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 | | With the help of the prominent Georgian cleric Anthim the Iberian (died in 1716), archbishop of Wallachia (present Romania) and one of the outstanding figures in the history of the Rumanian Church, King Vakhtang set about installing a printing plant in Tbilisi. |
 | | Archbishop Anthim was himself a master printer and engraver of the first order and pioneer in Rumanian printing as well as in the provision of sacred literature fr the Christian communities of Syria and Levant. |
 | | It was one of Anthim's disciples, the master printer Mihaî Isvanovicî, known in Georgia as Mikheil Stepaneshvili, who came to Tbilisi to open first Georgian press. |
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