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13th century military tower in Byalgan (Ingushetia)
Sharoy towers (Chechnya)
Ancient settlement in Hoy (Chechnya)
Ruins of the medieval settlement Erzi (Ingushetia)

The Vainakh tower architecture (Chechen: Вайнахи бӀаьвнийн архитектура; Ingush: Вайнахи Гlала архитектур/Вайнахи вовнийн архитектур), also called Nakh architecture, is a characteristic feature of ancient and medieval architecture of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

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Vainakh tower architecture

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The Vainakh tower architecture (Chechen: Вайнахи бӀаьвнийн архитектура; Ingush: Вайнахи Гlала архитектур/Вайнахи вовнийн архитектур), also called Nakh...

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Tower house

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Svan tower houses are found in Chazhashi and Ushguli. See Vainakh tower architecture for details. The Yemeni city of Shibam has hundreds of tower houses...

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Akhmat Tower

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design of the building is heavily influenced by Vainakh tower architecture, modeled after the military towers. The building will incorporate offices, apartments...

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Svan towers

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Svan towers. Chazhashi Mestia Ushguli Vainakh tower architecture World Heritage List: Upper Svaneti -- No 709...

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Index of architecture articles

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countries Urban planning in Nazi Germany Usonia Uthland-Frisian house Vainakh tower architecture Valencian Art Nouveau Valencian Gothic Vancouver Special Vancouverism...

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Ingush towers

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Ghalghai Irish round tower Svan towers Tower house Vainakh tower architecture ghālash (sing. ghāla) refer to residential towers, while vhóvnash (sing...

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Nakh peoples

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characteristic feature of Vainakh architecture in the Middle Ages, rarely seen outside Chechnya and Ingushetia, was the Vainakh tower. This was a kind of multi-floor...

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Swastika

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swastika. Petroglyphs with swastikas were depicted on medieval Vainakh tower architecture (see sketches by scholar Bruno Plaetschke from the 1920s). Thus...

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Mutso

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the family history started together with the founding of Mutso. Vainakh tower architecture Mtskheta-Mtianeti Shatili Khone Shetekauri Dargavs Shorena Kurtsikidze...

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List of house types

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Albanian tower house Peel tower or Pele tower: fortified tower houses in England and Scotland used as keeps or houses Vainakh tower: a tower house found...

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Chechens

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became a significant power in the region in the first millennium BC. The Vainakh in the east had an affinity to Georgia, while the Malkh Kingdom of the...

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Ingush people

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archaeological, historical and architectural monuments confirming the centuries-old Christianity among the Ingush in particular, and the Vainakhs in general. The scientist's...

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Mongol invasions of Durdzuketi

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invasions that the military defense towers that one associates today with the Vainakh population (see Nakh architecture) came into being. Many served simultaneously...

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History of Chechnya

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invasions that the military defense towers that one associates today with the Vainakh population (see Nakh architecture) came into being. Many served simultaneously...

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Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush

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ġalġay ə maxkaxbaxar), was the Soviet forced transfer of the whole of the Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) populations of the North Caucasus to Central Asia...

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Slavic paganism

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incorporated into Slavic Christianity (which manifested itself in the architecture of the Russian Church, icon painting, etc.), and the worship of Slavic...

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Druid

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killed by his own grandson by imprisoning his only daughter Eithne in the tower of Tory Island, away from any contact with men. Bé Chuille – daughter of...

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Thracian religion

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considered the Athenians as his kinsmen when they were about to enter the king's tower to participate in a feast. Further associations of Zis with kingship are...

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Georgian mythology

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Iberia. Later influences include the mythologies of the Ancient Greeks, the Vainakh peoples and Iranians – the last-named comprising both the belief systems...

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Alkun

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позднесредневековых вайнахских воинов" [Ringed armor of Late Medieval Vainakh warriors]. In Mamaev, Khamid; Muzhukhoev, Maksharip; Chahkiev, Djabrail...

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Historical Vedic religion

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Prussian Latvian Lithuanian Basque Caucasian Circassian Georgian Ossetian Vainakh Celtic Irish Etruscan Germanic Anglo-Saxon Frankish Gothic Norse Greek...

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Ancient Mesopotamian religion

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astrology, written code of law, organised medicine, advanced agriculture and architecture, and the calendar. They created the first city-states such as Uruk, Ur...

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Druze

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ISBN 9780521892230. Retrieved 1 September 2013. Totten, Michael J. (2014). Tower of the Sun: Stories from the Middle East and North Africa. Belmont Estate...

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Pkhovi

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of the village Shuapkho (shua- meaning "middle" in Georgian), and the Vainakh designation for the Khevsurs – Pkhia (Пхий). Khevsureti Tuite, Kevin (2002)...

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1220s

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Jalal al-Din Mangburni defeat a coalition of Georgians, Kipchaks, Alans, Vainakhs and Laks (some 40,000 men) at Bolnisi (modern Georgia). King Sukaphaa establishes...

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Women as theological figures

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as possible wife by Henry VIII Anne Askew (1521–1546), tortured in the Tower of London and martyred in Smithfield for Protestantism Joan Bocher (?–1550)...

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