Tiflis

تفليس

on the Kura in the district of Jurzan al-Qirmiz; Habib ibn Maslama wrote its people a peace securing selves, worship-houses, monasteries and religion for a dinar's jizya per house with terms of quartering, counsel and conveyance, and al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah later ratified their aman over their mills and vineyards at a hundred dirhams a year.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Tiflis is on the river Kur, in the district of Jarzan al-Qarmaz. Habib ibn Maslama wrote to its people a treaty granting safety for their persons, their sales, their monasteries and their religion, on a dinar per house as jizya, with conditions concerning villages, counsel and delivery. Then al-Jarrah ibn Abd Allah confirmed their safety for their mills and vineyards at a hundred dirhams a year. 1

It is part of Armenia.

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Birthplace of
Alimardan bey Topchubashov· Nariman Narimanov
Site of
The Georgians enter and burn Tiflis· Jalal al-Din takes the city of Tiflis from the Georgians· The Mongol Sweep through Jibal, Azerbaijan and Georgia· The Treaty with the People of Tiflis
Part of
Armenia

People and things also explored

جلال الدين منكبرتي بن خوارزم شاه· the Armenia–Azerbaijan treaty (25 AH)· Bugha al-Kabir's Pacification of the Armenian March· Habib ibn Maslama's Circuit of Armenia· Jalal al-Din plunders Armenia· Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah's Governorship of Armenia· Khuzayma ibn Khazim Institutes the Land Survey at Dabil and Nashwa· The Patrikioses' Killing of Yusuf al-Marwazi

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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