Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region comprising present-day Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan between the Caucasus Mountains and the borders of Turkey and Iran.
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- proper noun Mountainous region of
southwest Asia , lying south ofCaucasus Mountains and comprising republics ofGeorgia ,Armenia andAzerbaijan . Also known asSouth Caucasus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan
Etymologies
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Examples
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He rose through the state security services, and by 1930 he was running the OGPU in Transcaucasia.
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He rose through the state security services, and by 1930 he was running the OGPU in Transcaucasia.
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In the summer of 1917, Sarah Shor spent a vacation in Alexandropol, a Russian town in Transcaucasia, where she was forced to live for an entire year because the transport system collapsed following the revolutionary chaos.
Sarah Shor. Grigorij 2009
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The "German-Turkish threat to India",: Iran's occupation by Britain and British intervention in Transcaucasia and Transcaspia, 1914-1920.
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The "German-Turkish threat to India",: Iran's occupation by Britain and British intervention in Transcaucasia and Transcaspia, 1914-1920.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraq will not be used against Iran: Maliki 2008
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That is why they are enduring grinding poverty and preposterous taxation, and that is why their young men are rolling up to the armies and dying without complaint in Gallipoli and Transcaucasia.
Greenmantle 2005
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Kikodze criticized the Soviet Union but defended Russia, which developed Tbilisi in the nineteenth century as the capital of Transcaucasia.
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Kikodze criticized the Soviet Union but defended Russia, which developed Tbilisi in the nineteenth century as the capital of Transcaucasia.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was organized, bringing together Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Transcaucasia in one federation.
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War with Persia (See 182628) resulted from a Persian attack on Russian possessions in Transcaucasia.
1826 2001
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