Archive: July 2020 (1 Post)

Refined by: (Author) Mike Klein; (Year) 2020; (Month) July

This section of a plate from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum presents the Caucasus as understood by a 16th century Flemish cartographer. The Black Sea coastal town of Zichia is a medieval reference to the former kingdom of the Adyga, and likely stands for the town of Sochi today. Geography and Map Division.

Let the Games Begin! (Russian Style)

July 8, 2020

Posted by: Mike Klein

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, occurred on both the location and the sesquicentennial of the Circassian genocide in 1864.

Posted in: European History

Refined by: (Author) Mike Klein; (Year) 2020; (Month) July