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Sheikh Mansur belonged to the Elistanzkhoy teip and was married to Chachi with whom he had three children at the time of his arrest - a son Yasa (8 years old), and two daughters Ragmet (4 years old) and Namet (a year old). [8] The descendants of Sheikh Mansur also took a Y-DNA test which showed a typical Elistanzkhoy Y-DNA result in L-M20. [9]
The siege of Kizlyar in July 1785 was the second major confrontation between the Russian Empire and the forces of Sheikh Mansur.The North Caucasians hoped to capture the fortress of Kizlyar, which was the Russian economic center of the North Caucasus.
The Sheikh Mansur movement, [b] was a major war between the Russian Empire and the North Caucasians, caused by the Chechen religious and military leader Sheikh Mansur, who opposed the Russian expansionist policies and wanted to unite the North Caucasians under one, single, Islamic state.
Mansour Abdulrahim Al-Saleem (Arabic: منصور آل سليم; born 16 March 1988) is a Saudi Arabian weightlifter. [1] He won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships. [2] He won another bronze medal in the men's 55 kg event at the 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Manama, Bahrain. [3]
Sheikh Mansur, born Ucherman, was an ethnic Chechen from the Elistanzhkhoy teip. He was born into a peasant family in Aldy, a large village situated on the Sunzha River . Local traditions recount that in his youth, he studied the Quran and Arabic, but due to his family's lack of wealth, he could not pursue an Islamic education.
The Sheikh Mansur Battalion as well as the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion held the defense near Kyiv and participated in partisan operations, ambushes, sabotage work and mining during the Battle of Kyiv. [4] [13] [14] They had previously fought in the Battle of Mariupol, but they left for Kyiv as they deemed it was more important to defend the ...
In 1997, Sheikh Mansour was appointed chairman of the presidential office, at which time his father Sheikh Zayed was the president of the UAE.After the death of his father, he was appointed by his eldest half-brother, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, as the first minister of presidential affairs of the United Arab Emirates, following a merger of the presidential office and presidential court.
Mansur played an important role in the development and use of New Persian as a court and literary language, chiefly through his sponsorship of the translation and continuation of al-Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings by his vizier, Bal'ami. [2] He also sponsored a Persian translation of al-Tabari's Quranic commentary, Tafsir al-Tabari. [2]