page_title: Greater Caucasus
hierarchical_section_title: Greater Caucasus
caption_attribution_description: English: Caucasus Mountains near Arkhyz.
context_page_description: Greater Caucasus is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains.
  The range stretches for about 1,200 kilometres from west-northwest to east-southeast, between the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus near Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian.
  The range is traditionally separated into three parts:
  Western Caucasus, from the Black Sea to Mount Elbrus
  Central Caucasus, from Mount Elbrus to Mount Kazbek
  Eastern Caucasus, from Mount Kazbek to the Caspian Sea
  In the wetter Western Caucasus, the mountains are heavily forested. In the drier Eastern Caucasus, the mountains are mostly treeless.
context_section_description: Greater Caucasus (Russian: Большой Кавказ; Azerbaijani: Böyük Qafqaz; Georgian: დიდი კავკასიონი, sometimes translated as "Caucasus Major", "Big Caucasus" or "Large Caucasus") is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains.
  The range stretches for about 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) from west-northwest to east-southeast, between the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus near Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian.
  The range is traditionally separated into three parts:
  Western Caucasus, from the Black Sea to Mount Elbrus
  Central Caucasus, from Mount Elbrus to Mount Kazbek
  Eastern Caucasus, from Mount Kazbek to the Caspian Sea
  In the wetter Western Caucasus, the mountains are heavily forested (deciduous forest up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft), coniferous forest up to 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) and alpine meadows above the tree line). In the drier Eastern Caucasus, the mountains are mostly treeless.
caption: Mountainous landscape of Arkhyz.
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