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“They defeated each other with an excess of cordiality and readiness to facilitate the most convenient movement of troops…”: Crimean Tatars and Karaites in the Crimean (Eastern) War of 1853–1856 and their assistance to the Russian army [PDF]
Крымское историческое обозрениеSeptember 2024 marked 170 years since the landing of the Allied expeditionary force in Eupatoria, which marked the beginning of the 1854 campaign in the Crimean (Eastern) War of 1853–1856.
Dmitry Prokhorov
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The Armed Forces of the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War: Evaluating in the Past and in the Present
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016 Military actions of allies in the Crimean War of 1853-1856 had the coalition character, and therefore it is quite problematic to evaluate the contribution of individual troops objectively.
Semen N. Osipovskiy
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Tatars on the military service to the Ottoman sultans
Золотоордынское обозрениеResearch Objectives: Studying the contributions of the Crimean and Nogai Tatars to the military efforts of the Ottoman state from the moment that the Crimean Khanate fell under the Turkish protectorate until the mid-19th century.
Seidametov E.Kh., Sheykhumerov А.А.
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Who Blew the Balaklava Bugle?: The Charge of the Light Brigade and the Afterlife of the Crimean War
19, 2015 The signal event of the Crimean War, the Charge of the Light Brigade, transpired on 25 October 1854. Its reverberations would, however, last long after, as a battle that was waged in the popular press and in auction rooms across the twentieth century ...
Lara Kriegel
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Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Synoptic Patterns of Dry‐Hot Winds (Sukhoviys) in Ukraine
International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.This study analyses dry‐hot winds, or sukhoviys, a recurrent phenomenon during the warm season across Ukraine that contributes to rapid moisture loss from soil and vegetation. The activity of sukhoviy events was assessed using the introduced Sukhoviy Station Index, accounting for their meteorological characteristics and frequency of occurrence.
Inna Semenova +1 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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New archival data on the authorship of the anonymous poem “To the Present War” (1854) [PDF]
Литературный факт, 2018 The paper introduces into scientific circulation all the lists of the poem “To the Present War” (“Vot, v voinstvennom azarte...”) anonymously published in different editions in 1854 and kept in P.A. Vyazemsky’s archive. It analyzes their variant readings
Nikolay Vasilyev, Dmitriy Zhatkin
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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Geolocation reveals wintering sites of near‐extinct Caucasian breeding sea duck
Ibis, EarlyView.We obtained 14 sets of full annual cycle geolocator tracks from 13 individual nesting female Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca from the relict Caucasian population at their last remaining breeding site, Lake Tabatskuri, Georgia. Results showed that females wintered at widespread discrete localities in Ukraine, around the coasts of the Crimean Peninsula and
Nika Paposhvili +3 more
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Reporting the Crimean War: Misinformation and Misinterpretation
19, 2015 There is probably no important event in times past whose historiography is free from misinformation, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or mistakes; and in this regard the Crimean War is no exception to this rule.
Mike Hinton
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