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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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach(1752-1840)

• 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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Russian Expansion in Middle East and Asia
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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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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