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The Caucasus (/ ˈ k ɔː k ə s ə s /) or Caucasia [3] [4] (/ k ɔː ˈ k eɪ ʒ ə /), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia.It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
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 .
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 ...
Category: Religion in the Caucasus. 7 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]
The Caucasus region gradually enters the historical record during the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age. Hayasa-Azzi was a Late Bronze Age confederation of two kingdoms of Armenian Highlands, Hayasa located South of Trabzon and Azzi, located north of the Euphrates and to the south of Hayasa.
As a result of Armenian, Greek and Byzantine influence, Christianity spread throughout the Caucasus between the 3rd and 5th centuries. [81] [82] During that period, Circassians (known at the time as Kassogs) [83] began to accept Christianity as a national religion, but did not abandon all elements of their indigenous religious beliefs ...
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]