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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

    Christoph Baumer

    I.B. Tauris, pp. 392, £30

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