Kaitag embroidery, Daghestan, northeast Caucasus, 17th century or earlier. Laid and couched floss silk on cotton, 0.58 x 0.95m

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An intense and long heat wave is underway in the Caucasus,Middle East and Central Asia.
Yesterday Cizre in Turkey rose to 45.3C.
In the next days,some September heat records will be challenged in several countries specially in Russia,Georgia and Kazakhstan. Stay tuned.

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28 June 1942. German armed forces launched a major offensive to seize the Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus, and try to capture the city of Stalingrad. The German defeat in February 1943 was a turning point in the war on the Eastern Front and the beginning of Hitler’s downfall.

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William Simpson led a very interesting life as an artist and correspondent, travelling to Crimea, Caucasus, India, Afghanistan and beyond

Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, Great Wall of China, Fort of Jaigarh, and a photograph of Simpson himself in the Crimea https://t.co/1ZzMFntssf

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The everyday life and economy of the inhabitants of the North Caucasus, 1920s.

Sketches by V.S. Shlepnev.

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Off the coast of the Caucasus, 1885.

Painting by Ivan Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazyan, 1817-1900)

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Faruk Kutlu is a Turkish artist of Chechen origin. Many of his artworks are dedicated to residents of the North Caucasus, who were forced to leave their homeland for foreign lands in the 19th century.

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ZORO WHEN HE VISITS A MARGINAL MEDITERRANEAN SEA OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN LYING BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA; EAST OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA, SOUTH OF THE EAST EUROPEAN PLAIN IN EASTERN EUROPE, WEST OF THE CAUCASUS, AND NORTH OF ANATOLIA IN WESTERN ASIA.

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Mountains Jews in Caucasus, ca. 1890

The Mountain Jews community became established in Ancient Persia, from the 5th century BCE onwards; their language, called Judeo-Tat, is an ancient Southwest Iranian language which integrates many elements of Ancient Hebrew.

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You might be interested in my adaptations of the Nart sagas of the Caucasus, set in ancient Scythia:
https://t.co/awbInqN191

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is considered one of the finest dance troupes in the and has performed in the Russian Federation and abroad. Its repertoire includes many traditional dances with developed choreographs.

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'#Chechen'. A portrait of the engraver’s brother. By Lev Evgrafovich Dmitriev-Kavkazsky (1849-1916). The artist added ‘Kavkazsky’ to his surname, stemming from his nickame ‘Caucasian’, since he was born in the Caucasus, to differentiate himself from other artists named Dmitriev.

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The lammergeier, better known as the Red Bearded Vulture, can be found marauding crags in the high mountains of southern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, as well as Tibet. Photo by Unknown.

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