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 | | Thus, in the documents of 1558, 1586, 1587 and 1588, Kabardin and Georgian embassies in Moscow are repeatedly mentioned to include interpreters, tolmachs ("tilmanch" means interpreter in Karachai-Balkarian), like "Kabardin Cherkess", "Georgian Cherkess", "Mountain Cherkess", which could be identified, according to the sources, with the representatives of the "Five mountain peoples", i. |
 | | That is why some Balkarian canyon, as the free areas, provided refuge for many Kabardin and other groups not agreeing with the policy of Tsarist Russia in Northern Caucasus, during the massacres of A. Ermolov, the commander of the Caucasian line. |
 | | Many Kabardin and Balkarian princes and peasants gave their children to the families of their friends in Balkaria or Kabarda, thus strengthening the friendship and mutual respect of the two peoples. |
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