Definitions for caucasus
ˈkɔ kə səscau·ca·sus

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Caucasus, Caucasus Mountainsnoun

   the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia

2. Caucasia, Caucasusnoun

   a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource

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1. Caucasusnoun

   (Geog.) the mountain range located between the Black and Caspian seas.

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1. Caucasusnoun

   A mountain range in Eastern Europe and West Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, on the territory of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

2. Etymology: Via Caucasus, from Καύκασος. From Scythian kroy-khasis. Another possibility is the Pelasgian *.

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1. Caucasus

   The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically been considered as a natural barrier between Eastern Europe and Western Asia.Mount Elbrus in Russia, Europe's highest mountain, is situated in the Western Caucasus. On the southern side, the Lesser Caucasus includes the Javakheti Plateau and the Armenian highlands, part of which is in Turkey.The Caucasus is divided into the North Caucasus and South Caucasus, although the Western Caucasus also exists as a distinct geographic space within the North Caucasus. The Greater Caucasus mountain range in the north is mostly shared by Russia and Georgia as well as the northernmost parts of Azerbaijan. The Lesser Caucasus mountain range in the south is occupied by several independent states, mostly by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, but also extending to parts of northeastern Turkey, northern Iran and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. The region is known for its linguistic diversity: aside from Indo-European and Turkic languages, the Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian language families are indigenous to the area.

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1. caucasus

   The Caucasus is a region located at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, which contain the highest peaks in Europe. The region is known for its significant ethnic and linguistic diversity, with more than 50 ethnic groups and many different languages spoken. Countries in this region include Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, among others. The Caucasus is also notable for its rich history and cultural heritage, having been an important site of human civilization for thousands of years.

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1. Caucasus

   The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia, is a region at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black and the Caspian Seas. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, which contain Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus. Politically, the Caucasus region is separated between northern and southern parts.

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1. Caucasus

   an enormous mountain range, 750 m. in length, extending from the Black Sea ESE. to the Caspian, in two parallel chains, with tablelands between, bounded on the S. by the valley of the Kur, which separates it from the tableland of Armenia; snow-line higher than that of the Alps; has fewer and smaller glaciers; has no active volcanoes, though abundant evidence of volcanic action.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of caucasus in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of caucasus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of caucasus in a Sentence

1. Vladimir Putin:

   They immediately tried to put the final squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how it was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia, what victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus ! We remember this and will never forget.

2. Robert Spengler:

   Some of them may have been rapidly domesticated by humans simply moving them or transporting them [along trade routes such as the silk road] from the Caucasus all the way to East Asia, so, its possible that humans were stillinflicting evolutionary changeson these plants without actually intensively cultivating them.

3. Matthew Bryza:

   Russia’s goal in its lone mediation mission appears to be twofold: firstly, to repair its international reputation in relation to its debacle in Ukraine, and secondly to strengthen the impression in Armenia and Azerbaijan that Russia calls the shots in the South Caucasus, the fact that the U.S. administration is so absent and timid in its response has the impact of ceding the strategic field in the South Caucasus to Russia. This can have profound and dangerous consequences in Syria, Ukraine, and far beyond.

4. Chris Smith:

   His condition has not improved since ; he has not regained consciousness, his wife, Yevgenia, said in an e-mail to RFE/RL and other media outlets. Kara-Murza’s father, a prominent journalist, told Russian media Thursday that the situation appears to be more serious than we thought. His lungs are being artificially ventilated, he is connected to 10 devices. Related ImageExpand / ContractKara-Murza,( l.), is an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as was his ally, Boris Nemtsov,( r.). , who was gunned down near the Kremlin in February. ( Reuters) Kara-Murza's father is a journalist with RFE/RL’s Russian Service. The activist's family was stopped short of raising public questions about whether foul play was involved. There is no criminal case so far, none has been opened because he is simply a normal patient who arrived at a Moscow hospital by ambulance. That’s his status, nothing more, his father told a radio station. Our task right now is to bring him to a normal trajectory of recuperation. We ’ll establish the cause [ of the illness ] later. Open Russia was founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil oligarch and Kremlin opponent who lives in Switzerland after Mikhail Khodorkovsky was pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 following 10 years in prison. Open Russia's new documentary accuses Kadyrov, a former rebel fighter who joined forces with the Kremlin in 2000, of participating in murders and torture in the North Caucasus republic. Related ImageExpand / ContractChechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was accused of torture and murder in the new documentary. ( Reuters) Both the Kremlin and Kadyrov have denied involvement in the killing of Boris Nemtsov, although Kadyrov praised the main suspect in the case, a former Chechen police officer, as a.

5. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   There are people from Dagestan, from Kyrgyzstan, from Tajikistan, unfortunately, people from neighboring northern Caucasus countries are involved in this business.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=caucasus
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=caucasus
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Caucasus
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=caucasus
7. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Caucasus