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- 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 (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- 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
