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Is Transcaucasia Asian?
The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains.
What countries are in Caucasus?
These countries are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, The Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Georgia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Russian Federation. Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are in the South Caucasus region.
Is the Caucasus region in Europe or Asia?
The Caucasus is a mountainous area nestled between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, consisting of southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. This transitional region has a foothold in both Eastern Europe and Western Asia, but is generally viewed as part of modern Europe.
What three countries make up Transcaucasia?
Transcaucasia, Russian Zakavkazye, small but densely populated region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains. It includes three independent states: Georgia in the northwest, Azerbaijan in the east, and Armenia, situated largely on a high mountainous plateau south of Georgia and west of Azerbaijan.
What religion is Caucasian?
Traditionally, the major religions in the Caucasus have been Islam (notably the Turkic groups), the Eastern Orthodox church (chiefly Georgians), the Armenian Apostolic church, and Judaism. There are also numerous minority sects.
Is Georgia in Europe or Asia?
Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It lies on the coast of the Black Sea and is bordered to the north and northeast by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan.
What countries are in Caucasus and Central Asia?
The Central Asia and Caucasus region comprises five Central Asia countries—Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan—lying east of the Caspian Sea, and their three neighbors to the west of the Caspian sea, namely Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.
What countries are located in North Asia?
The Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia defines the region as Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Korea and China. The Yellow Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the East China Sea are also included in discussions of the region.
Is the Caucasus in Central Asia?
What is the capital of Transcaucasia?
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
| Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic Закавказская демократическая федеративная республика | |
|---|---|
| Capital | Tiflis |
| Common languages | Armenian Azerbaijani Georgian Russian |
| Government | Federative republic |
| • President | Nikolay Chkheidze |
What are the 3 human races?
In the last 5,000- 7,000 of years, the geographic barrier split our species into three major races (presented in Figure 9): Negroid (or Africans), Caucasoid (or Europeans) and Mongoloid (or Asians).
What is the Indian race called?
Asian
Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.