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(Encyclopedia) Gulistan, Treaty of go͞olĭstänˈ [key], 1813, signed by Russia and Iran (Persia) at Gulistan, a village in what is now NW Azerbaijan. It ended the Russo-Persian war that had begun in 1804. Persia c...

(Encyclopedia) Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Komi Republic. ...

(Encyclopedia) Adzhar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: see Adjarian Autonomous Republic, Georgia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Gunib go͞onyēpˈ [key], village, SE European Russia, in Dagestan. Now a mountain resort in the North Caucasus, it was historically important as a natural fortress during the Caucasian wars of the 19...

(Encyclopedia) Eger, Czech Republic: see Cheb.

(Encyclopedia) Friedland: see Frýdlant, Czech Republic. ...

(Encyclopedia) Carlsbad: see Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. ...

(Encyclopedia) Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavia: see Moldova. ...

(Encyclopedia) Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic or Kirghizia: see Kyrgyzstan. ...

(Encyclopedia) Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic or Tadzhikistan: see Tajikistan. ...