South Caucasus

Administrative map of the South Caucasus. Left Black , right Caspian Sea .

South Caucasus (also Transcaucasia ( Russian Закавказье Sakawkasje )) denotes the part of the Caucasus south of the main chain of the Greater Caucasus .

Politically, the countries of Armenia , Georgia and Azerbaijan belong to the South Caucasus . Geographically, it covers most of the southern capping of the Greater Caucasus, the Colchian Plain , the Kura Aras Lowlands , the Lesser Caucasus , the Armenian Jawater Mountains , the Talysh Mountains and the Lenkoran Lowlands . As a political unit, the Transcaucasian Federation briefly existed in 1918 and the Transcaucasian SFSR within the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1936 .

Emigrants or refugees from these three countries are often referred to as Caucasians . In 1941 all Caucasian Germans from the countries of the South Caucasus were forcibly resettled to Kazakhstan .

See also

• North Caucasus

Web links

Commons : South Caucasus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• English and Russian short messages from Kawkaski Usel from the countries of the South Caucasus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article South Caucasus in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D042384~2a%3D~2b%3DS%C3%BCdcaucasus
2. ↑ Caucasus. CIA World Factbook
3. ↑ Caucasus. Physical Geography, Population, and Economy . Encyclopaedia Iranica