Farid Shafiyev: Resettling the Borderlands: State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in South Caucasus. Montreal–Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018, 330 o.

The events of the mid-60s 19th century became a turning point for peoples Caucasus in many respects. There are fundamental changes socio-political and cultural life region. All this was due to both energetic actions Russian government that took place among Caucasian peoples. With inclusion into Empire, it necessary modify autocracy Using various "levers", tsarism purposefully realized its main ...

The Alans, an Iranian-speaking people attested in the chronicles of ancient world from first century AD, played important role Caucasian region until Mongol invasion. They lived plains north mountain ridge, but after invasion and emergence Kabardian power region, they moved more towards high mountains began to live gorges Central Caucasus. But memory Alan persisted for long time deriving Alans ...

An analysis of eight Alu insertion loci (ACE, ApoA1, PV92, TPA25, NBC27, NBC102, NBC148 and NBC182) was carried out in three ethnic groups of the South Caucasus (Abkhazians, Armenians and Georgians). Genetic differentiation between these groups (Gst = 1%) was half as much as in European populations and four time less than in populations of Dagestan. Although it was not possible to determine a c...

The different opinions have been put forward about the neolithization of Azerbaijan. Some researchers note that South Caucasus’ Neolithic culture is related to Mesopotamia by origin; some this developed based on local traditions. New researches conducted in territory Nakhchivan are essential for solving these problems. excavations Kultepe I, located near city Nakhchivan, led discovery new facts...