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Imam Shamil
Imam Shamil was an Avar political and religious leader who led the resistance of the peoples of Dagestan and Chechnya against the Russian Empire. Imam of the Caucasian Imamate from 1834, he built a centralised state ruled by sharia law and fought for a quarter of a century. Surrounded at Gunib, he surrendered in 1859, lived in honourable exile in Russia and died in Medina in 1871.
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