“Tbilisi!” gurgled the hideous creature as it slithered through a narrow corridor. “Tbilisi!!!” roared from its innumerable maws when it bared its fangs! …I’m just messing around. But to my humble opinion Tbilisi sounds a bit like a monster from a Lovecraftian horror. A name straight out of an ancient scripture, or an arcane spell. A Dothraki battle shout from Game of Thrones? I could go on like this forever. The truth is much more mundane. It’s the capital of Georgia, the one in the eastern hemisphere. It’ located at the intersection between Europe and Asia. Tbilisi is very unusual, almost as if someone invented it during a dream. Legend has it that the area was discovered by King Vakhtang I of Iberia during a hunting trip. He smelled something funny and realized it was a ...
