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3 unusual facts about Terek River


Caucasus Line Cossack Host

Together with the Black Sea Cossack Host it defended the Caucasus Fortified Defense Line from the inlet of Terek River to the inlet of Kuban River.

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 ...

Movlid Visaitov

Movlid Visaitov (1913-1986), a Chechen colonel and a commander of 255th Separate Chechen–Ingush cavalry regiment in the World War II which Visaitov jokingly referred to "we came from Terek river to Elbe river".


History of North Ossetia–Alania

As of 1944, the part of the Prigorodny District on the right bank of the Terek River had been part of Chechen-Ingush ASSR, but it was granted to North Ossetia in following Joseph Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia.


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