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Georgia banknotes 5 Lari note 1995
Obverse: The obverse of the banknote features a portrait of Ivane Javakhishvili, a Georgian academic, with a legend that reads "Ivane Javakhishvili 1876-1940".
Reverse: The reverse of the banknote features the building of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, as well as an open book and a plant ornament underneath.
Date of issue - 2002
Size - 115x61 mm
Georgian banknotes - Georgia paper money
Ivane Javakhishvili
Prince Ivane Javakhishvili (1876-1940) was a Georgian historian whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia. He was also one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and its rector from 1919 to 1926. Javakhishvili authored more than 170 works dealing with various aspects of Georgia's political, cultural, social and economic history. Since the publication of its first edition in 1908, his main work, A History of the Georgian Nation (fully published between 1908 and 1949), has remained one of the most comprehensive and eloquent treatments of pre-modern Georgian history. Regrettably, it has not been translated into any other language. Several of Javakhishvili's most influential articles and books including A History of the Georgian Nation have been reprinted in his twelve-volume collected works from 1977 and 1998.
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, is a university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region. Over 18,000 students are enrolled and the total number of faculty and staff (collaborators) is approximately 5,000. The University has five branches in different regions of Georgia, 6 faculties, approximately 60 scientific-research laboratories and centers, a scientific library (with more than 3,700,000 books and periodicals), 7 museums, publishing house and printing press (newspaper "Tbilisis Universiteti").