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Key facts
- Leaders
- Dokka Umarov † Aliaskhab Kebekov † Magomed Suleimanov †
- Foundation
- 7 October 2007 ; 18 years ago ( 2007-10-07 )
- Dissolved
- 10 June 2019 ; 6 years ago ( 2019-06-10 )
- Active regions
- North Caucasus , West Asia
- Ideology
- Pan-Islamism Pan-Caucasianism Salafist-Takfiri Jihadism Separatism Islamic fundamentalism Anti-imperialism
- Slogan
- «Победа или рай», ( translation</span>"}]]}'>transl. "Victory or Heaven" )
- Notable attacks
- Insurgency in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia Insurgency in Ingushetia Insurgency in the North Caucasus
- Size
- 1,000 (2014)
- Allies
- Mujahideen in Chechnya Riyad-us Saliheen
- Opponents
- Russia Ba'athist Syria Georgia Azerbaijan Armenia Turkey
- Battles and wars
- Russo-Caucasian conflict Second Chechen War Syrian civil war
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- terrorist organization
- Parent organization
- Islamic State
- Chairperson
- Aslambek Vadalov
- Follows
- Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
- Image
- Flag of Caucasian Emirate.svg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Caucasus Emirate
- inception
- 2007-10-07
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-00-00
- designated as terrorist by
- United Arab Emirates
- Commons category
- Caucasus Emirate
- native label
- إمارة القوقاز الإسلامية
- replaced by
- Islamic State – Caucasus Province
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Encyclopedic overview
The Caucasus Emirate (Chechen: Имарат Кавказ, ИК, romanized: Imarat Kavkaz, IK; Russian: Кавказский эмират, romanized: Kavkazskiy emirat), also known as the Caucasian Emirate, Emirate of Caucasus, or Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, was a jihadist organisation active in rebel-held parts of Syria and previously in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Its intention was to expel the Russian presence from the North Caucasus and to establish an independent Islamic emirate in the region. The Caucasus Emirate also referred to the state that the group sought to establish. The creation of Caucasus Emirate was announced on 7 October 2007, by Chechen warlord Dokka Umarov, who became its first self-declared "emir".
By late 2015, the group no longer had a visible presence in the North Caucasus, as most of its members defected to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caucasus Emirate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.