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Definition of Caucasus

1. Noun. The mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia.

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

Definition of Caucasus

1. Proper noun. A mountain range in Eastern Europe and West Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, on the territory of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caucasus

Catu virus Catullus Caty Caucasia Caucasian Caucasian Albania Caucasian Iberia Caucasian language Caucasian race Caucasian walnut

Caucasian zelkova Caucasians Caucasic Caucasiology Caucasology Caucasus Caucasus Mountains Cauchy Cauchy-Schwarz inequality Cauchy distribution

Cauchy distributions Cauchy sequence Cauchy sequences Caudata Caudine Caudine Forks Caulacanthus Caulophyllum Caulophyllum thalictrioides Caulophyllum thalictroides

Literary usage of Caucasus

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

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"In 1875 Mr. Craufurd Grove published his ' Frosty caucasus,' a very lively and interesting ... In the following year I went back to the caucasus with M. de ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"PROCEEDINGS OP THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND MONTHLY RECORD OF GEOGRAPHY. The Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers of the caucasus. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"The caucasus was a laboratory in which nature had been working on the ... The beginning of the establishment of the Cossacks in the caucasus dated some ..."

4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"Forty years ago the " frosty caucasus " was practically unknown to the physical geographers and naturalists of Western Europe. Before 1870 some light was ..."

5. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1891)
"Hence, even after their annexation to Russia, the centre of gravity of these Asiatic lands was naturally found at the southern foot of the caucasus, ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"THE caucasus. to 15th August, and from 1st November to about the 15th March, the increase in the early part of this latter period being considerable, ..."

7. The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Kelly, Walter Keating (1855)
"THE WAE IN THE caucasus. THE possession of the caucasus is a question vitally affecting the interests of Russia in her provinces beyond that range of ..."

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