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Grozny
Grozny or Groznyy , city (2006 est. pop. 230,000), capital of Chechnya , SE European Russia, in the northern foothills of the Greater Caucasus. It is the center of Chechnya's oil fields, linked by pipelines to Makhachkala on the Caspian Sea, to Tuapse on the Black Sea, and to Horlivka in... Read more |
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Oprichnina
OPRICHNINA Tsar Ivan IV's personal domain between 1565 and 1572, and by extension the domestic policy of that period. The term oprichnina (from oprich, "separate") denoted a part of something, usually specific landholdings of a prince or a prince's widow. Ivan IV (the Terrible, or Grozny)... Read more |
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Chechnya
Chechnya or Chechen Republic , republic (1990 est. pop. 1,300,000, with neighboring Ingushetia), c.6,100 sq mi (15,800 sq km), SE European Russia, in the N Caucasus. Grozny is the capital. Prior to 1992 Chechnya and Ingushetia comprised the Checheno-Ingush Republic. The mountainous region... Read more |
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Battle of Prestonpans
Prestonpans, battle of, 1745. Charles Edward Stuart's first and critically important victory in the '45 rising was gained on 21 September at Prestonpans, on the coast east of Edinburgh. The Hanoverian army of some 2,300 men, under the command of Sir John Cope, had been ferried from Inverness to... Read more |
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Luigi Alemanni
Luigi Alamanni , 1495-1556, Italian poet and patriot. He was a friend of Macchiavelli, who may have encouraged his conspiracy (1522) against Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (later Pope Clement VII). Its failure forced him to flee to the French court. He returned (1527) to Florence to fight the Medici,... Read more |
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Contingency
Contingency A proposition is necessary when there is no possible case in which it is false ("a vixen is a female fox"). A proposition is contingent when it is true in some cases and false in others ("it is raining now"). By extension, a state of affairs is contingent if it could have been other... Read more |
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Mengistu Haile Mariam
Mengistu Haile Mariam , 1937-, military ruler of Ethiopia (1974-91). Mengistu, an army officer, participated prominently in Emperor Haile Selassie 's overthrow (1974). Emerging through violence as preeminent military ruler by 1977, he sought Soviet aid, established a socialist People's Republic and... Read more |
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