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The role of Anatolia in the origin of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot illustrated by land snails in the genus Oxychilus

open access: yesCladistics, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 83-102, February 2022., 2022
Abstract Several taxa that are distributed in the Caucasus and/or the adjacent Pontic Mountains also have representatives in the East Mediterranean region. These disjunctions could have been caused by long‐distance dispersal or be the result of extinctions in Central Anatolia caused by the aridification of the Anatolian Plateau during the Pliocene.
Marco T. Neiber   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Declarations of Independence after the Cold War: Abandoning grievance and avoiding rupture

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1268-1285, October 2021., 2021
Abstract Declarations of Independence (DoIs) tend to employ the grievance topoi as a means to legitimize their demands for statehood. We find, however, that after the end of the Cold War a new subgenre of DoIs emerged, which deploys topoi not referring to grievances against the host state.
Argyro Kartsonaki, Aleksandar Pavković
wiley   +1 more source

The genomic origin of Zana of Abkhazia

open access: yesAdvanced Genetics, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2021., 2021
The displaced origins of a misconstrued person. Face reconstruction from Tkhina‐75 skull. Bottom right: artistic reconstruction after consideration of contemporary witness accounts. Abstract Enigmatic phenomena have sparked the imagination of people around the globe into creating folkloric creatures.
Ashot Margaryan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Direct Versus Indirect Causation as a Semantic Linguistic Universal: Using a Computational Model of English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, and K'iche’ Mayan to Predict Grammaticality Judgments in Balinese

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 4, April 2021., 2021
Abstract The aim of this study was to test the claim that languages universally employ morphosyntactic marking to differentiate events of more‐ versus less‐direct causation, preferring to mark them with less‐ and more‐ overt marking, respectively (e.g., Somebody broke the window vs. Somebody MADE the window break; *Somebody cried the boy vs.
I Nyoman Aryawibawa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 10, Issue 20, Page 11192-11216, October 2020., 2020
Little is known about how anthropogenic processes have affected the evolution of tree species with a long‐time‐scale history of human utilization such as common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.). In this study, we evaluated the impact of isolation by distance processes, landscape heterogeneity, and cultural boundaries
Paola Pollegioni   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

POLITICAL PROCESSES INPOST-SOVIET SPACE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF GEORGIA, ABKHAZIA, SOUTH OSSETIA, UKRAINE)

open access: yesСовременная наука и инновации, 2022
The article is devoted to a complex socio-political processes in Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Ukraine. It reveals the most typical errors and omissions in the national policy and interethnic processes.
Valeriy Dudarovich Dzidzoev
doaj  

Abkhazian crisis: from the Concept of Awareness of Common Threats to the Building of an "Abkhazian Security Community"

open access: yesGrani, 2020
This article is part of a research conducted as part of the Support Program for Doctoral Studies of Shota Rustaveli Georgian National Science Foundation.This article is part of a research conducted as part of the Support Program for Doctoral Studies of Shota Rustaveli Georgian National Science Foundation.Name of the research – "Interdisciplinary ...
Alexander Rusetsky, Olga Dorokhina
openaire   +2 more sources

Przemiany narodowościowe w Abchazji od II połowy XIX do początku XXI wieku

open access: yesSprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2018
Ethnic changes in Abkhazia (2nd half of the 19th century– beginning of the 21st century) Main aim of the paper is to analyse ethnic changes that took place in Abkhazia from the 60s of the 19th century to the present.
Andrzej Jakubowski
doaj   +1 more source

Unitarianism with Attributes of Regionalism – Certain Aspects and Relevant Georgian Context [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Constitutional Law, 2022
The territorial organisation of Georgia in the current context is difficult to describe with complete precision, but it can be defined as unitarianism with regional autonomies. In this respect, the regional autonomies are the Autonomous Republic of Ajara
Tinatin Erkvania
doaj  

TRADE CONTACTS OF ABKHAZIANS AND THE NEIGHBORING REGIONS OF THE CAUCASUS DURING XIX-XX CENTURIES

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article deals with the topic of trade contacts between Abkhazians and residents of neighboring Abkhazia regions of the North Caucasus during XIX and XX centuries.
R. Sh. Zelnitskaya (Shlarba)
doaj  

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