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New structures in the Argyllshire Highlands [PDF]
Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 1910 T he district described extends from Spean Bridge in the north to Loch Creagan in the south, and from Loch Linnhe in the west to the margins of the Rannoch Moor and Cruachan granites in the east. The main tectonic feature of this region is the occurrence of two recumbent folds, closing towards the south-east, which ...
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RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2019 The article analyzes transformation processes in the Ossetian ethnic tradition that resulted from the modernization of the Great Reforms era. While the article covers the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the changes in question stretched ...
Sultana G. Ktsoeva
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Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article studies conditions and reasons for recurrence of the mass participation of the highlanders' societies in armed counteraction to the Russian Empire on completion of the active phase of the Caucasian war.
Daria Korobeynikova
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Studia i Materiały, 2016 This paper shows an anthropological analysis of economic initiatives at Nowy Targ Commune in Podhale. Firstly, cultural background is described, in which family and family farm have a crucial meaning. Furthermore, such oppositions as: home–external world/
Marta Sałyga
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Le gaélique en Nouvelle-Écosse
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1991 The Gaelic language that barely survives in Nova Scotia today is the legacy of the Highlanders who came to this land, previously populated by the Micmac tribe and the Acadians, in the late 18th century.
Kenneth E. Nilsen
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THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SLAVIC PEOPLES OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS
Вестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета, 2022 This article describes the evolution of self-consciousness of the peoples of the North Caucasus from the XV century to present time. Given the relationship between the development of ethnic identity with the Soviet nation-building.
Tatiana A. Nevskaya
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Revisiting the Waipu Migration Story – an Atypical and Malleable Migration Narrative
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 2023 In Waipu, New Zealand, the town’s museum and the Waipu Settlers Monument commemorate the migration of some 800 Gaelic-speaking Highlanders to New Zealand’s North Island, via Nova Scotia and Australia in the mid-19th century.
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Кавказология, 2021 The article dwells upon the reasons, process, and consequences of the Khakuchi forced migration to Turkey and the Kuban region after the end of the Caucasian War.
I. H. TKHAMOKOVA
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Кавказология, 2021 The article analyzes the construction of wheeled roads in Balkarian societies in the second half of the 19th century, based on the attracted archival material, which were extremely necessary for the residents of high-mountainous villages and the Russian ...
P. A. KUZMINOV, M. Sh. ABAEVA
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The Young Shepherds School: Training for Restanza in the Italian Alps
MartorThis article analyses an innovative place-sensitive training experience in pastoralism implemented in rural and mountainous Italian areas: the Young Shepherds School. Adopting a methodology based on learning-by-doing and an experiential teaching approach,
Andrea Membretti
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