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The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
The Caspian Flotilla (CF) was created in November 1722 in Astrakhan by the order of Peter the Great.Led by the admiral Fyodor Apraksin, it participated in Peter's Persian campaign of 1722–1723 and the Russo-Persian War (1804–1813), assisting the Russian army in capturing Derbent and Baku during the Persian Expedition of 1796.
In order to elaborate a Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, a special working group at the level of deputy foreign ministers was established in 1996 by the Caspian states. Negotiation of the document lasted more than 20 years before its signing on 12 August 2018 by the heads of five Caspian states at the summit in Kazakhstan.
The Caspian Depression [a] or the Caspian Lowland is a low-lying flatland region encompassing the northern part of the Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water on Earth. [1] It is the larger northern part of the wider Aral–Caspian Depression around the Aral and Caspian Seas.
The Caspian Sea; The Caspian Depression, surrounding the northern part of the Caspian Sea; The Caspians, the ancient people living near the Caspian Sea; The Caspian languages spoken in northern Iran and southeastern Azerbaijan; The Northeast Caucasian languages, also referred to as 'Caspian languages,' spoken in the Russian Caucasus and ...
Kashagan Field (Kazakh: Қашаған кен орны, Qaşağan ken orny) is an offshore oil field in Kazakhstan's zone of the Caspian Sea. [2] The field, discovered in 2000, is located in the northern part of the Caspian Sea close to Atyrau and is considered the world's largest discovery in the last 30 years, combined with the Tengiz Field. [3]
The Caspian Sea Monster at Kaspiysk photographed with a KH-8 reconnaissance satellite in 1968. The ekranoplan featured a constant- chord main wing and a stabilizer with notable dihedral (visible in the image as a difference in brightness between the left and right side of the stabilizer) and an unswept aft trailing edge.
Caspian is the English version of the Greek ethnonym Kaspioi, mentioned twice by Herodotus among the Achaemenid satrapies of Darius the Great [3] and applied by Strabo. [4] The name is attested in Old Iranian. [5] The Caspians have generally been regarded as a pre-Indo-European people.