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- sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus." He was the most important ... court-marshaled and sent to a regiment in the Caucasus. ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- area has been valued as the gate to the Caucasus, and Derbent has structures ... gap between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. Originally established ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- elements," gathered in the North Caucasus. Thus, the Volunteer Army ... 11th Soviet Army and capture the North Caucasus region. In January of 1919 ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- orchards in Europe, Turkey, Iran, and the Caucasus. This hazelnut or cobnut ... *** Corylus colchica—Colchican Filbert. Caucasus. *** Corylus cornuta—Beaked ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:08, 25 January 2023
- territories, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Caucasus.[http://www.history.com/topics/world ... * Kaukasus (Caucasus area), * Moskau (the Moscow metropolitan area ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:49, 25 October 2022
- Horde of Batu threatened the Il-khanate in the Caucasus and Transoxiana, preventing expansion westward. Even under Hülegü's reign, the Ilkhanate ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
- * Caucasus wisent – Bison bonasus caucasicus – extinct ... killed by poachers in 1927 in the Western Caucasus. By that year fewer than ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 02:50, 8 March 2023
- until 1823. After a summer trip to the Caucasus and to Crimea, he wrote ... *Kavkazskiy Plennik The Captive of the Caucasus (1822) (poem) ...14 KB (2,242 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- |File:Caucasus, Ingushetia, Ингушские боевые и смотровые башни, горы Кавказа.jpg|Medieval military towers ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 23:11, 28 April 2024
- be chained to the summit of the Caucasus Mountains for eternity. ... Zeus had Prometheus carried to Mount Caucasus, upon the summit of which ...12 KB (1,993 words) - 23:54, 1 December 2022
- and extended the Persian dominion to the Caucasus; for the same reasons he ... on the Hindu Kush (which they called the Caucasus Indicus) and on the shores ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- Armenian and Georgian territories in the Caucasus to Russia, including Ardahan ... between the Russian and the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- stretching, at its largest extent, from North Caucasus to northern ... (Tbilisi) was among the best in the Caucasus. His son, Pyotr Romanovich ...21 KB (3,136 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- present-day Southwestern Russia and the Caucasus. The mamluks were often ... recruits were introduced from Georgia in the Caucasus. Napolean defeated ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- of the revolutionary movement in the Caucasus. His interaction with Soviet ... and Mikoyan, 1925.jpg|400px|thumb|The Caucasus trio, Mikoyan, Stalin, and ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- inspired by Pushkin's The Prisoner of the Caucasus, adheres to a realistic and homely style, with a touch of sentimental pathos but not a trace of ...7 KB (1,089 words) - 18:40, 31 May 2022
- in the Crimea and Caucasians in the Caucasus. Tatars of Siberia are survivors ... * those of the Caucasus (in historical context), * and those of Eastern ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- in 1878), the three-act Prisoner of the Caucasus (1883), based on Pushkin ... the staging there of Prisoner of the Caucasus. In Moscow, Mariya Kerzina ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- Adriatic, Black, and Caspian seas and the Caucasus Mountains on the south; ... Adriatic, Black, and Caspian seas and the Caucasus Mountains on the south; ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- Iranian territories in Georgia and the Caucasus. In 1796 Āghā Moḥammad ... control over the territories in the Caucasus. Agha Mohammad established ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- republic of Russia. It is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the Southern Federal District. It is bordered by Russia on the north, Ingushetia ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- *1893 Caucasus *1894 Renaissance *1895 Rosebud *1895 Twelve Monograms *1896 Revolving Miniatures *1896 Alexander III Portraits† *1897 Coronation ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- Situated on the eastern end of the North Caucasus Mountains along ... half of the republic, consists of the Caucasus Mountains, the crest of ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- been found in Africa, Indonesia, and Georgia (Caucasus region of Europe). Although Homo erectus has been placed from about 1.8 million years ago ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- widely about Russia, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus. After an attempt at suicide ... the Tiflis newspaper Кавказ (The Caucasus). Gorky's first book ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
- The Caspian Sea lies east of the Caucasus Mountains and dominates ... Caspian from the foothills of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. The city of Baku ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- Respublikası), is situated in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, north ... natural boundary to the east; the Greater Caucasus mountain range to the north; ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- believed to be loyal, many of them from the Caucasus. Though he ended the purge, Beria initiated other widespread repressive activities, administering ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 17:56, 25 October 2022
- the fortress of Georgievsk in the North Caucasus on July 24, 1783. It was ... * King, Charles. 2008. The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- accompanied his elder brother to the Caucasus in 1851 and joined the Russian ... *A Prisoner in the Caucasus (Кавказский Пленник; 1872) ...19 KB (2,888 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- and a significant part of South Caucasus. The Armeno-Georgian princely ... to Nakhichevan and other areas of the Caucasus from the Persian and Ottoman ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- :* Picea orientalis Caucasian Spruce or Oriental Spruce. Caucasus, northeast Turkey. :* Picea morrisonicola Yushan Spruce. Taiwan (high mountains). ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- of the songs and rhythms of the Caucasus peoples with Western theoretical stylism created a bridge between the east and the west and made folk ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- Georgia borders the Black Sea, between Turkey and Russia, in the Caucasus ... The Greater Caucasus Mountain Range separates Georgia from the North ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 20:12, 4 September 2023
- dominated the Pontic steppe and the North Caucasus from the seventh to the ... #039;s policy of subduing the South Caucasus. In the spring of 1796, ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- semi-nomadic, controlled much of the North Caucasus from the seventh to the tenth centuries C.E. His descendant, Stephen I of Hungary, canonized ...14 KB (1,600 words) - 16:21, 13 January 2024
- provinces — the Ukraine, North Caucasus [i.e. Kuban Region], and ... The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- several expeditions to the Volga Delta and North Caucasus. He proposed an archaeological site for Samandar as well as the theory of the Caspian transgression ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- German armies as they advanced into the Caucasus with large oil deposits ... the southern Russian steppes into the Caucasus to capture the vital Soviet ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- *** Battle of the Caucasus * Guerrilla war in the Baltic states ... and other Muslim minorities from the Caucasus during the war. ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- as large parts of India, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus. It was founded by the legendary ... Horde and enforced his sovereignty in the Caucasus, in 1398 subjugated Multan ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Horde and expanded its influence into the Caucasus Mountains and Central Asia ... on Major Works Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- Africa, Asia (Indonesia and China), and Georgia (Caucasus region of Europe)(Mayr 2001). It is considered to be the first hominid to spread out of Africa ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
- quot; (thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander ... Greco-Bactrian style ([[Alexandria of the Caucasus|Alexandria-Kapisa]] mint). ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- and rivers. The Greater and Lesser Caucasus ranges form the eastern ... West, the Eurasian steppes to the north, Caucasus and Central Asia to the ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- as do the indigenous languages of the Caucasus. The Sami are genetically ... and the Mushki migrated from the Caucasus into Anatolia. A Thraco ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- organization.Ib Faurby, [https://www.caucasus.dk/publication1.htm Battles ... * Gall, Carlotta, and Thomas De Waal. Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- in such places as Central Asia, the Caucasus region, parts of Africa, and Southeast Asia. The practice is prevalent in farming societies where ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- America zone, together with Cyprus and the Caucasus States. The UNESCO geographic zones also give greater emphasis on administrative, rather than ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- (or Kipchak Khanate), which ruled Rus and the Caucasus for around 250 years, after also destroying the armies of Poland and Hungary. He was the nominal ...14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:34, 14 February 2023
- and from Egypt in the south, to the Caucasus in the north. The empire ... the thrones of Jordan and Iraq. In the Caucasus there was a stalemate between ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- year in the Volga Basin and the North Caucasus Territory as a whole, the ... but to Russia, Belarus, peoples of the Caucasus, and Crimean Tatars, remain ...40 KB (5,918 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- The doppa, a square or round skullcap originating in the Caucasus and worn by Kazan Tatars, Uzbeks and Uyghurs is another example of a Muslim ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Spuler on Major Works Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and Early Ottoman Turkey. Singapore, SG: Pustaka Nasional, 2003. ISBN 978 ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 16:57, 8 December 2022
- of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine) and the Caucasus. While engaged in a final ... manage to migrate into the Volga-North Caucasus region, but their impact ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- designed to relieve pressure on Russia's Caucasus front, and to open an effective supply route to Russia. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary blocked ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- *Le Caucase (The Caucasus, 1859) *Impressions de voyage: En Russie (Travel Impressions: In Russia, 1860) ==Posthumous recognition== ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- the Central region of Russia, the Northern Caucasus, and Siberia demanding the acceleration of collectivization and repressions against the kulaks ...19 KB (2,687 words) - 06:04, 6 March 2023
- occupy the Khazar heartlands north of the Caucasus Mountains permanently. On ... ibn Muhammad against the Khazars in the Caucasus in 1030. For more information ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- Rustah to have been taken by a king in the Caucasus, who observed Muslim, Jewish, and Christian rites equally, declaring that "I have decided to ...20 KB (3,286 words) - 08:59, 18 November 2022
- rice, or other fillings and then baked. In the Caucasus, for example, it is fried and stuffed with walnut paste to make nigvziani badrijani. ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 23:58, 12 February 2024
- The Seljuqs (also Seljuk or Seljuq Turks) were a Muslim dynasty of originally Oghuz Turkic descent that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- the Muslim tribes of Central Asia, the North Caucasus and Crimea. Kommersant, Republic of Kalmykia (March 10, 2004). After his rule, internal ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- country located in the Southern Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- Present in the Making of National Identity. Caucasus World. New York, NY: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 9780203004937. * Hovannisian, Richard G. 1997 ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- * Jersild, Austin. 2002. Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845–1917. Montreal: McGill–Queen ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- whose distant realm bordered on the Northern Caucasus and the Black Sea, hastened to Kiev and inflicted a heavy defeat on Yaroslav in 1024. Thereupon ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- |birth_place = Tiflis, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi ... of Saratov and Privy Councillor of the Caucasus. His grandmother was Princess ...50 KB (7,301 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- Worker strikes in Caucasus broke out in March 1902 and strikes on ... By February, there were strikes in the Caucasus, and by April, in the Urals ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- at the war's conclusion. He ended up in the Caucasus, where he eventually began working as a journalist. In 1921, he moved with Tatiana to Moscow ...18 KB (2,746 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- a year in custody, Kirov moved to the Caucasus, where he stayed until the ... the swashbuckling commissars in the North Caucasus beside Ordzhonikidze and ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- * Caucasus leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica) * Central Persian leopard (Panthera pardus dathei) * Sinai leopard (Panthera pardus jarvisi) ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- of their centuries long suzerainty over the Caucasus, the Sassanids made attempts to promote Zoroastrianism there with considerable successes, and ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Asia (Indonesia, and China), Georgia (Caucasus region of Europe), and eastern ... (more similar to those found in the Caucasus than those from the Altai ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- Russia. By October, it had reached Tomsk and the Caucasus. It rapidly spread west and hit North America in December 1889, South America in February–April ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- by FSB instructors in Dagestan, Northern Caucasus, during 1996–1997." ... in Xinjiang against Chinese, jihad in the Caucasus against the Russians and ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- non-religious trip. The author visited the Caucasus, Persia, India, and the Crimea. However, most of the notes are dedicated to India, its political ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- of Armenia by the western Huns from the Caucasus led to an armistice, the ... to Khosrau I for the defense of the Caucasus passes. The Armenians were ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- a raid into Georgia, the Mongols cut across the Caucasus Mountains during the winter to get around the Derbent Pass. By means of underhand diplomacy ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 21:26, 26 February 2023
- occupied by Germans, Brezhnev was sent to the Caucasus as deputy head of political administration of the Transcaucasian Front. In April 1943, he became ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- Soviet Union, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and North Caucasus that may have resulted in millions of deaths. In 1933, worker's real earnings sank to about ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- hopes were that key areas in the North Caucasus and Volga regions would ... After local activists in a village in North Caucasus actually confiscated ...62 KB (8,577 words) - 22:34, 7 January 2024
- the Macedonian Conquest." Iran and the Caucasus 11(2) (2007): 169-194. * Stausberg, Michael. Die Religion Zarathushtras, vol. III. Stuttgart: ...25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- * Kaukasus (Southern Russia and the Caucasus area), * Moskau (Moscow ... Russia all the way to the Volga and the oil-rich Caucasus. ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- is now Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of the Caucasus region, and parts of Central Asia, but his military spending had a ruinous effect on the Persian ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- one was posted to manage a power station in the Caucasus, and another, Vyacheslav Molotov, became ambassador to Mongolia. Khrushchev became Premier ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Caucasus, as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia, and Sri Lanka. ==Notes== == References == ...34 KB (4,808 words) - 11:03, 28 September 2023
- of this genus are confined to the rivers of the Caucasus in southern Russia. The Pyrenean euprocte (Euproctus pyrenaicus), an endemic relative of the ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 14:45, 2 July 2022
- Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia ... Slavic and some Southern Slavic), the Caucasus, the languages of Idel-Ural ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. New York: Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2003. ISBN 1571816666 * Dündar, Fuat. Ittihat ve Terakki ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- During 1917 and 1918, Mustafa Kemal was sent to the Caucasus front to fight against Russian forces, in which he had some success. He was later ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- defeat in an attempted invasion north of the Caucasus in 1263, after Berke Khan had lured him north and away from the Holy Land. Thus, the Kipchak Khanate ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- in southern Russia (around Volgograd), the Caucasus, and southern Ukraine also exist. Those communities traces their roots to Koreans who lived ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- via an easier route through the Caucasus, and Timur destroyed Sarai and Astrakhan, and wrecked the Golden Horde's economy based on Silk ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- a brief stay with his mother in Kislovodsk in the Caucasus, because of worries of the enemy capturing Petrograd (the new name for Saint Petersburg), ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Age peoples, from the Altay Mountains to the Caucasus, Romania, and Bulgaria. Sometimes, they were quite complex structures with internal chambers ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- BP) infant from Mezmaiskaya Cave in the Caucasus (Ovchinnikov et al. 2000). ... for the genome of a Neanderthal from the Caucasus. Prüfer et al.(2013) reported ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- Russian armies generally had the best of it in the Caucasus. Vice ... II) assumed senior control over the Caucasus front. Nicholas tried to ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- "He (Antiochus) crossed the Caucasus (Hindu Kush) and descended into India; renewed his friendship with Sophagasenus the king of the Indians; ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- against the highlanders of the North Caucasus. These campaigns highlighted ... *Guchinova, Ė.-B. 2006. The Kalmyks. (Caucasus world) London: Routledge ...59 KB (8,959 words) - 02:32, 5 October 2022
