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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 509 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TELAV , a See also:

town of See also:Russian See also:Transcaucasia, in the See also:government of See also:Tiflis, 63 m. N.E. of the town of Tiflis, on the See also:river Alazan and at an See also: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 of Kakhetia, and has ruins of old forts. In the neighbourhood are the Ikaltoi monastery (6th See also:century), the Shuanty monastery (16th century), and the originally loth century Alaverdi See also:church, visited by many pilgrims. See also:Wine is exported.

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