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Title: Caucasus and Georgia


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Caucasus and Georgia

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The Caucasus
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  • In Greek mythology, the Caucasus or Kaukasos was
    one of the pillars supporting the world.
    Prometheus was chained there by Zeus after
    Prometheus had presented man with the gift of
    fire.
  • The Roman poet Ovid placed Caucasus in Scythia
    and depicted it as a cold and stony mountain
    which was the abode of personified hunger.
  • The Greek hero Jason sailed to the west coast of
    the Caucasus in pursuit of the Golden Fleece, and
    there met the famed Medea.

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Soviet Administrative Map of the Caucasus
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Ethnic Groups in the Caucasus
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Ethnolinguistic Groups in the Caucasus
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
  • Caucasian variety I have taken the name of this
    variety from Mount Caucasus, both because its
    neighborhood, and especially its southern slope,
    produces the most beautiful race of men, I mean
    the Georgian and because all physiological
    reasons converge to this, that in that region, if
    anywhere, it seems we ought with the greatest
    probability to place the autochthones (birth
    place) of mankind

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Georgia
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Georgian Alphabet
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GeorgiaAdministrative Divisions
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Ethnic Groups in Georgia
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Oil Fields in the Caspian
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BEP Pipeline
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Proposed Afghanistan Pipeline
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