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    The Caucasian War (Russian: Кавказская война, romanized: Kavkazskaya voyna) or the Caucasus War was a 19th-century military conflict between the Russian...
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    Pavel Muratov, Caucasian Battlefields, 1953, Book II Tarle 1950, p. 493. Anderson, Edgar (1969). "The Scandinavian Area and the Crimean War in the Baltic"...
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    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...
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    Indo-European and Turkic languages, the Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian language families are indigenous to the area. Pliny the Elder's...
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    Maharuls (Avar: магӀарулал, maⱨarulal, "mountaineers"), are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group. The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living...
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    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)...
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    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...
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    Alexander II of Russia (category People of the Caucasian War)
    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...
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    (Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: Adygekher) are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation who originated in Circassia, a region and former...
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    during the Russo–Turkish War of 1877–78. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Chechens established a short-lived Caucasian Imamate which included parts...
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