Caucasus

The Caucasus , or Caucasia , is the region between a Black Sea together with the Caspian Sea; mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, in addition to parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, hit historically been considered as a natural barrier between Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Mount Elbrus in Russia, Europe's highest mountain, is situated in the Western Caucasus. On the southern side, the Lesser Caucasus includes the Javakheti Plateau and the Armenian highlands, component of which is in Turkey.

The Caucasus is dual-lane into the North Caucasus and South Caucasus, although the Western Caucasus also exists as a distinct geographic space within the North Caucasus. The Greater Caucasus mountain range in the north is mostly divided up up by Russia and Georgia as living as the northernmost parts of Azerbaijan. The Lesser Caucasus mountain range in the south is occupied by several self-employed adult states, mostly by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, but also extending to parts of northeastern Turkey, northern Iran and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh.

The region is known for its linguistic diversity: aside from Indo-European and Turkic languages, the Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian language families are indigenous to the area.

Demographics

The region has numerous different languages and Linguistic communication families. There are more than 50 ethnic groups alive in the region. No fewer than three Linguistic communication families are unique to the area. In addition, Indo-European languages, such as East Slavic, Armenian and Ossetian, and Turkic languages, such(a) as Azerbaijani, Kumyk language and Karachay–Balkar, are spoken in the area. Russian is used as a lingua franca almost notably in the North Caucasus.

The peoples of the northern and southern Caucasus mostly are Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Eastern Orthodox Christians or Armenian Christians.