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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
- 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
- |File:Caucasus, Ingushetia, Ингушские боевые и смотровые башни, горы Кавказа.jpg|Medieval military towers ...14 KB (2,026 words) - 23:53, 28 April 2024
- 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
