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Most people who call themselves Caucasian know nothing about the Caucasus

Fortunately, Christoph Baumer proves an expert guide to the beautiful, puzzling region known as ‘a mountain of tongues’

The three-nave Alanian church of Shoana from the early 10th century was built in the Byzantine style and stands on a rocky outcrop near the left bank of the Kuban river, Karachay-Cherkessia, Russian Federation [Alexander Svirkin 2018]
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  • History of the Caucasus: Volume I: At the Crossroads of Empires

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    I.B. Tauris, pp. 392, £30

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