Zilant (Russian: Зилант; Tatar: җылан, romanized: cılan/jılan, lit. 'snake') is a legendary creature, something between a dragon and a wyvern.Since 1730, it has been the official symbol of Kazan.This winged snake is mentioned in legends about the foundation of Kazan. A Zilant is a legendary creature with the head of a dragon, the body of a bird, the legs of a chicken, the tail …

Etimologia Veduta dei monti Urali Monte Jamantau. Come testimoniato da Sigismund von Herberstein, nel XVI secolo i russi chiamavano la catena con una varietà di nomi locali derivati dalle parole russe per roccia e cintura.Il nome moderno russo di Urali (Урал, Ural), appare per la prima volta tra il XVI e XVII secolo quando la conquista russa della Siberia è nella sua fase …

Etymology. As attested by Sigismund von Herberstein, in the 16th century Russians called the Ural range by a variety of names derived from the Russian words for rock (stone) and belt.The modern Russian name for the Urals (Урал, Ural), first appearing in the 16th–17th century during the Russian conquest of Siberia, was initially applied to its southern parts and gained currency …

Free Idel-Ural (Russian: Свободный Идель-Урал; Tatar: Азат Идел-Урал; Erzya: Олячив Рав-Уралонь) is a civic movement of the people of Idel-Ural that aims for independence for the republics of Mordovia, Chuvashia, Mari El, Tatarstan, Udmurtia and Bashkortostan and the integration of these six republics into one union with a common border, economic ...

Idel-Ural (Tatar: Идел-Урал, romanized: Idel-Üral, Russian: Идель-Урал), literally Volga-Ural, is a historical region in Eastern Europe, in what is today Russia.The name literally means Volga-Urals in the Tatar language.The frequently used Russian variant is Volgo-Uralye (Russian: Волго-Уралье). The term Idel-Ural is often used to designate 6 republics of Russia of ...

Reichskommissariat Turkestan (also spelled as Turkistan, abbreviated as RKT) was a projected Reichskommissariat that Germany proposed to create in the Central Asian Republics of the Soviet Union in its military conflict with that country during World War II. Soviet historian Lev Bezymenski claimed that names Panturkestan, Großturkestan ("Greater Turkestan") and Mohammed-Reich …

Conventional wisdom discounting a collapse U.S. analysts. Predictions of the Soviet Union's impending demise were discounted by many Western academic specialists, and had little impact on mainstream Sovietology. For example, Amalrik's book "was welcomed as a piece of brilliant literature in the West" but "virtually no one tended to take it at face value as a piece of political …

Other peoples of the Idel-Ural region took part in these conflicts. In 1773, Muslims in Russia were granted greatly expanded rights. In 1784 Tatar noblemen had equal rights with Russian noblemen (dvoryane). Tatar soldiers took part in all Russian wars, sometimes in national units (as was the case during the Napoleonic Wars).

Pre-1900 droughts and famines. In the 17th century, Russia experienced the famine of 1601–1603, as a proportion of the population, believed to be its worst as it may have killed 2 million people (1/3 of the population).Other major famines include the Great Famine of 1315–17, which affected much of Europe including part of Russia as well as the Baltic states.

This article includes a list of successive Islamic states and Muslim dynasties beginning with the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (570–632 CE) and the early Muslim conquests that spread Islam outside of the Arabian Peninsula, and continuing through to the present day.. The first-ever establishment of an Islamic polity goes back to the Islamic State of Medina, which was …