Kabardia
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Was a Circassian polity in the Caucasus. It was conquered by Russia during its Caucasus Military Conquests of the XIX century.
Establishment
January 1454: In 1453, the territory of Kabardia, located in the North Caucasus region, gained better political organization under the leadership of the Kabardian princes. The society had a feudal social structure and had been a political entity since at least the 15th century.
Chronology
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Were a series of wars between Persia and Russia in the period 1651-1828.
1.1.Russo-Persian War (1722-23)
Was a war between the Russian Empire and Safavid Iran, triggered by the Tsar's attempt to expand Russian influence in the Caspian and Caucasus regions.
June 1724: The Treaty of Constantinople (1724) concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, dividing large portions of the Safavid Iran between them. Iranian lands located on the east of the conjunction of the rivers Kurosh (Kur) and Aras were given to the Russians. These comprised the provinces in northern mainland Iran (Gilan, Mazandaran and Astrabad), the territories in Dagestan (amongst which Derbent), as well as Baku and the territory surrounding it in the Shirvan province.
Was a series of Russian military expeditions into northern Caucasus that resulted in the inglobation of this region in the Russian Empire.
January 1775: Originally, Russia did not want to conquer the North Caucasus, which was difficult to access, which also did not belong to the Ottoman Empire, but only wanted to control a paved connecting road to Transcaucasian Georgia, the Georgian Military Road, which Russia had expanded. Therefore, in 1774, the two principalities of the Kabardians bordering on this road, the "Great Kabarda" and "Small Kabarda", were declared a protectorate (dependent protective state).
January 1792: In Chechnya Russia met more determined resistance from the preacher of the mystical school of Islam, Sufism, Sheikh Mansur Ushurma, who drove the Russian army out of northern Chechnya again in 1785-91.
January 1818: Russian troops under Yermolov conquered the flat northern Chechnya and founded the Grozny fortress.
January 1501: In 1500, the lower reaches of the Terek River in modern Northern Dagestan belonged to the Principality of the Kumyks. This period marked the state formation in the North Caucasus during the 15th and 16th centuries, with various local rulers and princes playing significant roles in shaping the region's political landscape.
January 1811: In 1810, Russian General Aleksey Yermolov led the campaign to impose Russian authority on the Ingush people in Ingushia.
January 1828: Russia expands into the current regions of Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia through treaties with locals and voluntary entries of local tribes.
November 1828: The territories corresponding to modern-day Krasnodar Territory and Karachay-Cherkess Republic become part of the Russian Empire.
Disestablishment
January 1831: Kabardia came under Russian control between about 1769 and 1830.
