Timote Gabashvili

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Detail from a map of Georgian coastal fortifications, by Timote Gabashvili, 1737

Timote (Timothy) Gabashvili (Georgian: ტიმოთე გაბაშვილი) (1703–1764) was a Georgian travel writer, traveler, diplomat, cartographer, religious[1] and public figure.[citation needed] [2] He was the first to describe the Georgian antiquities of Jerusalem on his visit to the Holy Land in the 1750s.[3]

Works

Mimosvla - Travels by Timote Gabashvili, 1759

References

  1. ^ Ebanoidze, Mzia; Wilkinson, John (2013). Pilgrimage: Timothy Gabashvili's Travels to Mount Athos, Constantinople and Jerusalem, 1755-1759. Caucasus World. Routledge. pp. 36–37. ISBN 978-0700712649. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. ^ E. Metreveli., Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2, pg. 604-605, Tb. Year 1977.
  3. ^ Tchekhanovets, Yana (2018). The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land : Armenian, Georgian and Albanian Communities between the Fourth and Eleventh Centuries CE. Brill. p. 3. ISBN 9789004365551.