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Caucasus

The Caucasus is a region between the Black and Caspian Seas. It consists of , , , and . Known for its alpine terrain, the Caucasus is home to Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain peak in Europe, on the Russo-Georgian border.
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is a country in the Caucasus. Sandwiched between in the north and in the south, it sits along the coast of the around where Europe and Asia meet.

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is a former Soviet republic in the Caucasus and is variously considered part of or . Often known as the "Land of Fire", was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Persian Empire in the late 19th century.

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is a landlocked country in the Caucasus. Once the centre of an empire, this former Soviet republic straddles the line between Europe and Asia. has a rich, ancient history, and it is most famously known for being the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as the state religion.

Caucasus

  • Type: region
  • Description: region in Eurasia bordered on the south by Iran, on the southwest by Turkey, on the west by the Black Sea, on the east by the Caspian Sea, and on the north by Russia
  • Also known as: “Caucasia”
  • Category: cultural region
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
41.3015° or 41° 18′ 6″ north
Longitude of center
45.0041° or 45° 0′ 15″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q18869
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Yue Chinese—“Caucasus” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Къаукъаз”
  • Albanian: “Kaukazi”
  • Amharic: “ካውካሶስ”
  • Arabic: “القفقاز”
  • Arabic: “القفقاس”
  • Arabic: “القوقاز”
  • Arabic: “بلاد القبق”
  • Arabic: “قفقاس”
  • Arabic: “قفقاسيا”
  • Arabic: “قوقاز”
  • Aragonese: “Caucas”
  • Aragonese: “Caucaso”
  • Armenian: “Կովկաս”
  • Arpitan: “Côcase”
  • Arpitan: “Côcaso”
  • Asturian: “Cáucasu”
  • Asturian: “El Cáucasu”
  • Avaric: “Кавказ”
  • Avaric: “Кавказия”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qafqaz ərazisi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qafqaz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xəzər dənizi sərhədi”
  • Bashkir: “Кавказ”
  • Basque: “Kaukasia”
  • Basque: “Kaukaso”
  • Belarusian: “Каўказ”
  • Belarusian: “Каўказскія горы”
  • Belarusian: “Каўкаскія горы”
  • Bengali: “ককেশাস”
  • Bhojpuri: “कॉकेशस”
  • Bosnian: “Kavkaz”
  • Breton: “Kaokaz”
  • Bulgarian: “Кавказ”
  • Bulgarian: “Кавказки регион”
  • Bulgarian: “Кавказкия район”
  • Bulgarian: “Кавказкия регион”
  • Bulgarian: “Района на Кавказ”
  • Catalan: “Caucas”
  • Catalan: “Cauques”
  • Central Bikol: “Kaukaso”
  • Central Kurdish: “قه‌وقاز”
  • Central Kurdish: “قەفقاز”
  • Central Kurdish: “قەوقاز”
  • Chechen: “Кавказ”
  • Chechen: “Ковказ”
  • Chinese: “Caucasus”
  • Chinese: “高加索”
  • Chinese: “高加索國家”
  • Chinese: “高加索地区”
  • Church Slavic: “Каѵкасъ”
  • Chuvash: “Арамаçи”
  • Chuvash: “Кавказ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kavkaz”
  • Croatian: “Kavkaska regija”
  • Croatian: “Kavkaz”
  • Czech: “Kavkaz”
  • Danish: “Kaukasien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kofkas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qefqasya”
  • Dutch: “Kaukasie”
  • Dutch: “Kaukasië”
  • Dutch: “Kaukasisch”
  • Dutch: “Kaukasische”
  • Dutch: “Kaukasus”
  • Dutch: “Kaukasusgebied”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القوقاز”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŭkazio”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŭkazo”
  • Estonian: “Kaukaasia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Caucasus”
  • Finnish: “Kaukaasia”
  • Finnish: “Kaukasia”
  • French: “Caucase”
  • Galician: “Cáucaso”
  • Georgian: “კავკასია”
  • Georgian: “კავკასიის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Kaukasien”
  • German: “Kaukasus”
  • Gilaki: “قفقاز”
  • Greek: “Καυκασία”
  • Greek: “Καύκασος”
  • Guarani: “Káukaso”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kavkaz”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kô-kâ-sok”
  • Hebrew: “הקווקז”
  • Hebrew: “קווקז”
  • Hebrew: “קוקז”
  • Hindi: “काकेशस क्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “कॉकस क्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “कॉकस”
  • Hungarian: “Kaukázus”
  • Icelandic: “Kákasus”
  • Ido: “Kaukazia”
  • Igbo: “Caucasia”
  • Igbo: “Caucasus”
  • Inari Sami: “Kaukasia”
  • Indonesian: “Caucasus”
  • Indonesian: “Kaukasia”
  • Indonesian: “Kaukasus”
  • Ingush: “Кавказ”
  • Irish: “an Chugais”
  • Irish: “réigiún Chugais”
  • Irish: “Réigiún Chugais”
  • Italian: “Caucasiche”
  • Italian: “Caucaso”
  • Italian: “Nord Caucaso”
  • Italian: “Paesi caucasici”
  • Italian: “Trancaucaso”
  • Italian: “Transcaucaso”
  • Japanese: “カウカソス”
  • Japanese: “カフカース”
  • Japanese: “カフカーズ”
  • Japanese: “カフカス”
  • Japanese: “カフカス地方”
  • Japanese: “コーカサス”
  • Japanese: “コーカサス地方”
  • Japanese: “コーカシア”
  • Javanese: “Kaokasus”
  • Javanese: “Kaukasus”
  • Kabardian: “Къаукъаз”
  • Kabardian: “Къафкъаз”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಕಸಸ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кавказ”
  • Kazakh: “Кавказ”
  • Kazakh: “Қауқаз”
  • Kirghiz: “Кавказ”
  • Korean: “깝까즈”
  • Korean: “카브카스”
  • Korean: “카브카시아”
  • Korean: “카브카즈”
  • Korean: “카우카스”
  • Korean: “카프카스 지역”
  • Korean: “카프카스”
  • Korean: “카프카즈”
  • Korean: “캅카스”
  • Korean: “캅카시아”
  • Korean: “캅카즈”
  • Korean: “코카서스”
  • Korean: “코카시아”
  • Korean: “코커서스”
  • Kurdish: “Kafkasya”
  • Kurdish: “Qefqasya”
  • Kurdish: “Qefqaz”
  • Lak: “Ккавкказ”
  • Latvian: “Kaukāzs”
  • Lezghian: “Кавказ”
  • Lezghian: “Къавкъаз”
  • Lezghian: “Къавкьаз”
  • Limburgan: “Kaukasië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Caucasos”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaukaz”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaukazas”
  • Macedonian: “Кавказ”
  • Malagasy: “Kaokazy”
  • Malay: “Caucasus”
  • Malay: “Kaukasus”
  • Malayalam: “കൊക്കേഷ്യ”
  • Manx: “Yn Choagaash”
  • Marathi: “कॉकासस”
  • Marathi: “कॉकॅसस”
  • Marathi: “कॉकेशस”
  • Mazanderani: “قفقاز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Caucasus”
  • Minangkabau: “Kaukasus”
  • Mingrelian: “კავკაცია”
  • Mongolian: “Кавказ”
  • Nepali: “ककेसस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaukasus (Berger)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaukasus”
  • Northern Luri: “قأفقاز”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaukasia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaukasia”
  • Norwegian: “Kaukasia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Caucàs”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caucasus”
  • Ossetian: “Кавказ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਕਸ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਹਕਾਫ਼”
  • Persian: “آسياي مقدم”
  • Persian: “آسیای مقدم”
  • Persian: “اسياي مقدم”
  • Persian: “اسیای مقدم”
  • Persian: “بافت جمعيت قفقاز در تاريخ”
  • Persian: “بافت جمعیت قفقاز در تاریخ”
  • Persian: “بافتار جمعيت قفقاز جنوبي در تاريخ”
  • Persian: “بافتار جمعيت قفقاز در تاريخ”
  • Persian: “بافتار جمعيت قفقازجنوبي در تاريخ”
  • Persian: “بافتار جمعیت قفقاز جنوبی در تاریخ”
  • Persian: “بافتار جمعیت قفقاز در تاریخ”
  • Persian: “بافتار جمعیت قفقازجنوبی در تاریخ”
  • Persian: “قفقاز”
  • Persian: “قفقازیه”
  • Piemontese: “Càucas”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Koukeisiis”
  • Polish: “Kaukaz”
  • Portuguese: “Caucásia”
  • Portuguese: “Cáucaso”
  • Pushto: “قفقاز”
  • Romanian: “Caucaz”
  • Romanian: “Caucazia”
  • Russian: “Кавказ”
  • Rusyn: “Кавказ”
  • Sardinian: “Càucasu”
  • Scots: “Caucasus”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cabhcas”
  • Serbian: “Закаквказје”
  • Serbian: “Кавказ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kavkaz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Кавказ”
  • Shona: “Kaukasi”
  • Sicilian: “Caucasu”
  • Sicilian: “Càucasu”
  • Slovak: “Kaukaz”
  • Slovenian: “Kavkaška regija”
  • Slovenian: “Kavkaz”
  • Somali: “Qafqaas”
  • Somali: “Qooqaas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قافقاز”
  • Southern Sotho: “Kaucasus”
  • Spanish: “Caucasia”
  • Spanish: “Caucasiana”
  • Spanish: “Caucasianos”
  • Spanish: “Caucaso”
  • Spanish: “Cáucaso”
  • Spanish: “el Caucaso”
  • Spanish: “el Cáucaso”
  • Spanish: “region del Caucaso”
  • Spanish: “región del Cáucaso”
  • Sundanese: “Caucasus”
  • Sundanese: “Kaukasus”
  • Swedish: “Kaukasien”
  • Swedish: “Kaukasisk”
  • Tagalog: “Caucasus”
  • Tagalog: “Kaukaso”
  • Tajik: “Қафқоз”
  • Talysh: “Gafgaz”
  • Tamil: “காக்கேசியா”
  • Tatar: “Кавказ таулары”
  • Tatar: “Кавказ”
  • Telugu: “కాకసస్”
  • Telugu: “కాకేసియా”
  • Thai: “Caucasus”
  • Thai: “คอคาซัส”
  • Thai: “คอเคซัส”
  • Thai: “เทือกเขาคอเคซัส”
  • Turkish: “Kafkas”
  • Turkish: “Kafkasistan”
  • Turkish: “Kafkaslar”
  • Turkish: “Kafkasya”
  • Turkmen: “Kawkaz”
  • Uighur: “Kaucasus”
  • Ukrainian: “Кавказ”
  • Urdu: “قفقاز”
  • Uzbek: “Kavkaz”
  • Venetian: “Càucazo”
  • Vietnamese: “Caucasus”
  • Vietnamese: “Kavkaz”
  • Vlaams: “Kaukasus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Caucaso”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Caucasus”
  • Welsh: “Ardal y Cawcasws”
  • Welsh: “Cawcasws”
  • Western Armenian: “Կովկաս”
  • Western Frisian: “Kaukasus”
  • Western Panjabi: “قفقاز”
  • Wu Chinese: “高加索”
  • Xhosa: “Caucasus”
  • Yakut: “Кавказ”
  • Yakut: “Хапхаас”
  • Yue Chinese: “高加索”
  • “ma Kakasi”
  • “कॉकेशस”

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