Caucasus

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mountainous region region

The Caucasus is a strategically vital mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, historically contested by empires and known as a major crossroads of Europe and Asia.

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Observed surface forms (8)

Surface form	Occurrences
Caucasus region	31
Caucasus Mountains	22
Greater Caucasus	11
South Caucasus	2
Transcaucasia	2
the Caucasus	2
Greater Caucasus mountain range	1
Greater Caucasus orogenic system	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	mountainous region ⓘ region ⓘ
borderedBy	Black Sea ⓘ Caspian Sea ⓘ Iran ⓘ Russia ⓘ Turkey ⓘ
containsSubregion	North Caucasus ⓘ South Caucasus ⓘ
continentPartOf	Eurasia ⓘ
crossedBy	Caucasus self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Caucasus Mountains
geologyType	orogenic belt ⓘ
hasClimate	varied climate ⓘ
hasHighestPoint	Mount Elbrus ⓘ
hasMajorCity	Azerbaijan ⓘ surface form: Baku Grozny ⓘ Tbilisi ⓘ Vladikavkaz ⓘ Erivan Governorate ⓘ surface form: Yerevan
hasMajorEthnicGroup	Armenians ⓘ Azerbaijanis ⓘ Chechens ⓘ Abkhazians ⓘ surface form: Circassians Georgians ⓘ Ossetians ⓘ
hasMajorReligion	Armenian Apostolic Church ⓘ Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ
hasNaturalResource	minerals ⓘ natural gas ⓘ oil ⓘ
hasPart	Caucasus self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Greater Caucasus Lesser Caucasus ⓘ
highestPointElevation	5642 metres ⓘ
historicallyContestedBy	Ottoman Empire ⓘ Achaemenid Empire ⓘ surface form: Persian Empire Russian Empire ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
knownFor	being a crossroads of Europe and Asia ⓘ ethnic diversity ⓘ linguistic diversity ⓘ strategic importance ⓘ
locatedBetween	Black Sea ⓘ Caspian Sea ⓘ
locatedOnContinent	Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ
modernStatesInRegion	Armenia ⓘ Azerbaijan ⓘ Georgia ⓘ Russia ⓘ
traversedBy	Silk Road routes ⓘ

Referenced by (202)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Treaty of San Stefano → affectedRegion → Caucasus ⓘ

Bureau for Europe and Eurasia (USAID) → appliesToJurisdiction → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus region

Caucasus Viceroyalty → appliesToJurisdiction → Caucasus ⓘ

Viceroy of the Caucasus → appliesToJurisdiction → Caucasus ⓘ

guberniyas (governorates) → appliesToJurisdiction → Caucasus ⓘ

subject surface form: guberniya

Slavic languages → areSpokenIn → Caucasus ⓘ

Turkic languages → areSpokenIn → Caucasus ⓘ

Commander of Army Group A → areaOfOperations → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus region

German 1st Panzer Army → areaOfOperations → Caucasus ⓘ

Mingrelian language → belongsToMacroArea → Caucasus ⓘ

European Russia → borderDefinedBy → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus Mountains

Armenian Highlands → borderedBy → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus Mountains

Black Sea Governorate → borderedBy → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus Mountains

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty → broadcastArea → Caucasus ⓘ

Russo-Turkish Wars → conflictRegion → Caucasus ⓘ

Gorskie Yevrei → countryOfOrigin → Caucasus ⓘ

Caucasus → crossedBy → Caucasus self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus Mountains

Persians → culturalInfluence → Caucasus ⓘ

Gurians → culturalSphere → Caucasus ⓘ

St. Maximus the Confessor → deathPlace → Caucasus ⓘ

subject surface form: Maximus the Confessor

this entity surface form: Caucasus region

Kurds → diaspora → Caucasus ⓘ

Ulmus glabra → distributionRegion → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus region

Iranian peoples → ethnicGroupOf → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus region

Umayyad Caliphate → expandedTo → Caucasus ⓘ

Eurasian Plate → formsFeature → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus Mountains

Eastern Orthodox Christianity → geographicCenter → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus region

Eastern Iranian languages → geographicDistribution → Caucasus ⓘ

Iranian languages → geographicDistribution → Caucasus ⓘ

Kipchak languages → geographicDistribution → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus region

Qadiri → geographicDistribution → Caucasus ⓘ

Southwestern Turkic → geographicDistribution → Caucasus ⓘ

Uatsdin → geographicRegion → Caucasus ⓘ

Axis forces on the Eastern Front → geographicScope → Caucasus ⓘ

Eurasia → hasConventionalBoundaryBetweenParts → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus Mountains

Nart sagas → hasCulturalOrigin → Caucasus ⓘ

Epic of Köroğlu → hasCulturalRegion → Caucasus ⓘ

Eastern Christianity → hasGeographicCenter → Caucasus ⓘ

Ossetian folk religion → hasGeographicRegion → Caucasus ⓘ

Indo-Iranian peoples → hasHistoricalRegion → Caucasus ⓘ

Late Bronze Age → hasLocation → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus region

Radical Reformation → hasMainRegion → Caucasus ⓘ

Eastern Georgia → hasMountainRange → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greater Caucasus

Georgia → hasMountainRange → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greater Caucasus

Mtskheta-Mtianeti → hasMountainRange → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greater Caucasus

North Caucasus → hasMountainRange → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greater Caucasus

Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti → hasMountainRange → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greater Caucasus

Russia → hasMountainRange → Caucasus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caucasus Mountains

western Georgia → hasMountainRange → Caucasus ⓘ

subject surface form: Western Georgia

this entity surface form: Greater Caucasus

Caucasus → hasPart → Caucasus self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Greater Caucasus

Islamic world → hasRegion → Caucasus ⓘ