The election was the third attempt to choose a president for the mountainous republic.

With a population of about 600,000, their mountainous republic is the smallest of Yugoslavia's federal units.

Tajikistan, a mountainous former Soviet Central Asian republic, has been caught in a downward spiral of violence and hostage-taking.

May 11 - The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.

In 1920, it was the center of the ephemeral Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus.

Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus (1917-1920).

On 11 May 1918 The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was officially established.

Although separatist passions are flaring in this narrow mountainous republic, its ethnic diversity would appear to make it an unlikely candidate for the raging problems of nationalism.

Under Lionel Dunsterville, he was sent on a mission to the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus.

Suspicion dies hard in this mountainous republic, which saw some of the worst fighting and the worst atrocities against civilians in World War II.