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The largest peoples speaking languages which belong to the Caucasian language families and who are currently resident in the Caucasus are the Georgians (3,200,000), the Chechens (2,000,000), the Avars (1,200,000), the Lezgins (about 1,000,000) and the Kabardians (600,000), while outside the Caucasus, the largest people of Caucasian origin, in ...
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.
Kavkaz (Russian: Кавказ) may refer to: Caucasus, region for which Kavkaz is a local or historic name in several countries; Port Kavkaz, a ferry port at Taman peninsula; Port Kavkaz railway station, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia; Kavkaz Center, a Chechen internet news agency "Kavkaz" ("Caucasus"), codename of a series of Russian military exercises
Caucasian Tatar is a historical ethnonym for Turkic-speaking Muslims living in the Caucasus region, used up to the early 20th century, and may refer to: . South Caucasian Tatars, modern Azerbaijani people and other Muslim groups living in Transcaucasia, called Caucasian Tatars in Soviet Census until 1939
The Encyclopedia Britannica describes the Turanian nomads as "a people of undetermined origin and language." [ 20 ] As of 2002, the Avarians numbered about 1.04 million. 912,020 Avarians lived in Russia during the 2010 census; 850,011 of them lived in Dagestan. [ 2 ]
Kavkazskiy kalendar contained a large number of ethnographic and historical materials. Questions of public education, agricultural crops were considered, information about the customs of the Caucasian peoples, their religions, and much more was placed.
Ethnolinguistic groups in the Caucasus region (1995). The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
The Tat people or Transcaucasian Persians (also: Tat, Parsi, Daghli, Lohijon) are an Iranian people presently living within Azerbaijan and Russia (mainly Southern Dagestan). The Tats are part of the indigenous peoples of Iranian origin in the Caucasus.