Freedom Square, Tbilisi

Tawisuplebis Moedani (Georgian თავისუფლების მოედანი - " Freedom Square ") is a square in the center of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. On the square, the City Hall of Tbilisi is. He also forms a part of the central boulevard Rustaveli Gamsiri.

The course was laid out in the first half of the 19th century under Russian rule and initially carried the name Yermolov - Eriwanski place after the Russian General and Governor of Transcaucasia, Alexei Yermolov. He formed a new administrative center of the district north of the center.

1820, the Tbilisi police headquarters was built on the site. 1882-1886 it was rebuilt by the architects AG Oserow and PF Star to the town hall. 1847-1851 was the first Tbilisi Opera House project by Italian architect Giovanni Scudieri on behalf of Prince Mikhail Vorontsov Viceroy. It burned down in 1874 and was re-erected elsewhere.

Soviet times he was first called Place of the Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republic, then Leninism Moedani (Eng. Lenin Square ). For a short time during the Stalin era, he was known as Beriaplatz. In the center was a Lenin monument. The statue was removed in 1990 and later replaced by a fountain. In 1991, the place its present name. In November 2006, a freedom monument was erected in place of the fountain. It shows Georgia's patron saint, St George.

The place was repeatedly the scene of political change in Georgia. On 8 and 9 March 1956 radical student at a rally demanding the state independence of Georgia. Soviet tanks ended the movement in the massacre of Tbilisi. 1991 and 1992 there of the Tiflis war was fought, a coup by the warlords Dschaba Iosseliani and Tengiz Kitovani against the elected president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia. The projectile strikes by tanks, artillery and missiles are still visible on the parliament building.

2003 attracted during the Rose Revolution, tens of thousands of people across the square to demonstrate against the government of Eduard Shevardnadze and forced them finally to resign. In May 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush gave a speech there on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.

The course has since 1967 through a subway station Metro Tbilisi, which is named after him.