Name: Sokolovići, Sokolac
Address: Sokolovići, Sokolac, al-Andalus & Europe

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The Astrakhan campaign and the Don–Volga canal project

The Astrakhan expedition and Don–Volga canal, 1569 — Sokollu's audacious plan to sail the Ottoman fleet into the Caspian: a third of the canal was dug by October before winter killed the project. The Khivan and Bukharan appeals had asked the Porte to reopen the pilgrimage road that Muscovy's seizure of Astrakhan had cut.

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The Astrakhan campaign and the Don–Volga canal project