Ajaria is the wettest region of the Caucasus, where the Mt.

During this period, Zoroastrianism spread in the Caucasus and Atropatene.

The Lesser Caucasus Mountains partially protect the region from the influence of dry and hot air masses from the south as well.

They were divided into the following groups Budjak (from the Danube to the Dniester), Yedisan (from the Dniester to the Bug), Jamboyluk (Bug to Crimea), Yedickul (north of Crimea) and Kuban.

Gold, silver, copper and iron have been mined in the Caucasus Mountains.

Mythology In Greek mythology the Caucasus, or Kaukasos, was one of the pillars supporting the world.

An image of North Caucasian youth dancing in a Russian street.

Now let's look at Turkey and the Caucasus.

They frequently raided the Parthian empire and the Caucasian provinces of the Roman Empire.

The suicide explosions were carried out by two women allegedly affiliated with the North Caucasus rebels .

Instead, on 7 March 1917, Mustafa Kemal Pasha was promoted from the command of the XVI Corps to the overall command of the Second Army, although the Czar's armies were soon withdrawn when the Russian Revolution erupted.

By October, it had reached Tomsk and the Caucasus.

In particular , the ECB attended the annual meeting of the Central Bank Governors Club in Ankara , an informal grouping that includes central banks of countries in the Balkans , the Black Sea region and the Caucasus .

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, of the 5th century BC, the Cimmerians inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea during the 8th and 7th centuries BC, in what is now Ukraine and Russia.

In the Caucasus, the Tats are concentrated in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russian Dagestan and their origins are traced to Sassanid merchants who settled in the region.

That corridor of Turkey and the Caucasus has become the conduit for 20 percent of Europe's energy supply.

And in it, Tolstoy told of a trip that he'd recently made to a very remote area of the Caucasus, where there were only wild barbarians, who had never left this part of Russia.

The population increased again from about 13,000 in the 1860s to 112,000 in 1897 and 215,000 in 1913, making Baku the largest city in the Caucasus region.

Putin suppressed the Chechen insurgency, although sporadic violence still occurs throughout the Northern Caucasus.

The market offers woodcarving, antiques, fine lace, and the hand knotted wool carpets and kilims that are a Caucasus specialty.

It is the southernmost part of Russia, and is bordered on its eastern side by the Caspian Sea.

Besides modern Iran, it included portions of the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Central Asia.

Following clashes and allegations of the shelling of Georgian villages by separatists in the breakaway territory of South Ossetia, there are fears that war will once again rage in the volatile South Caucasus.

At the beginning of the investigation, it was believed to be the work of terrorists from the North Caucasus.

The project was undertaken by Global Voices Online's Caucasus editor alongside bloggers and journalists from Azerbaijan and Georgia.

The clothes of Cossacks from Southern Russia include burka and papaha, which they share with the peoples of the Northern Caucasus.

In 1860 all of them were resettled to the North Caucasus and merged into the Kuban Cossack Host.

ƏSA s founder, Nihad Gulamzade, said he founded the theater the first of its kind in the Caucasus to fight those misperceptions.

The Khazars founded the Khazar kingdom in the southeastern part of today's Europe, near the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus.

So far, they travelled through the North Caucasus republics and are planning to go to Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.

Other longstanding Greek populations can be found from southern Italy to the Caucasus and southern Russia and Ukraine and in the Greek diaspora communities in a number of other countries.

For example, in the Caucasus there's a site where you find local Neanderthal tools.

By February, there were strikes in the Caucasus, and by April, in the Urals and beyond.

The urban population also traded with the people of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Russia.

The language is in the Southwestern Iranian group, along with the Larestani, Kumzari, and Luri languages.

Among European languages, this polypersonal agreement is found only in Basque, some languages of the Caucasus, Hungarian, and Maltese (all non Indo European).

As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 572,076, making it the largest in the North Caucasus Federal District.

Then I have been walking East for 20 years from Eastern Europe to Central Asia through the Caucasus Mountains, Middle East, North Africa, Russia.

On January 10, 1934, the autonomous oblast became part of new Azov Black Sea Krai, which was removed from North Caucasus Krai.

Special consideration will be given to proposals from Sub Saharan Africa and the Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucusus.

Taxonomy Anguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758 A. f. fragilis Linnaeus, 1758 A. f. colchicus (Nordmann, 1840)The subspecies A. f. fragilis is found all over Europe, while A. f. colchicus is found in south eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Iran.

Azerbaijan was a forgotten corner of the Caucuses, but now with the Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan pipeline into Turkey, it has rebranded itself as the frontier of the west.

Since the 1570s, when the Ottoman navy occupied the fort of Tskhumi, Abkhazia came under the influence of the Ottoman Empire and Islam.

He was then assigned to the command of the XVI Corps of the Second Army and sent to the Caucasus Campaign after the massive Russian offensive had reached the Anatolian key cities.

Georgian Maybe Time, a new blog from the Caucasus, comments on the experience of a friend from Azerbaijan who was recently chastised for her cooperation and communication with Armenians.