AZOV

əzôfˈ, city (1990 est. pop. 82,000), SE European Russia, a port on the Don River delta near the Sea of Azov. It is a rail junction, a light industrial center, and a fishing center. Tourism supplements the economy. Founded as the Greek colony of Tanaïs (3d cent. b.c.), it was a trading center and fortress. It came under Kievan Rus in the 10th cent., was taken by the Cumans in the 11th cent., became a Genoese colony in the 13th cent., and passed to the Turks in 1471. The Don Cossacks held the city (1637–42), but were driven out by the Turks. Peter the Great won the city in 1696 and thus opened southern routes for Russia; he was forced to cede it back to Turkey in 1711. Russia took it again in 1736, but was forced by the Treaty of Belgrade to dismantle the fortress in 1739. Russia secured Azov definitively by the treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji in 1774.

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The Founding of Russia's Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688-1714
Book by Edward J. Phillips; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Russia--History, Naval, Russia--History--Peter I, 1689-1725
Table 19 Ships of Azov and Taganrog, 1709-1713 YEAR OF CONDITION 1710 / SHIPS NAME LOCATION ARRIVAL CHANGES FATE Apostle Paul Azov 1698? Rotten Burned, 1712 Apostle Peter Azov 1696 Rotten Burned, 1712 Degas 1711 Burned, 1712 Dolphin...
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The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress through Coercion in Russia
Book by Evgenii V. Anisimov, John T. Alexander; M. E. Sharpe, 1993
Subjects: Russia--History--Peter I, 1689-1725
...June 1696 the Russian forces entered Azov. This event brought in its wake two consequences...diplomatic, the other strategic. The Azov success gave Russia the right to demand...international prestige. The seizure of Azov was not simply a "raid" a march there...
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Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771
Book by Michael Khodarkovsky; Cornell University Press, 1992
Subjects: Kalmyks--History--17th Century, Kalmyks--History--18th Century, Nomads--Asia, Central--History, Nomads--Soviet Union--History
The Azov Affair Throughout the late 1680s and early...cavalry participate in the first siege of Azov in 1695. Conversely, according to Don cossack...Kalmyks passed information to officials in Azov indicating that preparations to besiege the...
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The Black Sea: A History
Book by Charles King; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Black Sea Region--Civilization, Black Sea Region--History, Black Sea Region--Politics And Government
...campaign against the Ottoman fortress of Azov in 1695 ended in the rout of Russian and...ability to meet the Ottomans on the water. Azov was a critical military target. The fortress...blocking Russian passage to the Sea of Azov, and thus to the wider Black Sea. If...
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A Geography of Manufacturing
Book by E. Willard Miller; Prentice-Hall, 1962
Subjects: Industries, Manufactures
...several plants were constructed along the Azov Sea. Here pipes and tubing for the oil...nearly one-third of the output, and the Azov centers produced about 12 per cent. The...installation of new furnaces in the Dnieper and Azov districts. In the interwar period, seven...
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journal articles on: Azov  - 34 results

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Tsarist Russia's Investment in Transport
Journal article by Stuart Thompstone; The Journal of Transport History, Vol. 19, 1998
...western provinces, the Baltic region and the Azov-Black Sea area. For the seaborne trade...White Sea, the Caspian and the Sea of Azov, the coastal waters offered poor fishing...notably on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov from Greeks.51 To the shortage of human...
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The Making of Post-soviet Ukraine
Journal article by Ernest Raiklin; The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Vol. 34, 2009
Subjects: Bureaucracy, Leadership, North Atlantic Treaty Organization--NATO, Sovereignty
...over the maritime regime of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait).56 These disputes...Back Sea, and even Kerch, on the Sea of Azov). The second reason is the fate of the...over the maritime regime of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. While "Kiev insists...
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A Yiddish Text from Auschwitz: Critical History and the Anthological Imagination
Journal article by David Suchoff; Prooftexts, Vol. 19, 1999
Subjects: Bible--O.T, Hebrew Literature, Jewish Literature, Yiddish Literature
...The author uses with heavy irony here the Hebrew phrase azov ta azov, referring to Exod. 23:5, Ki tir eh amor sona akha rovets ta at masao vehadalta mei azov lo azov ta azov imo . "When you see the ass of one who...
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Conrad, Geopolitcs, and "the Future of Constantinople"
Journal article by Harold Ray Stevens; The Conradian : the Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), Vol. 31, 2006
...English steamship Mavis sailing from Marseilles to the Sea of Azov, Conrad visited Constantinople, observing military bases along...where the Black Sea reaches into the Russian waters of the Sea of Azov, of the spectre of Russia and the Tsarist quest for a guaranteed...
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Royal Scythians and the Slave-trade in Herodotus' Scythia *
Journal article by David Braund; Antichthon, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Archaeology, Books, Exports, History, International trade, Slave trade
...as a real place, located on the north of the Maeotis (Sea of Azov), close to the west of the estuary of the Tanais (Don...across the hinterland from Olbia on the north coast of the Sea of Azov, though we must also reckon with the occasional meetings of...
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Russia Opens Its Inland Waterways
Magazine article by Thomas Land; Contemporary Review, Vol. 277, July 2000
Subjects: France--Relations with Russia, Inland water transportation--Management, Russia--International trade, Shipping industry--Russia, Waterways--Management
...improving along the waterways linking the Caspian Sea with Azov and Azov with Rostov-on-Donau. Several waterway maintenance...vessels and permit links with the Baltic, White, Black and Azov Seas as well as the Caspian. Russia has been operating...
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The Mysterious Fate of Adolph Hitler's "black Sea Fleet"
Magazine article by Stefan Semerdjiev; Sea Classics, Vol. 40, November 2007
...the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by way of the Strait of Kerch. Its strategic...assembled for operation in the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea. Such shallow-water...October in the operations in the Sea of Azov, supporting the German army units. But...
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Russia's New Europe
Magazine article by Janusz Bugajski; The National Interest, Winter 2003
Subjects: Lukashenko, Alexander, Putin, Vladimir, World politics, World politics--Analysis
...constructed a causeway across the Kerch Strait that links the Black and Azov seas between Russias Taman Peninsula and Ukraines Tuzla islet...Strait that legally belong to Ukraine, and it wants to turn the Azov Sea into an "internal water" of the two states despite Ukraines...
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Big-bore Naval Guns Made the Battleship: Ruler of the Seas
Magazine article by John Wesley Botham; Sea Classics, Vol. 44, February 2011
...sent Admiral John Paul Jones with a flotilla of long boats armed with brass ordnance to attack a Turkish squadron on the Sea of Azov; the use of explosive shells gave Jones complete victory Explosive shells became popular thanks to a French artillery officer...
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Academic Impact & Education for Sustainable Development: The Contribution of Its Universities
Magazine article by Eden Mamut; UN Chronicle, Vol. 47, September 2010
Subjects: Black Sea, Sustainable development--Educational aspects, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Universities and colleges--Romania
...facilitated under the framework of this Network. The Black Sea region witnessed environmental disasters like Chernobyl, spills in the Azov Sea, and industrial complexes that look like landscapes from other planets. Since its establishment, the Black Sea Universities...
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INTERNATIONAL: Four Ships Sink in Russian Storms
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 13, 2007
Subjects: Marine accidents, Tankers, Tankers (Ships)
...The same storm in narrow straits between the Black Sea and Azov Sea also sank at least four freighters, three carrying sulphur...tanker, Volganeft-139, had travelled from the Russian port of Azov and was anchored outside Kerch in Ukraines eastern Crimea to...
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Bond Girl Licensed to Thrill Fans
Newspaper article; The Queensland Times (Ipswich, Australia), November 10, 2008
...become James Bonds girl, she still would have gotten some big role." Kurylenko grew up in this quiet city of 140,000 on the Azov Sea in south-eastern Ukraine, where monuments made from giant metal anchors dot the city centre and middle-aged men spend...
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Kurylenko Makes Surprise Leap to Become Blonde Bond's Girl
Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), October 18, 2008
Subjects: Kurylenko, Olga, Motion picture actors and actresses, Movie actors
...become James Bonds girl, she still would have gotten some big roles." Kurylenko grew up in this quiet city of 140,000 on the Azov Sea in south-eastern Ukraine, where monuments made from giant metal anchors dot the city centre and middle-aged men spend...
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Invader Threatens Scottish Angling
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 19, 2010
...report any sightings of the shrimp immediately. A tiny but deadly predator The shrimp originates in the Caspian, Black and Azov seas in the former USSR. It grows to over an inch long, three times larger than native freshwater species. Its razor-sharp...
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World at a Glance
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 20, 2007
Subjects: Execution (Punishment), Executions and executioners, Soldiers
...ignored two fire alarms before reporting the blaze, and it took firefighters nearly an hour to get to the nursing home in the Azov Sea coast village of Kamyshevatskaya, where there is no fire station. Official inspections of the nursing home last year uncovered...
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encyclopedia articles on: Azov  - 36 results

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Azov, Sea Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AZOV, SEA OF Gr. Maiotis, Lat. Palus Maeotis...which is nearly isolated from the Sea of Azov by Arabat Tongue, a narrow sandspit. The...to make the sea more shallow. The Sea of Azov has important fisheries and accounts for a...
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Azov
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AZOV zof , city (1990 est. pop. 82,000...port on the Don River delta near the Sea of Azov. It is a rail junction, a light industrial...dismantle the fortress in 1739. Russia secured Azov definitively by the treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji...
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Russo-Turkish Wars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Turko-Tatars by capturing the fortress of Azov. In the Northern War (1700 1721) Sultan...conflict against Russia in 1710 and regained Azov by the Peace of the Pruth (1711). France...with Austria. The Russians recaptured Azov and won a spectacular success in Moldavia...
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Ukraine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...southwest; on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south; on Russia in the east and...borders everywhere except in the Sea of Azov. In September, Russia began building...for joint use of the strait, declared Azov an internal body of water, and called...
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Peter I , Czar of Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...make it a great power. His earliest venture was the conquest of Azov from the Ottomans in 1696, after an unsuccessful attempt in...Livonia. Peters conquests in the south were less permanent. Azov was restored to the Ottoman Empire in 1711; Derbent, Baku...
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