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3 unusual facts about North Caucasus


Mamilov`s

But Georgia was at that time in the sad state of constant attacks Arabs and Turkish, so that Kist was forced to run away from here into impregnable Caucasus Mountains and lived in one of the gorges North Caucasus, near the headwaters of Terek and ...

Naour, Jordan

The down town of Naour was established by the Circassian immigrants who were expelled from their homeland Circassia (Cherkessia) in the North Caucasus in 1900.

Robert Bruce Ware

Since completing his doctorate at Oxford University in 1995, Ware has conducted extensive field research in North Caucasus and has published extensively on politics, ethnography, and religion of the region in scholarly journals and in the popular media.


Dmitry Kozak

He was previously regional development minister in the Russian cabinet headed by Viktor Zubkov and in 2004-2007 he served as presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District (North Caucasus and Southern European Russia).

Georgian dialects

The obsolescent Kizlar-Mozdokian dialect, was spoken in the north central Caucasian areas of Kizlyar and Mozdok by descendants of those Georgians who fled the Ottoman occupation of Georgia in the early 18th century.

Lakia

In the 15th century with the decline of Golden Horde's influence in the North Caucasus, shamkhal of Gazi-Kumukh asserted his authority in the northern Dagestan and in the south opposed the territorial expansion of Iran, Shirvan and Georgia.

Vladimir Krantz

Vladimir Pavlovich Krantz was born February 17, 1913 in Mozdok, North Caucasus.


see also

BTA-6

To select the site, sixteen expeditions were dispatched to various regions of the USSR, and the final selection was in the North Caucasus Mountains near Zelenchukskaya at a height of 2,070 m.

Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus

It experienced a brief revival in December 1994, when Shanibov rallied thousands across the North Caucasus to block roads to the Russian forces heading to Grozny.

David Nyheim

After several years of focused work on the Niger Delta, which included support to the later President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Nyheim returned to the North Caucasus in 2005, where worked with Anton Ivanov and others on a Strategic Reconstruction and Development Assessment for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (United Kingdom).

KRR

Krasnodar International Airport (IATA Code), an international airport in North Caucasus, Russia