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Caucasus vegetation land cover, 1940 View of the Caucasus Mountains in Dagestan, Russia. The Caucasus is an area of great ecological importance. The region is included in the list of 34 world biodiversity hotspots. [66] [67] It harbors some 6400 species of higher plants, 1600 of which are endemic to the region. [68]
Caucasian Neopaganism is a category including movements of modern revival of the autochthonous religions of the indigenous peoples of the North Caucasus. It has been observed by scholar Victor Schnirelmann especially among the Abkhaz [ 1 ] and the Circassians .
Category: Religion in the Caucasus. 8 languages. ... Christianity in the Caucasus (4 C) I. Islam in the Caucasus (8 C, 22 P) J. Jews from the Caucasus (3 C)
Mountain Jews, or Jews of the Caucasus, have inhabited the Caucasus since the fifth century CE. Being the descendants of the Persian Jews of Iran, their migration from Persia proper to the Caucasus took place in the Sasanian era (224–651). [8] It is believed that they arrived in Persia from ancient Israel as early as the 8th century BCE. [14]
Caucasus Jews of two sub-ethnic groups Mountain Jews and Georgian Jews. There are about 15,000–30,000 Caucasus Jews (as 140,000 immigrated to Israel, and 40,000 to the US). Arabs in the Caucasus: a population of nomadic Arabs was reported in 1728 as having rented winter pastures near the Caspian shores of the Mugan plain (in present-day ...
Religious Council of the Caucasus (until 1992 — "The spiritual administration of the Muslims of Transcaucasia") is the highest spiritual and administrative organ of the Muslims of the countries of the Transcaucasian region located in Baku.
The Vainakh peoples of the North Caucasus (Chechens and Ingush) were Islamised comparatively late, during the early modern period, and Amjad Jaimoukha (2005) proposes to reconstruct some of the elements of their pre-Islamic religion and mythology, including traces of ancestor worship and funerary cults. [1]
The kingdom of Albania emerged in the eastern Caucasus in 2nd or 1st century BC and along with the Georgians and Armenians formed one of the three nations of the Southern Caucasus. [24] [53] Albania came under strong Armenian religious and cultural influence. [27] [54] [55] [56] [57]