. (references) |
Georgia | Attacks routinely were reported in Tbilisi and throughout the country, and the frequency and intensity of these attacks increased during the year. (references) | |
Georgia | On July 11, Basilists forcibly entered a Tbilisi apartment building and attacked a Christian bible study group--mostly women and children--with clubs and metal pips. (references) | |
Trade | Georgia | The fund opened regional offices in Tbilisi and Baku in 1999. (references) |
Georgia | Some Georgian banks accept and issue credit cards, although very few other locations in Tbilisi currently accept credit cards. (references) | |
Georgia | The Bank has invested in the refurbishment of Tbilisi Airport; provided loans to the Georgian Glass and Mineral Water Co.; and signed a project to introduce a fresh wholesale marketing and distribution system. (references) | |
Travel | Georgia | A taxicab ride from the airport to the center of Tbilisi should cost USD 10-20. (references) |
Georgia | Travelers should take the same precautions in Tbilisi they would take in any large city. (references) | |
Georgia | However, the Internet is almost completely unavailable outside of Tbilisi and two or three other major cities. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Georgia | In 2000 a delegation from the ICFTU held a joint conference with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the ATUG in Tbilisi. (references) |
Georgia | Some workers, including teachers in the Imereti region, employees of various mining, winemaking, pipeline and port facilities, and the Tbilisi municipal government reportedly complained of being intimidated or threatened by employers for union organizing activity. (references) | |
Georgia | There are two trade unions in addition to the ATUG: The Free Trade Union of Teachers of Georgia "Solidarity" (FTUTGS) based in Kutaisi; and the Independent Trade Union of Metropolitan Employees which was formed in Tbilisi in 2000. During 2000 the ATUG supported public sector strikes by teachers, medical service employees, and energy sector workers, most of which were wildcat actions. (references) | |
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| "Tbilisi" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tbilisi" is used about 142 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 142 | 26,554 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "Tbilisi": Sukhumi-tbilisi. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tbilisi georgia | 274 |
tbilisi | 160 |
tbilisi hotel | 11 |
chat tbilisi | 6 |
picture tbilisi | 4 |
map tbilisi | 3 |
dinamo tbilisi | 3 |
old tbilisi | 3 |
photo tbilisi | 3 |
agro tbilisi | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tbilisi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ilisitbay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-i-i-l-s-t" | |
-3 letters: bits, ibis, libs, list, lits, silt, slit, tils. | |
-4 letters: bis, bit, its, lib, lis, lit, sib, sit, til, tis. | |
-5 letters: bi, is, it, li, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-i-i-l-s-t" | |
+2 letters: abilities, biblicist. | |
+3 letters: albinistic, biblicists, bibliotics, bibliotist, debilities, disability, fusibility, labilities, mobilities, nobilities, nubilities, risibility, sibilating, sibilation, subtilisin, visibility. | |
+4 letters: arabilities, bibliotists, biologistic, edibilities, equilibrist, feasibility, fishability, idioblastic, inabilities, instability, liabilities, libertinism, lubricities, miscibility, obliquities, possibility, publicities, sensibility, sibilations, sociability, stabilities, stabilizing, suabilities, sublimities, subtilisins, subtilizing, suitability, usabilities, viabilities. | |
+5 letters: abolitionism, abolitionist, actabilities, advisability, affabilities, amiabilities, audibilities, bestialities, bestializing, bibliopegist, bibliopolist, bimodalities, bipedalities, bipolarities, capabilities, curabilities, cutabilities, desirability, disabilities, divisibility, durabilities, dyeabilities, equabilities, equilibrists, friabilities, fusibilities, ignobilities, imbecilities, immobilities, indigestible, infusibility, insolubility, insurability, intervisible, invisibility, irascibility, irresistible, irresistibly, legibilities, liberalistic, liberalities, libertinisms, likabilities, livabilities, lovabilities, movabilities, muliebrities, mutabilities, notabilities, plausibility, pliabilities, potabilities, risibilities, salabilities, sewabilities, solubilities, stainability, tenabilities, tibiofibulas, tunabilities, visibilities, volubilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 62 69 6C 69 73 69 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- -... .. .-.. .. ... .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T b i l i s i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0062 0069 006C 0069 0073 0069 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54687578758575 |
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