Shamil — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Shamil: leader of Muslim Dagestan and Chechnya whose resistance delayed Russia's conquest of the Caucasus for 25 years; in 1830 he joined the Muridis, a Sufi brotherhood.

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