| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caucasus_map.png]] |
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| 3 | The Caucasus is the term used to describe the transcontinental region spanning Eastern UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} and West UsefulNotes/{{Asia}}, straddled by the Black and Caspian seas and sandwiched between European UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} in the north and Asian UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}} and UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} in the south. It includes the modern nation-states of UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Caucasus}}, UsefulNotes/{{Azerbaijan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}}, and a small part of Russia, as well as the disputed territories of UsefulNotes/{{Abkhazia}}, UsefulNotes/SouthOssetia, and the UsefulNotes/RepublicOfArtsakh. |
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| 5 | The region takes its name from the Caucasus mountains, which have been characterized as a natural bulwark between Europe and Asia. The Greater Caucasus straddles the border of Russia and Georgia, while the Lesser Caucasus covers Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. With its rugged snow-packed peaks and deep gorges, the range boasts the highest mountain in Europe, Mount Elbrus. The high mountains and glaciers give way to rolling lowlands, high deserts, alpine meadows, vast steppes, and dense woodlands. |
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| 7 | Historically, the Caucasus has been a region on the edge of empires. Lying at the crossroads of UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast and the Eurasian Steppe, the Caucasus was host to clashes between greater powers. Aided by rugged natural features, its cultures resisted centuries of foreign rule, invasion, and war, be it by Greeks, Arabs, Persians, Turks, and Mongols. All of the countries in this region were also parts of the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], with [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin a certain ruler of the USSR]] originating from Georgia. Armenia and Georgia, for their part, also had moments throughout history where they themselves were large independent kingdoms occupying a much larger territory than they currently hold, but mainly not since the Middle Ages. |
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| 9 | The Caucasus is noted for its cultural and linguistic diversity. Three major language families -- Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian -- are endemic to the region. The linguistic landscape also includes Turkic languages such as Azerbaijani, and Indo-European languages such as Ossetian and Armenian. Russian is also commonly used as a ''lingua franca'' throughout the region. |
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| 11 | [[index]] |
| 12 | !Countries |
| 13 | * UsefulNotes/{{Abkhazia}} (de facto independent country, claimed by Georgia) |
| 14 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Sukhumi |
| 15 | * UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}} |
| 16 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Yerevan |
| 17 | * UsefulNotes/{{Azerbaijan}} |
| 18 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Baku |
| 19 | * UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Caucasus}} |
| 20 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Tbilisi |
| 21 | * UsefulNotes/RepublicOfArtsakh (symbolic)[[note]]Following the 2023 Azerbaijani invasion and annexation of Artsakh, its government announced the dissolution of its army. It was initially claimed that the government would dissolve in 2024, but it later recanted this. That said, the country effectively no longer exists today.[[/note]] |
| 22 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Stepanakert |
| 23 | * UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} |
| 24 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Moscow |
| 25 | * UsefulNotes/SouthOssetia (de facto independent country, claimed by Georgia) |
| 26 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Tskhinvali |
| 27 | |
| 28 | !!Autonomous Republics and Federal Regions |
| 29 | !!!Georgia |
| 30 | * Adjara |
| 31 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Batumi |
| 32 | |
| 33 | !!!Azerbaijan |
| 34 | * Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic |
| 35 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Nakhchivan |
| 36 | |
| 37 | !!!Russia |
| 38 | * Adygea |
| 39 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Maykop |
| 40 | * Chechnya |
| 41 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Grozny |
| 42 | * Dagestan |
| 43 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Makhachkala |
| 44 | * Ingushetia |
| 45 | ->'''Capital''': Magas |
| 46 | ->'''Largest City''': Nazran |
| 47 | * Kabardino-Balkaria |
| 48 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Nalchik |
| 49 | * Kalmykia |
| 50 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Elista |
| 51 | * Karachay-Cherkessia |
| 52 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Cherkessk |
| 53 | * Krasnodar Krai |
| 54 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Krasnodar |
| 55 | * North Ossetia-Alania |
| 56 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Vladikavkaz |
| 57 | * Stavropol Krai |
| 58 | ->'''Capital & Largest City''': Stavropol |
| 59 | |
| 60 | !!See also |
| 61 | * UsefulNotes/TheArmenianGenocide |
| 62 | * Myth/ArmenianMythology |
| 63 | * AsianAnimation |
| 64 | * BigBrotherIsWatchingThisIndex |
| 65 | ** UsefulNotes/{{GRU}} |
| 66 | ** UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre |
| 67 | * UsefulNotes/TheChechnyaWars |
| 68 | * UsefulNotes/ChristmasIsBourgeois |
| 69 | * CircassianBeauty |
| 70 | * UsefulNotes/ColdWar |
| 71 | ** CommieLand |
| 72 | ** TheCommiesMadeMeDoIt |
| 73 | ** DefectorFromCommieLand |
| 74 | ** UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar |
| 75 | ** ANuclearError |
| 76 | * UsefulNotes/TheCrimeanWar |
| 77 | * DevelopingNationsLackCities |
| 78 | * EasternEuropeanAnimation |
| 79 | * ForcesWithFirepower |
| 80 | ** UsefulNotes/ArmosWithArmor (Armenian military) |
| 81 | ** UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets (Modern Russian military) |
| 82 | *** UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets (Soviet military) |
| 83 | *** UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRifles (Tsarist Russian military and the White Guard) |
| 84 | *** UsefulNotes/FromRussiaWithNukes (Soviet/Russian nuclear weapons) |
| 85 | * FormerRegimePersonnel |
| 86 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage |
| 87 | ** GratuitousRussian |
| 88 | * TheGulag |
| 89 | * HeinousHyena |
| 90 | * HuskyRusskie |
| 91 | * UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} |
| 92 | * TheMafiya |
| 93 | * MakeTheBearAngryAgain |
| 94 | * MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong |
| 95 | * Myth/NartSagas |
| 96 | * UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity |
| 97 | * UsefulNotes/PoliceForces |
| 98 | ** UsefulNotes/SpellOurNameWithAPo (UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}) |
| 99 | * PostSovietReunion |
| 100 | * RascallyRaccoon |
| 101 | * RenegadeRussian |
| 102 | * UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire |
| 103 | * RussiaTakesOverTheWorld |
| 104 | * RussianBear |
| 105 | * RussianGuySuffersMost |
| 106 | * RussianHumour |
| 107 | * UsefulNotes/RussianLanguage |
| 108 | ** UsefulNotes/RussianNamingConvention |
| 109 | ** UsefulNotes/RussianProverbsAndExpressions |
| 110 | * UsefulNotes/SchoolSystems |
| 111 | ** UsefulNotes/PostSovietEducationalSystem |
| 112 | * Myth/ScythianMythology |
| 113 | * SocialistRealism |
| 114 | * [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] |
| 115 | ** UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR |
| 116 | *** UsefulNotes/TheSoviet20s |
| 117 | * UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia |
| 118 | * UsefulNotes/TurkicPeoples |
| 119 | * VodkaDrunkenski |
| 120 | [[/index]] |
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