Sunday, June 2, 2013

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

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The National Botanical Garden of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს ეროვნული ბოტანიკური ბაღი), formerly the Tbilisi Botanical Garden (თბილისის ბოტანიკური ბაღი) is located in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, and lie in the Tsavkisis-Tskali Gorge on the southern foothills of the Sololaki Range (a spur of the Trialeti Range). It occupies the area of 161 hectares and possesses a collection of over 4,500 taxonomic groups.
Its history spans more than three centuries. It was first described, in 1671, by the French traveler Jean Chardin as royal gardens which might have been founded at least in 1625 and were variably referred to as "fortress gardens" or "Seidabad gardens" later in history. The gardens appear in the records by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1701) and on the Tbilisi map composed by Prince Vakhushti (1735). Pillaged in the Persian invasion of 1795, the garden was revived in the early 19th century and officially established as the Tiflis Botanical Garden in 1845.
From 1888 on, when a floristics center was set up, several notable scholars have worked for the Garden. Between 1896 and 1904, the Garden was expanded further westward. Between 1932 and 1958, the territory around the former Muslim cemetery was included in the botanical garden. Several graves have survived, however, including that of the prominent Azerbaijaniwriter Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812-1878). The central entrance to the Garden is located at the foothills of the Narikala Fortress. The other, cut through the rock as a long tunnel in 1909-14, had been functional until the mid-2000s when the tunnel was converted into Georgia’s largest nightclub"Gvirabi".

References


  • (Georgian) "საქართველოს ძველი ქალაქები: თბილისი", 2006 წ. მეორე გამოცემა. ISBN 99940-0-923-0
  • Jimšer Kereseliże, M. L. Loriia, Manana Elbakiże (2001), Tbilisi Botanic Garden 365. Central Botanical Garden, ISBN 99928-899-8-5.

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Tbilisi Botanical Garden and the ruins of Narikala



Photo by Jason Rosenberg
Title: Tbilisi Botanical Garden and the ruins of Narikala
Date Picture Taken: April 28, 2012, 10:25:12 
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Botanical_Garden_of_Georgia

Institute of Botany and Herbarium in Botanical Garden, Tbilisi



























Photo by Jason Rosenberg
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Date Picture Taken: April 28, 2012
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