The Caucasian War (Russian: Кавказская война, romanized: Kavkazskaya voyna) or Caucasus War was a 19th-century military conflict between the Russian Empire...

Pavel Muratov, Caucasian Battlefields, 1953, Book II Tarle 1950, p. 493. Anderson, Edgar (1969). "The Scandinavian Area and the Crimean War in the Baltic"...

the North Caucasus, to fight against the Russian Empire during the Caucasian War, where Russia sought to conquer the Caucasus in order to secure communications...

Maharuls (Avar: магӀарулал, maⱨarulal, "mountaineers"), are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group. The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living...

Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus, mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its...

artillery.: 1–51  The first recorded use of this tactic came from the Caucasian War where the Chechen Naib Talkhig of Shali became famous for his shoot-and-scoot...

Indo-European and Turkic languages, the Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian language families are indigenous to the area. Pliny the Elder's...

Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-8135-6069-4. Retrieved 3 May 2016. Y. Abramov,Caucasian Mountaineers, Materials For the History of Circassian People Archived...

North-Ossetia, Chechen Republic. In the 19th century, during and following the Caucasian War, numbers of Kumyks were subject to or willingly resettled (made hijra)...

Mansur, an imam in Chechnya who wanted to unite all Caucasian peoples against Russia, declared holy war against Russia. Angered, the Russian troops plundered...

during the Russo–Turkish War of 1877–78. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Chechens established a short-lived Caucasian Imamate which included parts...

(Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: Adygekher) are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation who originated in Circassia, a region and former...

regional conflicts. Historically popular during the Russian Civil War, pan-Caucasianism has formed a part of the foreign policy of Georgia and Chechen militants...

and expansion. Following long local resistance during the 1817–1864 Caucasian War, Imperial Russian forces defeated the Chechens and annexed their lands...

"refugees". Georgia has made outreach efforts to North Caucasian ethnic groups since the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. Following a consultation with academics, human...

the boy, inspiring a passion for its mountains and stirring beauty. "Caucasian mountains for me are sacred", he wrote later. It was there that Lermontov...

of the farms, which had become scattered throughout Chechnya due to the wars. To prevent a farm from being liquidated, at least 60 families needed to...

политику устрашения черкесов. [Russian general, participant in the Caucasian War. He is known for pursuing an extremely cruel policy of intimidating...

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of...

Northeast Caucasian native ethnic group originating in the North Caucasus, and who make up the second largest ethnic group in the North Caucasian republic...

victories over the Bar Confederation and the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War. With the support of Great Britain, Russia colonised the territories of New...

1845) was an Chechen General during the Caucasian War, who commanded the Eastern and Central Fronts of Caucasian Imamate. He is also one of the great commanders...

imperial aspirations in what became known as the Caucasian War (1817-1864). Earlier leaders of Caucasian resistance included Hadji-Dawud, Sheikh Mansur...

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the...

into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy's notable works include the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist...

against Ukraine. Sheikh Mansur Movement Caucasian Imamate Russo-Circassian War Caucasian War Russian–Kumyk Wars Askerov, Ali (2015). Historical Dictionary...

The Tajikistani Civil War, also known as the Tajik Civil War, began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997. Regional groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan...

19th century in the Caucasian Wars (1817–1864). The North Caucasus became the scene of intense fighting during the Second World War. Nazi Germany attempted...

authorities. 1865 – After the end of Caucasian War, the Nazranians were deported to Turkey. After the end of Caucasian War, the Nazranians were part of Ingushskiy...

the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. The republic is part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country of Georgia...