Lesser Caucasus
The Lesser Caucasus or Lesser Caucasus Mountains, also called Caucasus Minor, is the second of the two main ranges of the Caucasus Mountains, of length about 600 km.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 2,440 metres
- Description: mountain range in the Caucasus region
- Also known as: “Anti-Kaukasus”, “Anticaucas”, “Bajo Caucaso”, “Bajo Cáucaso”, “Caucaso Menor”, “Kiçik Qafqaz dağları”, “Lesser Caucasian Mountains”, “Mindre Kaukasus”, “Pequeno Caucaso”, “Pequeno Cáucaso”, “Pequeño Caucaso”, “Pequeño Cáucaso”, “Piccolo Caucaso”, “Μικρότερος Καύκασος”, “Антикавказ”, “Кĕçĕн Кавказ”, “Անդրկովկաս”, “Կովկաս Փոքր”, and “Ստոտին Կովկաս”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Musayelyan and Hartashen.
Musayelyan
Village
Musayelyan is a village in the Ashotsk Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. Musayelyan is situated 5 km west of Lesser Caucasus.
Hartashen
Village
Bashgyugh
Village
Bashgyugh is a village in the Ashotsk Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. Bashgyugh is situated 7 km southwest of Lesser Caucasus.
Lesser Caucasus
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Shirak Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
41° north
Longitude
44° east
Elevation
2,440 metres (8,005 feet)
Open location code
8HH62222+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lesser Caucasus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القوقاز الصغرى”
- Armenian: “Փոքր Կովկաս լեռնային համակարգ”
- Armenian: “Փոքր Կովկաս”
- Azerbaijani: “Kiçik Qafqaz”
- Bashkir: “Кесе Кавказ”
- Basque: “Kaukaso Txikia”
- Belarusian: “Малы Каўказ”
- Bhojpuri: “छोटका कॉकेशस”
- Bosnian: “Mali Kavkaz”
- Bulgarian: “Малък Кавказ”
- Catalan: “Caucas Menor”
- Catalan: “Petit Caucas”
- Cebuano: “Malyy Kavkaz”
- Chechen: “Жима Кавказ”
- Chinese: “小高加索山脉”
- Chinese: “小高加索山脈”
- Chuvash: “Кĕçĕн Арамаçи”
- Croatian: “Mali Kavkaz”
- Czech: “Malý Kavkaz”
- Danish: “Lille Kaukasus”
- Dutch: “Kleine Kaukasus”
- Esperanto: “Malgranda Kaŭkazo”
- Estonian: “Väike-Kaukasus”
- Finnish: “Pieni-Kaukasus”
- French: “Petit Caucase”
- Georgian: “მცირე კავკასიონი”
- German: “Kleiner Kaukasus”
- Greek: “Μικρός Καύκασος”
- Hebrew: “הקווקז הקטן”
- Hungarian: “Kis-Kaukázus”
- Indonesian: “Kaukasus Kecil”
- Ingush: “ЗӀамига Кавказ”
- Italian: “Caucaso Minore”
- Japanese: “小コーカサス山脈”
- Kirghiz: “Кичи Кавказ”
- Korean: “말리캅카스산맥”
- Ladin: “Pitl Caucas”
- Latin: “Caucasus Minor”
- Latvian: “Mazais Kaukāzs”
- Lithuanian: “Mažasis Kaukazas”
- Luxembourgish: “Klenge Kaukasus”
- Macedonian: “Мал Кавказ”
- Mingrelian: “მორჩილი კავკაციონი”
- Mongolian: “Бага Кавказ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lille Kaukasus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Litle Kaukasus”
- Norwegian: “Lille Kaukasus”
- Ossetian: “Чысыл Кавказ”
- Persian: “قفقاز کوچک”
- Polish: “Mały Kaukaz”
- Portuguese: “Cáucaso Menor”
- Romanian: “Caucazul Mic”
- Russian: “Малый Кавказ”
- Serbian: “Mali Kavkaz”
- Serbian: “Мали Кавказ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mali Kavkaz”
- Slovak: “Malý Kaukaz”
- Slovenian: “Mali Kavkaz”
- Spanish: “Cáucaso Menor”
- Swedish: “Lilla Kaukasus”
- Turkish: “Küçük Kafkas Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Малий Кавказ”
- Uzbek: “Kichik Kavkaz”
- Venetian: “Caucaso Minore”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Tiểu Kavkaz”
- Vietnamese: “Tiểu Kavkaz”
- Welsh: “Cawcasws Lleiaf”
- Yue Chinese: “小高加索山脈”
- “छोटका कॉकेशस”
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