WebThe Caucasian War (Russian: Кавказская война; Kavkazskaya vojna) or Caucasus War was a 19th century military conflict between the Russian Empire and various peoples of the North Caucasus who resisted subjugation during the Russian conquest of the Caucasus.It consisted of a series of military actions waged by the Russian Imperial Army and …

WebTowns were built in the area that is now Chechnya as early as 8000 BCE. Pottery, too, came around the same time, and so did stone weaponry, stone utensils, stone jewelry items, etc. (as well as clay dishes). This period was known as the Kura-Arax culture. Amjad Jaimoukha notes that there was a large amount of cultural diffusion between the later Kura-Arax …

WebThe Avars, also known as Maharuls (Avar: магӀарулал, maⱨarulal, "mountaineers") are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group.The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living in the Russian republic of Dagestan. The Avars reside in the North Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.Alongside other ethnic groups in the North Caucasus …

WebThe various ethnolinguistic groups found in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and/or South Asia demonstrate differing rates of particular Y-DNA haplogroups.. In the table below, the first two columns identify ethnolinguistic groups.Subsequent columns represent the sample size (n) of the study or studies cited, …

WebDargins or Dargwa (Dargwa: дарганти, darganti) are a Northeast Caucasian native ethnic group originating in the North Caucasus, and who make up the second largest ethnic group in the North Caucasian republic of Dagestan.They speak the Dargwa language.The ethnic group comprises, however, all speakers of the Dargin languages; Dargwa is simply the …

WebPeoples and states. Avars (Caucasus), a modern Northeast Caucasian-speaking people in the North Caucasus, Dagestan, Russia Avar language, the modern Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Avars of the North Caucasus, Dagestan, Russia; Avar Khanate, a former country of the Caucasus Avar; Pannonian Avars, a medieval nomadic people who …

WebThe Georgians, or Kartvelians (/ k ɑːr t ˈ v ɛ l i ə n z /; Georgian: ქართველები, romanized: kartvelebi, pronounced [kʰɑɾtʰvɛlɛbi]), are a nation and indigenous Caucasian ethnic group native to Georgia and the South Caucasus.Georgian diaspora communities are also present throughout Russia, Turkey, Greece, Iran, Ukraine, United States, and European Union.

WebThe Abazin, Abazinians or Abaza (Abaza and Abkhaz: Абаза; Circassian: Абазэхэр; Russian: Абазины; Turkish: Abazalar; Arabic: أباظة), are an ethnic group of the Northwest Caucasus, closely related to the Abkhaz and Circassian people. They live mostly in Turkey, Egypt and in Karachay-Cherkessia and Stavropol Krai in the North Caucasus region of …

WebHistory. Anthropologists of the 19th and early 20th century posited the existence of a Turanid racial type or "minor race" as a subtype of the Caucasoid race with some Mongoloid admixture, situated at the boundary of the distribution of the Mongoloid and Caucasoid races.. The idea of a Turanid race came to play a role of some significance in Pan …

WebThe Pannonian Avars (/ ˈ æ v ɑːr z /) were an alliance of several groups of Eurasian nomads of various origins. The peoples were also known as the Obri in chronicles of Rus, the Abaroi or Varchonitai (Greek: Βαρχονίτες, romanized: Varchonítes), or Pseudo-Avars in Byzantine sources, and the Apar (Old Turkic: ????????) to the Göktürks (Kultegin Inscription: …