what seas is the area in between?
Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
What is the Europe's highest mountain?
Mount Elbrus
where is it located?
Greater Caucasus mountain range
in what region?
west
What is it known for?
linguistic diversity
What does the greater Caucasus seperate?
Europe from Southwest Asia
Where is the name dervived from?
Scythian "kroy-khasis"
meaning?
ice-shining, white with snow
anything else?
ice
and who has noted that?
Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"
What languages are spoken here?
Turkic languages
any other?
Indo-European
and who is indigenous to the area?
Northeast Caucasian families
Where would you find Transcaucasus?
southern part
Whatis included in the Russian Federation?
The Greater Caucasus
Transcaucasus extends eastward to what?
the Caspian Sea
and?
northwestern Iran
and westward?
into northeastern Turkey
What year was Tale of past years written?
1113 AD