Search results for "Caucasus" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Turkic Muslim people driven from the north west Caucasus region since 1863 after the Russian invasion of the Caucasus. A few Lebanese have settled in ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- still exist in fruit and vegetables from the Caucasus Mountains east across southern and central Russia, to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and parts of China; ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- * Ursus arctos meridionalis--Northern Caucasus * Ursus arctos middendorffi--Kodiak bear; Kodiak, Afognak, Shuyak Islands (Alaska) * Ursus arctos ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- Once again he was banished, this time to the Caucasus in Armenia. "John Chrysostom" in The Oxford Dictionary of Church History, ed ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- When they reached the world of the Caucasus and the Aegean, the Indo-Europeans encountered wine, the entheogen of Dionysus, who brought it with ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- including Ukraine, Kazakhstan and North Caucasus. This led to millions of ... He then worked for a decade with the political underground in the ...78 KB (11,852 words) - 06:34, 6 May 2024
- Conflict and civil unrest in Chechenya, Caucasus due to independence proclaimed by this republic in 1991 which was not accepted by the Russian ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- to the virgin Tamara in a scenic setting of the Caucasus mountains. Many classic books and plays feature demons, such as the Divine Comedy, Paradise ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- Kuznetsov (Commander of both North Caucasus and Baltic Military Districts), and Boris Shaposhnikov (Deputy People's Commissar for Defense ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- Mountain ranges are found along the southern borders, such as the ... and the highlands of the North Caucasus. In 1831 Nicholas crushed ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- Haig was co-chairman of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, along with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen J. Solarz. A member of the ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- and 389 C.E., some of these crossed the Caucasus and settled in Armenia. ... the west, the Black Sea to the south, the Caucasus to the southeast, and Volga ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- level, driving the Turks out of the Crimea and Caucasus. Meanwhile, the German Empire of Prussia appealed to the Austrians through a common culture ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- and sent to the Russian army in the Caucasus, while those not capable of military service, as well as their women and children, should be resettled ...38 KB (5,415 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- steppe empire extending west as far as the Caucasus. They were active in the areas of southern Siberia, western Manchuria and the modern Chinese provinces ...37 KB (5,668 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Erkel, Head of Mission in Dagestan in the North Caucasus, was kidnapped and held hostage in an unknown location by unknown abductors from August 12 ...42 KB (6,193 words) - 17:12, 25 February 2024
- election, a third front could open up in the Caucasus; money will pour in to support terrorists, just like it did during the two Chechen wars. There could ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- himself to "Prometheus chained to the Caucasus." About this time occurred the notorious case of the second marriage of Philip of Hesse. Melanchthon ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- * Caucasus War (1828–1859) * Algerian resistance movement (1832 - 1847) * Somali Dervishes (1896–1920) * Moro Rebellion (1899–1913) ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- from al-Yaqubi, who wrote in 889 or 890 that the Caucasus mountaineers, when besieged by the Arabs in 854, asked for help from the overlords (sahib) ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- freedom is blazing up. Moscow and the South, the Caucasus and Poland are ready to join the proletariat of St. Petersburg. The slogan of the workers has ...47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
- * Alexandria of the Caucasus, Afghanistan * Alexandria on the Oxus, Afghanistan * Alexandria of the Arachosians, Afghanistan * Alexandria on the ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- extended as far east as the Black Sea and the Caucasus. The amount of tribute and bounty Pompey brought back to Rome was almost incalculable: Plutarch ...48 KB (7,762 words) - 08:50, 24 November 2022
- generals Jebe and Subutai, marched through the Caucasus and Russia. Neither campaign added territory to the empire, but they pillaged settlements and ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- and included large parts of Mesopotamia, the Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran and modern-day Central Asia (Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- telegram to communist leaders in the North Caucasus telling them the collection of grain for export was going "disgustingly slowly." ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- the southern oil fields. In the Battle of the Caucasus, fought in the late summer and fall of 1942, the Axis forces captured the oil fields. ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- size of the population distributed in the Caucasus region was around 20,000 animals and the density was four animals per square kilometer (10 animals ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- The basic name, Serboi, describing a people living north of the Caucasus, appeared in the works of Tacitus, Plinius and Ptolemy in the first ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Trotsky left for a resort in the Caucasus to recover from his prolonged illness. He was still en route there when he received the news of Lenin ...93 KB (14,349 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- Khazar kingdom near the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, which included territory in what is now eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, southern Russia, and Crimea. ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- lion survived until the tenth century in the Caucasus, their last European outpost. The species was eradicated from Palestine by the Middle Ages ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- is the most mountainous, with ranges such as the Caucasus, Zagros, and Alborz Mountains. The latter contains Iran's highest point, Mount Damavand ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
