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Title Russian embassies to the Georgian kings, 1589-1605. Volume 1 / edited by W.E.D. Allen.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., 138
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., 138.
Note Reprint of the 1970 publication.
"Texts translated by Anthony Mango."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF MAPS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND ON THE SPELLING OF PROPER NAMES""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND""; ""2. GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND""; ""3. THE TEREK ROUTE THROUGH THE CAUCASUS""; ""4. 'THE FREE TEREK COSSACKS'""; ""5. 'TEREK-TOWN'""; ""6. THE TRIBES OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS: CIRCASSIANS AND KABARDANS""; ""7. THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS: OSETIANS, CHECHENS AND INGUSHES""; ""8. DAGHESTAN: KUMUKHS AND KUMYKS, KAYTAKHS AND AVARS""; ""9. THE GEORGIAN KINGDOMS""
""10. early relations of kakheti with russia""""11. shirvan and azerbaijan: the persian presence in caucasia""; ""the texts: part i""; ""the embassy of zvenigorodski and antonov (1589-90)""; ""1. instructions for the road""; ""2. journey through kabarda""; ""3. the road to gremi""; ""4. negotiations withking alexander""; ""5. matters temporal and spiritual""; ""6. world affairs and the falconer's son""; ""7. armour and argamaks""; ""commentaries on the text""; ""1. monasteries and cathederals in and around moscow ""; ""2. some russian military and administrative terms""
""3. religeous contacts between russia and georgia""""4. the kizilbashes""; ""5. russian relations with the central asian khanates""; ""6. the russian conquest of sibir""; ""7. the towns along the volga route""; ""8. shah abbas and his georgian connections""; ""9. derbent and baku""; ""10. furs, fish teeth and cuirasses""; ""11. murat giray""; ""12. the princely families of kabarda""; ""13. the term kholopy""; ""14. shikh murza of the okok and 'the little mountain lands'""; ""15. metsk batsk""; ""16. relations between the circassians and the criean khans""
""17. the personality of solokh of little kabarda""""18. the itinerary of the amassadors from sunzhafort to daryal""; ""19. the daryal gorge: its history and topography""; ""20. (a) 'the great settlement of soni and the monastery of the immaculate mother of god'""; ""20. (b) 'aristop (aristov) prince of soni': note on the eristavs of the ksani and the aragvi""; ""20. (c) 'soni-land' ( -sonskaya zemlya): note on the ethnology of the eristavate of aragvi""; ""21. the rivers of kakheti: the aragvi, the iora (iori) and the alazani""; ""22. the horses called argamaks""
""23. st george of alaverdi""""24. the sacred decorations of a georgian church (am)""; ""25. the town of krym = gremi""; ""26. on royal falcons and falconry in russia and georgia""; ""27. king simon i of kartli""; ""28. the villiage of tog or torga""; ""29. the organisation of the kakhian army""; ""30. the banner of kisik (g. kisiqi)""; ""31. the town of zaem, zagem, zegan, zakam""; ""32. genza and areshi""; ""33. some churches and bishoprics of kakheti""; ""34. the origin of the name 'white tsar'""; ""35. the title 'krym-shevkal'""; ""36. prince suliman""; ""37. georgian merchants abroad""
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Subject International relations.
International relations.
Georgia (Republic) -- Foreign relations -- Russia.
Georgia (Republic)
Russia.
Russia -- Foreign relations -- Georgia (Republic)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Allen, W. E. D. (William Edward David), 1901-1973.
Bi͡elokurov, S. A. (Sergi͡eĭ Aleksi͡eevich), 1862-1918.
Mango, Anthony.
Other Form: Print version: Allen, W.E.D. Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings, 1589-1605 : Volume I. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ©1971 9781409445999
ISBN 9781409432463 (electronic book)
1409432467 (electronic book)
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