"Abkhazia and The Caucasian War: 1810-1864," Topic
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| Tango01 | 10 Mar 2025 5:04 p.m. PST |
"The Caucasian War is the longest-running military conflict in Russian history. One of its features is the absence of generally accepted chronological boundaries. Moreover, if almost all historians recognize 1864 as the final date of this conflict, then there is a wide range of opinions regarding the initial date – 1722, 1763, 1785, 1801, 1817, 1830 and other years. Each of these dates has its own more or less justifiable motives, but the most reasonable is the opinion of historians who attribute the beginning of the great confrontation in the North Caucasus to the era of the Russian Empress Catherine II (1762-1796), when the active advance of the Russian troops and administration began here. At the time in question, Abkhazia was a principality headed by the house of Chachba, or Shervashidze. There were also numerous nobility of various degrees in Abkhazia. The most powerful noble clans were only in nominal dependence on the supreme ruler of the country…" More here
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| TimePortal | 10 Mar 2025 9:23 p.m. PST |
I wrote a couple of articles covering Russia Manifest Destiny Drive to the East. They were in Time Portal Passages that was released through Magweb. |
| Tango01 | 11 Mar 2025 3:52 p.m. PST |
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