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Article: Chechens
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- Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
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Chechens
PRONUNCIATION:
CHECH-ens
LOCATION:
Chechnya territory between Russia and Georgia
POPULATION:
Unknown
LANGUAGE:
Chechen
RELIGION:
Islam
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INTRODUCTION
The Caucasus Mountains stretch along a line 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) long between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, and the region includes the southwestern corner of the Russian Federation. The Caucasus region has a long history of conflict and bloodshed among its peoples. The ethnic complexity of the Caucasus is unequalled in Eurasia, and there are nearly sixty distinct peoples living in the area, and fifty languages originate from the region. Many of these groups are quite small in population, yet they have ...