title: Confrontation between Shamkhalate and Kabarda in the 16&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century (the issue of international relations in the North Caucasus)
abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of the development of the regional system of international relations in the North Caucasus in the 16 th century. The era of the Horde khans and Shirvanshahs is forever a thing of the past, and they were replaced by new empires: the Safavids, the Ottomans and the Moscow state. With the help of world-system analysis the article reveals the transformation of the political landscape of the region that took place at that period. A new look at the Caucasian commu
journal: Minbar Islamic Studies