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Now I will pass to the description of the Doukhobors who lived in the Akhalkalak area of Tiflis guberniia.
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Akhalkalak (modern Akhalkalaki) is an administrative district in the country of Georgia. Now an independent state, in Imperial Russia, Georgia constituted Tiflis guberniia.
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Tiflis is the old name of modern Tbilisi, the capital of the country of Georgia. In the nineteenth century, it was the capital of Tiflis guberniia, which was a part of the Russian Empire.
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Kars is a town in Turkey. With its surrounding area, at the time of the narrative, it belonged to the Russian Empire. It was one of the areas of Transcaucasian exile of the Doukhobors. Since 1921, it has been a part of Turkey.
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Aleksandropol’ at the time of the narrative was a town in Imperial Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of Armenia, it was renamed Giymri. Giymri is the second largest city of Armenia.
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Verigin, G.V. (2019). The Burning of Weapons in the Akhalkalak Area and the Brutal Massacre by the Government. In: Makarova, V., Ewashen, L. (eds) The Chronicles of Spirit Wrestlers' Immigration to Canada. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18525-1_15
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