Editing Second Chechen War (section)

===Russian Empire===
{{Main|Caucasian War}}

[[File:Chechnya and Caucasus.png|thumb|[[Chechnya]] and the [[Caucasus]] region]]

[[Chechnya]] is an area in the [[North Caucasus|Northern Caucasus]] which has constantly fought against foreign rule, including the [[Ottoman Turks]] in the 15th century. The Russian [[Terek Cossacks|Terek Cossack Host]] was established in lowland Chechnya in 1577 by free [[Cossacks]] who were resettled from the [[Volga]] to the [[Terek River]]. In 1783, the [[Russian Empire]] and the [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] [[Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti]] signed the [[Treaty of Georgievsk]], under which Kartli-Kakheti became a Russian [[protectorate]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jones|first=Stephen F.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881415856|title=The Making of Modern Georgia, 1918-2012 : the First Georgian Republic and its Successors.|publisher=Taylor and Francis|year=2014|isbn=978-1-317-81593-8|location=Hoboken|pages=77|oclc=881415856|access-date=7 October 2020|archive-date=12 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312113344/https://search.worldcat.org/title/881415856|url-status=live}}</ref> To secure communications with [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] and other regions of the [[Transcaucasia]], the Russian Empire began spreading its influence into the [[Caucasus]] region, starting the [[Caucasus War]] in 1817. Russian forces first moved into [[Highland (geography)|highland]] Chechnya in 1830, and the conflict in the area lasted until 1859, when a 250,000-strong army under General [[Aleksandr Baryatinsky]] broke down the highlanders' resistance. Frequent uprisings in the Caucasus also occurred during the [[Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78|Russo–Turkish War of 1877–78]].