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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Spuler on Major Works Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and Early Ottoman Turkey. Singapore, SG: Pustaka Nasional, 2003. ISBN 978 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *Le Caucase (The Caucasus, 1859) *Impressions de voyage: En Russie (Travel Impressions: In Russia, 1860) ==Posthumous recognition== ...
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  • the Central region of Russia, the Northern Caucasus, and Siberia demanding the acceleration of collectivization and repressions against the kulaks ...
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  • occupy the Khazar heartlands north of the Caucasus Mountains permanently. On ... ibn Muhammad against the Khazars in the Caucasus in 1030. For more information ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • rice, or other fillings and then baked. In the Caucasus, for example, it is fried and stuffed with walnut paste to make nigvziani badrijani. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the Muslim tribes of Central Asia, the North Caucasus and Crimea. Kommersant, Republic of Kalmykia (March 10, 2004). After his rule, internal ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Present in the Making of National Identity. Caucasus World. New York, NY: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 9780203004937. * Hovannisian, Richard G. 1997 ...
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  • * Jersild, Austin. 2002. Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845–1917. Montreal: McGill–Queen ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • |birth_place = Tiflis, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi ... of Saratov and Privy Councillor of the Caucasus. His grandmother was Princess ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • a year in custody, Kirov moved to the Caucasus, where he stayed until the ... the swashbuckling commissars in the North Caucasus beside Ordzhonikidze and ...
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  • * Caucasus leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica) * Central Persian leopard (Panthera pardus dathei) * Sinai leopard (Panthera pardus jarvisi) ...
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  • of their centuries long suzerainty over the Caucasus, the Sassanids made attempts to promote Zoroastrianism there with considerable successes, and ...
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  • Asia (Indonesia, and China), Georgia (Caucasus region of Europe), and eastern ... (more similar to those found in the Caucasus than those from the Altai ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • by FSB instructors in Dagestan, Northern Caucasus, during 1996–1997." ... in Xinjiang against Chinese, jihad in the Caucasus against the Russians and ...
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  • non-religious trip. The author visited the Caucasus, Persia, India, and the Crimea. However, most of the notes are dedicated to India, its political ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • occupied by Germans, Brezhnev was sent to the Caucasus as deputy head of political administration of the Transcaucasian Front. In April 1943, he became ...
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  • Soviet Union, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and North Caucasus that may have resulted in millions of deaths. In 1933, worker's real earnings sank to about ...
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  • hopes were that key areas in the North Caucasus and Volga regions would ... After local activists in a village in North Caucasus actually confiscated ...
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  • the Macedonian Conquest." Iran and the Caucasus 11(2) (2007): 169-194. * Stausberg, Michael. Die Religion Zarathushtras, vol. III. Stuttgart: ...
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  • * Kaukasus (Southern Russia and the Caucasus area), * Moskau (Moscow ... Russia all the way to the Volga and the oil-rich Caucasus. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • one was posted to manage a power station in the Caucasus, and another, Vyacheslav Molotov, became ambassador to Mongolia. Khrushchev became Premier ...
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  • East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Caucasus, as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia, and Sri Lanka. ==Notes== == References == ...
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  • of this genus are confined to the rivers of the Caucasus in southern Russia. The Pyrenean euprocte (Euproctus pyrenaicus), an endemic relative of the ...
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  • Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia ... Slavic and some Southern Slavic), the Caucasus, the languages of Idel-Ural ...
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  • Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. New York: Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2003. ISBN 1571816666 * Dündar, Fuat. Ittihat ve Terakki ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in southern Russia (around Volgograd), the Caucasus, and southern Ukraine also exist. Those communities traces their roots to Koreans who lived ...
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  • via an easier route through the Caucasus, and Timur destroyed Sarai and Astrakhan, and wrecked the Golden Horde's economy based on Silk ...
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  • 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), ...
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  • Age peoples, from the Altay Mountains to the Caucasus, Romania, and Bulgaria. Sometimes, they were quite complex structures with internal chambers ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Russian armies generally had the best of it in the Caucasus. Vice ... II) assumed senior control over the Caucasus front. Nicholas tried to ...
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  • "He (Antiochus) crossed the Caucasus (Hindu Kush) and descended into India; renewed his friendship with Sophagasenus the king of the Indians; ...
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  • against the highlanders of the North Caucasus. These campaigns highlighted ... *Guchinova, Ė.-B. 2006. The Kalmyks. (Caucasus world) London: Routledge ...
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