Caucasian Imamate

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Was a state established by the imams in Dagestan and Chechnya during the early-to-mid 19th century in the North Caucasus.

Establishment

January 1829: The Caucasian Imamate was founded in 1828 by Ghazi Mohammed by merging several areas that where still ummune of Russian control in the region.

Chronology

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1. Caucasian War

Was a series of Russian military expeditions into northern Caucasus that resulted in the inglobation of this region in the Russian Empire.

January 1831: From 1818 to 1830, the Russian army under Ermolov and his successor as viceroy and field marshal, Count Paskevich, succeeded in taking eastern Dagestan.

January 1860: After a series of defeats, the resistance of the Murids in the east of the North Caucasus finally ended in 1859 with the capture of Imam Shamil.

2. Crimean War

Was a war between Russia and an alliance comprising the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

2.1.Caucasus theatre (Crimean War)

Was the Caucasian theatre of the Crimean War.

November 1855: Ottoman field marshal Omar Pasha crossed the Ingur River on 7 November.

March 1856: The Treaty of Paris of 1856 settled the Crimean War between the Russian Empire: it restored the respective territories of the Russian and the Ottoman Empires to their prewar boundaries, with the exception of southern Bessarabia which was lost by Russia to the Ottoman Empire.

Disestablishment

January 1860: After a series of defeats, the resistance of the Murids in the east of the North Caucasus finally ended in 1859 with the capture of Imam Shamil.