'caucasus' yielded 16 matches.

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1. Faberge Egg A Fabergé egg is one of 50 (52 if we count the unfinished Karelian Birch and Tsarevich Constellation eggs) Easter gifts made by Peter Carl Fabergé between 1855 and 1917 for the Russian Tsars and their family members. Faberge Eggs obtain...
2. Gagauzia On December 23, 1994, Gagauzia became a "national-territorial autonomous unit" within Moldavia. The date is now a Gagauzian holiday. Many European human-rights organizations have recognized Gagauzia as a successful model for resolving ethnic conflict...
3. North Caucasus: Stavropol Krai At one time Stavropol and its hinterland (the Stavropol Krai) was a very important location in the Tsarist campaigns to conquer the North and South Caucasus. It is now an important manufacturing center, administrative center, and promoter of the Nort...
4. The Empires and Enclaves of Europe If you live in an empire it may not matter that you don't like your neighbors much. You are both too busy fighting the remote government or trying to pay your exorbitant taxes. But what if that emperor goes away and you now live in a nation-state cre...
5. Ushguli Welcome to an amazing, ancient little community set high in the Caucasus mountains of the Republic of Georgia. Ushguli is the end of the road in Svaneti province, a popular tourist destination, with thousand-plus-year-old watchtowers - scenery lookin...
6. The Ottoman Empire and its Political Legacy Of all empires, the Ottoman Empire seems to have left behind the most complex and prolific checkerboard of enclaves and exclaves. The pattern of pockets of peoples left behind in the territories of the successor nation-states is compounded by the rel...
7. Nagorno-Karabakh A very beautiful and mountainous region, inhabited mostly by people of Armenian stock, wholly surrounded by Azerbaijan (or part of Azerbaijan, depending on your point of view). A source of great tension and violence. Armenia and Azerbaijan are techni...
8. The International Rescue Committee We're an organization that goes to war zones to rescue and then rebuilds lives. Founded in 1933, the IRC is a global leader in emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights, protection, post-conflict development, resettlement services...
9. The North Caucasus Region of the Russian Federation This lens points to the ten constituent regions (Republics, krais, oblasts) which make up Russia's troubled North Caucasus economic region.
10. North Caucasus: The Republic of Adygea The Adyghe (their name) or Circassian (our name) people live in several of the North Caucasian republics. In Adygea itself they are now less than 1/3 of the population, (60% Russian) and are totally surrounded by Krasnodar Krai.
11. Eveything You Ever Wanted To Know About Kalmykia Kalmykia is remarkable for being the only country in Europe within which the dominant religion has been Buddhism. It has also become famous because its current government has made it the chess center of the world.
12. Naxcivan The Azerbaijani capital, Baku, is at the beak, flying into the Caspian Sea. The detached feather at the tail is Naxcivan, an "exclave" of Azerbaijan proper.
13. The South Caucasus Region and the Legacy of Empire This lens indexes the post-Soviet states of the South Caucasus, their enclaves and exclaves.
14. Nation of Georgia Let's get this straight from the start for American readers. This lens is not about the state of Georgia in the southern USA. The resources here are related to a sovereign nation in the Caucusus Mountains south of Russia and north of Armenia, Turkey a...
15. Caucasian Rugs The color, design, and overall impact of Caucasian Rugs makes them very popular. The Caucasus have ben a region in a state of flux for over 200 years. Early on I suspected that areas such as Karabagh which were historically majority Moslem Azeri Turk...
16. Abkhazia Abkhazia is in the SOUTH Caucasus. It is on the NORTH shore of the Black Sea. It is (or was) a province in the WEST of the country of Georgia. The Caucasus Mountains (and the country of Russia) lie to the north and north-east.