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10 hours ago · The Russian Terek Cossack Host was established in lowland Chechnya in 1577 by free Cossacks who were resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. In 1783, the Russian Empire and the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti signed the Treaty of Georgievsk , under which Kartli-Kakheti became a Russian protectorate . [31]
10 hours ago · An empire is an aggregate of many separate states or territories under a supreme ruler or oligarchy. This is in contrast to a federation, which is an extensive state voluntarily composed of autonomous states and peoples. An empire is a large polity which rules over territories outside of its original borders.
10 hours ago · Extraterritorial and major domestic deployments. Portions of this list are from the Congressional Research Service report RL30172, version of October 5, 2004.. 1775–1799. 1775–1783: American Revolutionary War: an armed struggle for secession from the British Empire by the Thirteen Colonies that would subsequently become the United States.
1 day ago · Definition. The early modern period is a subdivision of the most recent of the three major periods of European history: antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern period. The term "early modern" was first proposed by medieval historian Lynn Thorndike in his 1926 work A Short History of Civilization as a broader alternative to the Renaissance.
10 hours ago · James Scott Garner (born Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor.He played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, which included The Great Escape (1963) with Steve McQueen; Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964) with Julie Andrews; Cash McCall (1960) with Natalie Wood; The Wheeler Dealers (1963) with Lee Remick; Darby's Rangers (1958) with ...
1 day ago · History of the orders of knighthood of the British empire, Vol iii. London. Perkins, Jocelyn (1920). The Most Honourable Order of the Bath : a descriptive and historical account (2nd ed.). London: Faith Press. Risk, James C. (1972). The History of the Order of the Bath and its Insignia. London: Spink & Son.
10 hours ago · Seoul, capital city of the Korean Empire, in 1905. After Gojong's proclamation of Korea as the Korean Empire in 1897, Seoul was temporarily called Hwangseong (황성; 皇城), literally "the imperial city." Much of modern development around this era was propelled by trade with foreign countries like France and the United States.
