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	Kabardino-Balkar Republic - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The Kabards speak a Caucasian language and are Muslims (Sunni); the Balkars speak a Turkic language.
		Livestock and poultry are raised, and wheat, corn, hemp, and fruit are grown.
		The Kabards were known in the 9th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Kabardin.html (388 words)

	Caucasus Foundation
		The Kabard Prince sought alliance with the expanding Russian Empire and married his daughter to Tsar Ivan the Fourth.
		After the Russian revolution the Kabard was heavily involved in the civil war involving nationalist parties, foreign interventionalists, Bolsheviks, and the White Voluntary Army.
		Today Kabard constitute almost 50 percent of the population in their republic and oppose a fifty-fify share of power with the Balkar who constitute 10 per cent of the population.
	www.kafkas.org.tr /english/bgkafkas/Ethnicgeography_Kabard.htm (294 words)

	The Kabardino-Balkaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Early in the 16th century, the Kabards came in contact with the Ottomans through the Crimean Khanate, and by the early 1800s they had converted to Sunni Islam.
		Before the Bolshevik Revolution, the Kabards were generally lumped together with the Adygea and the Cherkess as a Circassian people, but in the 1920s, the Circassians were redefined by the Soviets into two ethnic groups, the Cherkess and the Kabards.
		Kabards make up half of the republic's population, but since the titular peoples have a higher growth rate than the Russians, the number of Kabards in 1994 might exceed 50 per cent.
	russia.rin.ru /guides_e/4423.html (737 words)

	NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies
		Kabard society has a strong hierarchical division, and strong traditions of a separate nobility.
		The Kabards are themselves a sub-group of the Circassian peoples, together with Adygey and Cherkess and Abazas.
		Before the Bolshevik Revolution, the Kabards were generally lumped together with the Adygey and the Cherkess as a Circassian people, but in the 1920s, the Circassians were redefined by the Soviets into two ethnic groups, the Cherkess and the Kabards.
	www.nupi.no /cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Kabardinian (490 words)

	ARKAS (Cherkes), term used in Persian, Arabic, and Turkic for the Circassian people of the northwest Caucasus who call ...
		In Soviet usage it designates one of the three groups into which the Circassians were divided in the 1930s: the Adyge¥, the Cherkes, and the Kabard.
		The customary law, dress, and manners of the Kabards have had wide influence throughout the north Caucasus.
		A literary language in Arabic script developed in the 19th century; the script was changed in the 1920s to Latin and to Cyrillic in 1938.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v4f8/v4f8a019.html (2120 words)

	South Ossetia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Under Mongol rule, they were pushed out of their medieval homeland south of the Don river in present-day Russia and part migrated towards and over the Caucasus mountains, to Georgia where they formed three distinct territorial entities.
		Digor in the west came under the influence of the neighboring Kabard people, who introduced Islam.
		Tualläg in the south became what is now South Ossetia, part of the historical Georgian principality of Samachablo, where Ossetians found refuge from Mongol invaders.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/South_Ossetia (1931 words)

	The North Caucasus
		The Russian Czar Ivan IV (known as Ivan the Terrible) apparently for reasons of power, married a Kabard princess, and Russian rulers sided with feudal lords in order to extend power over the Caucasian peoples until armed conquest and collective punishment became the means of expanding dominance and supremacy.
		While Cherkess, Adygei and Kabard today are considered distinct peoples by outsiders, they were originally one indigenous North West Caucasian people.
		At the individual level, there is an anxiety that privatiza tion might attract non-indigenous investment or favour individuals and result in the local population losing their homes, their land and other traditional sources of basic income.
	www.socsci.uci.edu /istudies/Eurasia/Eurasia_spring06/ncauc.html (9831 words)

	The Jamaat Movement in Kabardino-Balkaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There were suggestions of an ethnic component to the December 2004 attack on the Narcotics Police in Nalchik since the attackers were Balkar and the four murdered officers were Kabards, but this was perhaps inevitable since Kabards dominate all the republic's security services.
		It is partly for this reason that efforts are being made by the mainly Balkar Yarmuk Jamaat to reach out to the Kabard (Circassian) community in the name of Islam and a brotherhood of Caucasian "Mountaineers".
		According to a statement from the Jamaat the new leader of the Yarmuk War Council is a Kabard.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369569 (1817 words)

	Happy Dogs Clup, The biggest dog resource center,breeds,cloths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Forced out of their medieval homeland (south of the River Don in present-day Russia) during Mongol rule, they migrated towards and over the Caucasus mountains, where they formed three distinct territorial entities:
		The lands once known as Digor are now part of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic.
		As the time went by, Digor in the west came under Kabard and Islamic influence.
	www.happydogsclup.com /sdmc_Ossetians (639 words)

	Kabarda Kabard or Kabarid are simply alternative ways of referring... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kabarda Kabard or Kabarid are simply alternative ways of referring...
		"Kabarda", "Kabard" or "Kabarid" are simply alternative ways of referring to the "Kabar" people of the northern Caucasus Caucasus more commonly known by the plural term "Kabardin" (or "Kebertei" as they term themselves).
		A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
	www.biodatabase.de /Kabard (136 words)

	Ossetians - WikIran
		Forced out of their medieval homeland (south of the River Don in present-day Russia) during Mongol rule, they migrated towards and over the Caucasus mountains, where they formed three distinct territorial states:
		Digor in the west, which came under the influence of the neighboring Kabard people, who introduced Islam to the Ossetians.
		Tualläg in the south, in the Georgian central region of Shida Kartli, part of which in 1924 became known as South Ossetia.
	www.wikiran.org /w/index.php?title=Ossetians (659 words)

	Why Women Stay
		For example, in the Caucusus the Cherkess also kidnap women in almost the same manner as the Kyrgyz.
		If, for instance, a Kabard… resolved to marry a girl whom he had already chosen, the typical plan of campaign for the capture was devised.
		He assembled his friends, armed and mounted like himself, and went with them to a place where the girls was bound to pass on the way to the well, or elsewhere.
	faculty.philau.edu /kleinbachr/why_women_stay.htm (1263 words)

	Russian 'Taliban' faces uneasy future -DAWN - International; 02 August, 2004
		He had been captured and held there after seeking refuge in Afghanistan from a clamp-down in his southern Russian homeland where mass arrests of young people had occurred following a series of attacks in 1999 that left some 300 people dead.
		Odizhev, a Sunni Muslim of the southern Caucasus' Kabard ethnic group, had attracted Russian authorities' attention after returning from a period of study in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s and then joining a radical community led by local imam Musa Mukozhev.
		In 2000 he was detained by Russian security forces and suffered two weeks of ill treatment before being released.
	www.dawn.com /2004/08/02/int9.htm (597 words)

	Can you say that in Russian, please? - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
		The number of people who speak Evenki, a language not shown on the graph, is only 5 percent of the number of people who speak Lezgi.
		Twice as many people speak Kabard as a first language as those who speak Ingush, another language not shown on the graph.
		The number of people who speak Chechen as a first language is about half the number of people who speak --.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-3445394_ITM (417 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Cherkess originally belonged to a larger Circassian group that includes the neighboring Adygey and Kabard peoples.
		They are also related to the Abkhaz, who waged a bloody independence war from Georgia in 1992 and 1993.
		And a Russian daily, Vremya MN, reported yesterday that a congress of Kabards has announced that if Cherkessia were to become independent, the Kabard people would leave the Kabardino-Balkarya republic and join the Cherkess.
	www.rferl.org /features/1999/09/F.RU.990902140844.asp (707 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They stand for the three methods of fighting: hand-to-hand, weapondry, and aerial combat.
		Suggested fighting knives to be carried by Special Ops personnel are, the M7 bayonet for use with the M-16 rifle, the Air Force pilots' survival knife with sharpening stone, the Marine Corps fighting knife (similar to the Kabard m1000 knife) 2.
		For those of you who prefer weapons that make a bang, here are a few suggestions.
	www.textfiles.com /anarchy/specialw (1132 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Karachay in Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Raiding Mongols drive Karachays into the highlands of the Northern Caucasus.
		Karachays convert to the Islamic faith under the influence of the Kabard people.
		Karachays join in bloody anti-Russian revolts carried out by Caucasian peoples.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=36511 (3855 words)

	Institute of phililogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Institute of Philology was established in 1996 on the base of three faculties: the Faculty of Kabard and Balkar Philology, Philological Faculty and the Faculty of Roman and Germanic
		More than 2000 students, 49 post-graduate students study here.
		The students' and teachers' exchange programs are carried out.
	www.kbsu.ru /Eng/Faculty/Phyl/info.html (175 words)

	Opera Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Samples of modern Adyghe music (in MP3 format).
		Extensive information on the Circassian (Cherkes) people (including the Kabard and Adyge).
		Profile of the Cherkess people, from NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies.
	portal.opera.com /web/?cat=135584 (227 words)

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