TELAV  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

• TRANSCAUCASIA

Transcaucasia, in the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of See also:

• TIFLIS

Tiflis, 63 m . N.E. of the town of Tiflis, on the See also:

• RIVER

river Alazan and at an See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 2420 ft . Pop . (1897) 11,81o, chiefly Armenians (9000) and Georgians (2000) . Telav is a very old town, founded in 893, and until 1797 it was the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of Kakhetia, and has ruins of old forts . In the neighbourhood are the Ikaltoi monastery (6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century), the Shuanty monastery (16th century), and the originally loth century Alaverdi See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, visited by many pilgrims . See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

Wine is exported .