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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 ...
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.
The Peoples of the Caucasus, various ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region; Peoples speaking the languages restricted to the Caucasus area: Kartvelian (South Caucasian), Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian; Caucasian race; White people
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, [a] Europid, or Europoid) [2] is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [3] [4] [5] The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of ...
Anything from the Caucasus region or related to it Peoples of the Caucasus; Caucasian Exarchate (1917–1920), an ecclesiastical exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Caucasus region; Caucasus hunter-gatherer, an anatomically modern human genetic lineage identified in 2015
Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus, mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located). The modern endonyms for the area are Aghwank and Aluank, among the Udi people, who regard themselves as descended from the inhabitants of Caucasian Albania. However, its ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Muslim communities of the Caucasus The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. Subcategories
Geographic map of the Caucasus. Pan-Caucasianism is a political current supporting the cooperation and integration of some or all peoples of the Caucasus.Pan-Caucasianism has been hindered by the ethnic, religious and cultural diversity of the Caucasus, and frequent regional conflicts.