Transcaucasian Depression
Coordinates: 41 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ N , 45 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E
 
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The Transcaucasian Depression or Transcaucasian Depression is the depression between the Greater Caucasus and the Lesser Caucasus , which extends from the Surami Mountains to the northwest through the Colchis Lowlands to the Black Sea and to the southeast through the larger Kura Basin to the Caspian Sea .
The Kura is the most important river in the area, comes from the south-west of the Armenian highlands into the Surami Mountains, turns there to the south-east, and flows through most of the valley. Shortly before it flows into the Caspian Sea, the macaws come to it from the southwest . The Kura-Arax lowlands there are lower than sea level , have been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic , and gave birth to the Kura-Arax culture . The Colchis gave birth to the Colchis culture . The depression's climate benefits from the fact that cold air is kept out of the north by the Greater Caucasus.
The fold mountains on both sides of the depression are attributed to the collision of the Arabian plate with the Eurasian plate . A violent earthquake- triggering fault runs through the region from the Aegean Sea to Iran .
Politically, the Transcaucasian Depression is largely and roughly half divided between Azerbaijan and Georgia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georgia and Armenia 2010 - Large excursion of the Institute for Geography of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. (PDF; 13 MB) (No longer available online.) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gebhard Reul: Caucasus (overview). (No longer available online.) In: Encyclopedia of the European East . Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ We are united in pain . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1988 ( online ).
