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Definition of Caucasia

1. Noun. A large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource.

Definition of Caucasia

1. Proper noun. Caucasus ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caucasia

Literary usage of Caucasia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Asia by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"CHAPTER II caucasia 1. Boundaries—Extent—Area. ... It embraces three distinct geographical regions—caucasia, Turkestan, and Siberia—which will here be ..."

2. Asia by Augustus Henry Keane (1906)
"Meanwhile Russian Armenia forms a simple division of caucasia, which constitutes a single ... Since then the whole of caucasia comprises fourteen separate ..."

3. Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology by Hyde Clarke (1875)
"From High Asia, caucasia was supplied to the west, and thence the African regions, ... The following shows the relations of the caucasian centre: caucasia. ..."

4. Asia: With Ethnological Appendix by Augustus Henry Keane, Richard Carnac Temple (1882)
"It embraces three distinct geographical regions—caucasia, Turkestan, ... caucasia consists, broadly speaking, of the Ponto-Cas- pian isthmus—that is, ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"... and Trans-caucasia.—During the year 1882 the caucasian section of the Russian Military Topographical Department executed the following work :— In the ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The Kuma, the Terek and the Kura, with the Aras, which receives the waters of Lake Gok-cha, belong to caucasia.1 cultivation, 19% of the aggregate surface ..."

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