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

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.

Cyrillic script → usedInRegion → Caucasus ⓘ