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The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region situated at the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, which contain Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus, , located on the west of the Greater Caucasus mountain range. The Greater Caucasus acts as a natural barrier separating Europe from Southwest Asia, the latter including the Transcaucasus and Anatolia regions.

The Caucasus region is separated between northern and southern partsthe North Caucasus and Transcaucasus, respectively. The Greater Caucasus range in the north is within the Russian Federation, while the Lesser Caucasus to the south is divided between several independent states, namely Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. The Transcaucasus extends eastwards to the Caspian Sea and northwestern Iran, and extends westwards into northeastern Turkey.

The region is known for its linguistic diversity: aside from Indo-European and Turkic languages, the Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian families are indigenous to the area.

Pliny the Elder's "Natural History" (7779 AD) derives the name of the Caucasus from Scythian "kroy-khasis" ("ice-shining, white with snow"). German linguist Paul Kretschmer notes that the Latvian word "Kruvesis" also means "ice".

In the "Tale of Past Years" (1113 AD), it is stated that Old East Slavic ("Kavkasijskye gory") came from Ancient Greek ("Kafkasos"), which, according to M. A. Yuyukin, is a compound word that can be interpreted as the "Seagull's Mountain" (-: , , , , "a kind of seagull" + the reconstructed * "mountain" or "rock" richly attested both in place and personal names.)

1. what seas is the area in between?
2. What is the Europe's highest mountain?
3. where is it located?
4. in what region?
5. What is it known for?
6. What does the greater Caucasus seperate?
7. Where is the name dervived from?
8. meaning?
9. anything else?
10. and who has noted that?
11. What languages are spoken here?
12. any other?
13. and who is indigenous to the area?
14. Where would you find Transcaucasus?
15. Whatis included in the Russian Federation?
16. Transcaucasus extends eastward to what?
17. and?
18. and westward?
19. What year was Tale of past years written?
1. Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
2. Mount Elbrus
3. Greater Caucasus mountain range
4. west
5. linguistic diversity
6. Europe from Southwest Asia
7. Scythian "kroy-khasis"
8. ice-shining, white with snow
9. ice
10. Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"
11. Turkic languages
12. Indo-European
13. Northeast Caucasian families
14. southern part
15. The Greater Caucasus
16. the Caspian Sea
17. northwestern Iran
18. into northeastern Turkey
19. 1113 AD