History UsefulNotes / TheCaucasus

The region takes its name from the Caucasus mountains, which have been characterized as a natural bulwark between Europe and Asia. The Greater Caucasus straddles the border of Russia and Georgia, while the Lesser Caucasus covers Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. With its rugged snow-packed peaks and deep gorges, the range boasts the highest mountain in Europe, Mount Elbrus. The high mountains and glaciers give way to rolling lowlands, high deserts, alpine meadows, vast steppes, and dense woodlands.

** BazaarOfTheBizaare

* AltaicMythology

!!Regions (Federal Subjects of Russia)

The Caucasus is the term used to describe the transcontinental region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddled by the Black and Caspian seas. It includes the modern nation-states of UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Europe}}, UsefulNotes/{{Azerbaijan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}}, and a small part of UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}, as well as the disputed territories of UsefulNotes/{{Abkhazia}}, UsefulNotes/SouthOssetia, and [[UsefulNotes/RepublicOfArtsakh Artsakh]].

Historically, the Caucasus has been a region on the edge of empires. Lying at the crossroads of UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast and the Eurasian Steppe, the Caucasus was host to clashes between greater powers. Aided by rugged natural features, its cultures resisted centuries of foreign rule, invasion, and war, be it by Greeks, Arabs, Persians, Turks, and Mongols. All of the countries in this region were also parts of the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], with [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin a certain ruler of the USSR]] originating from Georgia. Armenia and Georgia, for their part, also had fleeting moments where they themselves were large independent kingdoms occupying a much larger territory than they currently hold, but mainly not since the 1000's AD.

Historically, the Caucasus has been a region on the edge of empires. Lying at the crossroads of UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast and the Eurasian Steppe, the Caucasus was host to clashes between greater powers. Aided by rugged natural features, its cultures resisted centuries of foreign rule, invasion, and war, be it by Greeks, Arabs, Persians, Turks, and Mongols. All of the countries in this region were also parts of the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], with [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin a certain ruler of the USSR]] originating from Georgia.

* UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR
** UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties