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#caucasus — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #caucasus, aggregated by home.social.

  1. The Iran War Is Driving a Realignment in the South Caucasus

    The Iran war has reshuffled regional alliances across the Middle East, but it is also having consequential effects…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Armenia #Azerbaijan #breakingnews #Caucasus #Iran #Turkey
    newsbeep.com/540237/

  2. A night I won't forget — in Mestia, capital of Svaneti, the Svans honor their ancestors by lighting fires near cemeteries and churches and keeping watch until morning. The medieval Svan towers stand witness, as they have for centuries. A living tradition in one of the oldest mountain cultures of the Caucasus, recognized by UNESCO as part of humanity's shared heritage.\n\n#Travel #Photography #Georgia #Caucasus #Svaneti #UNESCO #CulturalHeritage

  3. Russia arrests German woman over bomb plot it says is linked to Ukraine

    Russia said on Monday it had arrested a German woman found with a home-made bomb in her backpack…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Berlin #Caucasus #CentralAsian #FSB #German #is #Kyiv #Moscow #Russia #russian #Stavropol #Ukraine #Ukrainian #Western
    europesays.com/germany/5935/

  4. "Many #libraries and #archives have begun digitizing their collections; whether that be manuscripts, periodicals, rare books, or private archives. Below you’ll find a list of #digitizedcollections, categorized by country, that contain material related to the study of #NorthAfrica, the #MiddleEast, the #Caucasus, and #SouthAsia."
    #DigitalHumanities

    arsheef.org/digitized-collecti

  5. The disinformation campaign against the #Katyn massacre appears to be part of a wider Russian effort to rewrite history.

    Circassian émigré organisations have published an open letter protesting against a film broadcast on state media which distorts the history of the conquest of the #Caucasus in the 19th century – as a reminder, the Russian military campaign lasted almost half a century and resulted in the extermination of 95% of the region’s indigenous population.

    Most were massacred, whilst some fled to Turkey (“muhajir”). The contemporary Russian narrative first portrays the Circassian peoples themselves almost as savage subhumans to justify their conquest, and then speaks of “voluntary migration” and “geopolitical misfortune” when describing what was in fact #genocide and exile.

    Added to this, of course, is Russia as the “bearer of civilisation” (Putin even enshrined this in the constitution in 2020).

    Details: https://habze.life/%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%B2-%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82/ (in Russian)

  6. #CatchOfTheDay
    #OpenAccess on
    #MENAdoc:

    "Transkaukasia: Andeutungen über das Familien- und Gemeindeleben und die socialen Verhältnisse einiger Völker zwischen dem Schwarzen und Kaspischen Meere" by August Haxthausen

    [Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1856]

    dx.doi.org/10.25673/100672

    #armenia #caucasus

  7. #CatchOfTheDay
    #OpenAccess on
    #MENAdoc:

    "Transkaukasia: Andeutungen über das Familien- und Gemeindeleben und die socialen Verhältnisse einiger Völker zwischen dem Schwarzen und Kaspischen Meere" by August Haxthausen

    [Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1856]

    dx.doi.org/10.25673/100672

    #armenia #caucasus

  8. Caucase ajouté à l'annuaire RSS 🇫🇷
    Caucasus added to the RSS directory 🇬🇧

    The Georgia tag has a characteristic: an ambiguous word, relating to a geographical close topic, and few websites display it as a mashup of Caucasus country, U.S. state and person.

    68 RSS feeds
    atlasflux.saynete.net/atlas_de
    To import into a reader XML/OPML/CSV/TXT
    atlasflux.saynete.net/atlas_de

    #RSS #OPML #Caucasus #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Georgia #Chechnya #Ossetia #Nakhchivan #Dagestan #Ingushetia #Abkhazia #Adjara

  9. "Circassian culture was often exoticised within Russia ... we carried a kind of internalised self-doubt, shaped by Soviet and post-Soviet attitudes that framed local culture as backward"

    A story true of every local culture and independent nation that Moscow tried to colonise

    theguardian.com/music/2026/jan

    #Circassians #Caucasus #imperialism #colonisation #genocide #soviethistory #histodons #ussr #soviet #music #russia #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #musichistory #religion #islam #ethnography #punk

  10. Tree rings and charred millet rewrite the Bronze Age history of Tabakoni in western Georgia. Precise dates reveal centuries of rebuilding, wetland farming, and persistence in the Colchian lowlands. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Caucasus #Dendrochronology anthropology.net/p/timber-time

  11. These women fled abuse in Russia's north Caucasus. Then they were found dead.

    Aliya Ozdamirova, the daughter of a former Chechen deputy sports minister, was buried in her home republic of Chechnya on 12 November.

    Ozdamirova had escaped to Georgia weeks earlier after reporting abuse and threats from relatives linked to her bisexuality.

    mediafaro.org/article/20251222

    #Women #Abuse #Femicide #LGBTQ #HonourKilling #HonorKilling #Russia #Georgia #Armenia #Caucasus