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" Chechnya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Kemper, Michael
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AL
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English
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1061246
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ALei1643
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Kemper, Michael
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Chechnya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Kemper, Michael
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(5,319 words)
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Illustration 1. Map of Chechnya from the Perry Castañeda Collection of the Library of the University of Texas. Chechnya , historically the territory of the Chechens—who call themselves Nokhchi, or, together with the Ingush, Vainakh, “our people”—is situated between the main Caucasus range in the south and the Terek River in the north and includes various settlements and pastures north of the Terek (Illustration 1). It comprises mountains, foothills, and plains crossed by several tributaries to the Sunzha and Terek rivers (roughly from the Fortanga, in the west, to
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Islam.
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ALei1643.pdf
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