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• Peoples of the Caucasus — This article deals with the various ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region. There are more than50 ethnic groups living in the region. [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article 9021862/Caucasian peoples Caucasian peoples] , Encyclopædia… …   Wikipedia

• Languages of the Caucasus — The languages of the Caucasus are a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Linguistic comparison allows these …   Wikipedia

• Battle of the Caucasus — The Battle of Caucasus is a name given to a series of German and Soviet operations in the Caucasus area during the Soviet German War. 1941 operationsIn his memoirs, the Transcaucasian Front commander Ivan Tiulenev recounts how thousands of… …   Wikipedia

• Viceroyalty of the Caucasus — The Viceroyalty of the Caucasus is a term used to denote the Imperial Russian administrative and political authority in the Caucasus region exercised through the offices of glavnoupravlyayushchiy ( ru. главноуправляющий) (1801 1844, 1882 1902)… …   Wikipedia

• Prisoner of the Caucasus — The English title has been rendered also as Prisoner in the Caucasus . The opera was preceded on the Russian stage by choreographer Charles Didelot s ballet of 1825.CompositionThe opera was composed in three versions. The first, in 1857 1858,… …   Wikipedia

• Alexandria of the Caucasus — (medieval Kapisa, modern Bagram was a colony of Alexander the Great (one of many colonies designated with the name Alexandria ). He founded the colony at an important junction of communications in the southern foothills of the Hindu Kush… …   Wikipedia

• Peoples of the Caucasus in Turkey — The terms Peoples of the Caucasus and Caucasian peoples indicate two main groups of people in Turkey: *Immigrants from North Caucasus: **Circassians (including the Abkhaz and Abazins): Following the end of Circassian insurgency in 1864 and as an… …   Wikipedia

• Aliyah from the Commonwealth of Independent States in the 1990s — The big immigration wave of Jews from the Commonwealth of Independent States to Israel during the 1990s actually started during the late 1980s with the opening of the USSR s borders under the liberal government of Mikhail Gorbachev. The… …   Wikipedia

• CAUCASUS — CAUCASUS, mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, in the south of the former Soviet Union. For over 2,000 years this inaccessible region served as a refuge for a variety of nations, tribes, and adherents of different religions,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus — (Russian: Конфедерация горских народов Кавказа) is a militarized political organization composed of militants from the North Caucasian republics of the Russian Federation. This controversial organization, later renamed into the Confederation of… …   Wikipedia

• Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus — (KGNK)    Paramilitary organization. Sometimes known as the Confederation of the Peoples of the Caucasus (KNK), the Confederation of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus (Konfederatsiia gorskikh narodov Kavkaza) is a defunct paramilitary group… …   Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation