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Caucasia: see Caucasus Caucasus (kô`kəsəs), Rus. Kavkaz, region and mountain system, SE European Russia. The mountain system extends c. ..... Click the link for more information. . Caucasusor CaucasiaMountainous region, between the Black and Caspian seas. Occupying roughly 170,000 sq mi (440,000 sq km), it is divided among Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia and forms part of the traditional dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bisected by the Caucasus Mountains; the area north of the Greater Caucasus range is called Ciscaucasia and the region to the south Transcaucasia. Inhabited from ancient times, it was under nominal Persian and Turkish suzerainty until conquered by Russia in the 18th–19th centuries. Caucasia a region in SW Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea: contains the Caucasus Mountains, dividing it into Ciscaucasia in the north and Transcaucasia in the south; one of the most complex ethnic areas in the world, with over 50 different peoples How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Michelle Cliff's Abeng (1986) and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) typify a recent literary uptrend: a dramatic increase in biracial fiction, memoir, and theory, in biracial discourses of passing, invisibility, and identity. 5 infantry divisions and 7 cavalry divisions in Russia, the Ukraine, the Baltics, and Caucasia. Works by non-Jewish writers, which precede Smith's The Autograph Man and examine the instability and multiplicity of contemporary identities through the prism of Jewishness, include, most notably, Ross's Oreo (1974) and Senna's Caucasia (1998). |
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