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  • century. The region was historically a buffer zone between Russia to the North and Turkey to the South. Relations with Turkey improved following ...
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  • The Caucasian region has often functioned as a buffer zone between rival empires—Roman and Parthian, Byzantine and Arab or Ottoman, Persian ...
    48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
  • Selgovae of southwest Scotland, on the Roman buffer state of the Votadini who lived north of the Hadrianic frontier. The first Antonine occupation ...
    53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
  • to the west and Ravi to the east. This created a buffer state for the British between their Indian empire, and the empires of Russia and China. ...
    51 KB (7,778 words) - 19:17, 4 June 2024
  • importance of the Kalmyk Khanate as a buffer zone, separating Russia and the Muslim world, as Russia fought wars in Europe to establish itself ...
    59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
  • against the colonial powers and served as a buffer state between Russia and British India. The three Anglo-Afghan wars (1839–1842, 1878–1880, and ...
    50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
  • violate the Manifesto, but the Council became a buffer zone between the Tsar and Duma, slowing whatever progress the latter could achieve. Even three ...
    57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
  • content to leave the weak Commonwealth alone as a buffer, reacted strongly to the king Stanisław August Poniatowski's and other reformers attempts ...
    62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
  • kings of Al-Hirah, who were Arabs ruling a settled buffer state. In 602 C.E.,Shahanshah Khosrow II Aparviz rashly abolished the Lakhmid kingdom and laid ...
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  • Girona in 785 and Barcelona in 801. This formed a buffer zone against Muslim lands across the Pyrenees. Historian J.M. Roberts said in 1993 J. M. Roberts ...
    68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
  • ordered them back on their lands to provide a buffer between Rome and the even more feared Germanic tribes. In the captured Helvetian camp Caesar claims ...
    77 KB (12,113 words) - 23:58, 4 March 2024
  • The accidental doping of Ge with the GaAs buffer layer created higher open circuit voltages, demonstrating the potential of using the Ge substrate ...
    90 KB (13,568 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
  • Israel withdrew from most of Lebanon in 1986, a buffer zone was maintained until May 2000 when Israel unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon. A Palestinian ...
    69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
  • of the Netherlands, which was to serve as a buffer state against any future French invasions. Protestant Prince William of Orange ascended the throne ...
    76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
  • in several of Hungary’s southern buffer provinces. Territorial losses in the south marked the reign of Sigismund (1368-1437), a prince from ...
    107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
  • War, and Stalin's goal was to establish a buffer zone of states between Germany and the Soviet Union. Truman charged that Stalin had betrayed ...
    137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022

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