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4 ore fa · Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest —a fictionalized study of the domestic life of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp commandant whose family lived right ...
5 giorni fa · Khazar, member of a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes that in the late 6th century CE established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia. The Khazars likely were originally located in the northern Caucasus region and were part of the western Turkic empire.
18 ore fa · As a result of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), the Ottomans had forces in Circassia. They were seen as fellow Muslim allies by the Circassians. The Cossacks defended the village of Naur against a strong Circassian-Turkish combined army of 8,000 men. The Circassian Revolution began in 1770.
2 giorni fa · According to the historian Yevgeny Anisimov, Yermolov is "the founder of the policy of genocide of the Caucasus highlanders" and "the initiator of the creation of 'dead zones' where all life was subjected to complete destruction", including houses, crops, gardens and forests, and the highlanders "were driven higher into the mountains where they, deprived of everything, died of hunger, disease ...
2 giorni fa · Darius the Great. Darius I ( Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; Greek: ΔαρεῖοςDareios; c.550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE.
3 giorni fa · Learn more about Joseph Stalin. See all videos for this article. Stalin was of Georgian —not Russian—origin, and persistent rumours claim that he was Ossetian on the paternal side. He was the son of a poor cobbler in the provincial Georgian town of Gori in the Caucasus, then an imperial Russian colony.
4 giorni fa · Beslan school attack, violent takeover of a school in Beslan, a city in the North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, Russia, in September 2004. Perpetrated by militants linked to the separatist insurgency in the nearby republic of Chechnya , the attack resulted in the deaths of more than 330 people, the majority of them children.
