Search results for "Caucasus" - New World Encyclopedia

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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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • territories, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Caucasus.[http://www.history.com/topics/world ... * Kaukasus (Caucasus area), * Moskau (the Moscow metropolitan area ...
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  • Horde of Batu threatened the Il-khanate in the Caucasus and Transoxiana, preventing expansion westward. Even under Hülegü's reign, the Ilkhanate ...
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  • * Caucasus wisent – Bison bonasus caucasicus – extinct ... killed by poachers in 1927 in the Western Caucasus. By that year fewer than ...
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  • until 1823. After a summer trip to the Caucasus and to Crimea, he wrote ... *Kavkazskiy Plennik The Captive of the Caucasus (1822) (poem) ...
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  • be chained to the summit of the Caucasus Mountains for eternity. ... Zeus had Prometheus carried to Mount Caucasus, upon the summit of which ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • present-day Southwestern Russia and the Caucasus. The mamluks were often ... recruits were introduced from Georgia in the Caucasus. Napolean defeated ...
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  • of the revolutionary movement in the Caucasus. His interaction with Soviet ... and Mikoyan, 1925.jpg|400px|thumb|The Caucasus trio, Mikoyan, Stalin, and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in the Crimea and Caucasians in the Caucasus. Tatars of Siberia are survivors ... * those of the Caucasus (in historical context), * and those of Eastern ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Adriatic, Black, and Caspian seas and the Caucasus Mountains on the south; ... Adriatic, Black, and Caspian seas and the Caucasus Mountains on the south; ...
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  • 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

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