The Karachays (from Karachay-Balkar 'mountaineers') - are a Turkic people inhabiting North Caucasus. Their predominant religion is Islam. For the most part, the Karachays lived in communes. The appearance of...
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Dervishes
Dervishes are Sufi Muslisms. They lead an ascetic lifestyle and devote their lives to Allah. Most dervish orders originate from the Mevlevi order. It is the oldest dervish fraternity, founded...
Corn in Georgia
Corn appeared in Georgia around the sixteenth century, after it had been imported to Europe from what is today Mexico. Corn dishes plays an important role in Georgian cuisine. It...
Vineyard in Georgia
Georgia boasts 525 indigenous (autochthonic) grape varieties, out of a total of 2500 existing in the world. It is in Georgia that the first traces of winemaking were discovered -...
Maxim Artemovich Ananov
Maxim Artemovich Ananov, was an Armenian businessman and philantropist who lived at the turn of 19ер and 20th century. Thanks to modern technology, Ananov's Rioni plantations annually yielded 600-700 thousand...
Shamil
Shamil was elected to lead the Caucasian Imamate in September 1834. His first reign would last five years, until the loss Akhoulgo, the settlement that acted as the Caucasians headquarters....