Caucasia

Mountain range territory

Caucasia is the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, encompassing the Caucasus Mountains and surrounding territories.

The area includes modern Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and parts of southern Russia.

The term appears in older texts and scientific literature but has largely given way to "the Caucasus" in contemporary usage.

geographical

Armenia

Caucasian republic, capital Yerevan

Caspian Sea · Eurasia · Iberia · Albania · mountainous · isthmus · borderland · crossroads · Tbilisi · Yerevan

historical

empire

Domain under unified control

Ottoman · Persian · Silk Road · ancient · kingdom · medieval · Soviet · colonization · annexation · warfare

ethnolinguistic

Indo-European

Vast language family

peoples · tribes · Chechen · Armenian · Azeri · multilingual · ethnicity · diaspora · migration · identity

literary

novel

New and unusual

American · coming-of-age · 1970s · Boston · mixed-race · passing · sisterhood · Black · white · segregation

Opposites
geographic region

CaucasiaCentral Asia

Continental interior between Russia and Iran

East Asia · Southeast Asia · Oceania · Australasia · Scandinavia

eurasian positioning

CaucasiaFar East

Eastern Asian region

Central Asia · Siberia · Anatolia · Manchuria · Mesopotamia

Phrases
Family

Caucasus, Caucasian

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