Abstract:

From the Anapa Peninsula, which separates the eastern part of the Black Sea and the Azak Sea, to the Apsheron Peninsula on the coast of the Hazard Sea, and covering the Great Caucasus ranges and the lands on both sides of these mountains (Dursun 2001: 157), the Caucasus has been constantly exposed to external influences throughout the history for reasons such as its proximity to Asia, Europe and Africa, its historic trade routes and its existence on the migration routes in the east-west and north-south direction, and this situation has given the region a great diversity and cultural wealth. The Caucasus, with its strategic and geopolitical importance and its underground and ground wealth, has also been the scene of the domination struggle of the great powers throughout the history. 16 is. In the second half of the century, the Russians began to flow into the region, increasing their forces in the region, in the period of Tsar Petro I (1682-1725) they occupied some settlements on the northern Caucasus and the Hazard Sea coast. Although the Rare Shah struggled to regain his sovereignty in the Caucasus, the political unity in the region was completely broken after his murder in 1747. The Russians, who took advantage of this political disintegration, occupied Eastern Osetia, Cerkhistan, Kabarta and Eastern Georgia between 1770-1801. 18 . Though the Kaciers, who took domination in Iran at the end of the century, tried to restore domination in the southern Caucasus, the failure to success in the wars with the Russians between 18014-1813 and 1826-1828 led to the completion of the domination of Russia in the southern Caucasus (Aliyev 2001: 159).