The mountain region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, divided by the Greater Caucasus range into a northern zone, home to the Circassian, Abkhaz, Ossetian, Chechen and Ingush peoples, and a southern zone comprising Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Its isolated highland valleys sheltered some of the last living pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religious systems in Europe and West Asia into the modern era.
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Sacred and Liturgical LanguagesSourced to the subject's own accountOld Georgian, the liturgical language of the Georgian Orthodox Church, and Classical Armenian (Grabar), the liturgical language of the Armenian Apostolic Church since Mesrop Mashtots devised the Armenian alphabet around 405 CE, are the two dominant sacred languages of the region's oldest national churches. 1 Connections
Attested Here
Spoken in the Caucasus.
Source Kurmanji (Wikipedia)
Originated Here
Source Plants of the World OnlineRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Source Plants of the World OnlineRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Plants Native Here
Source Plants of the World OnlineRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Source Plants of the World OnlineRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Regions Where This Is Principal
Source Nart Sagas from the Caucasus (Colarusso)John Colarusso
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Language Atlas: Armenian, used in there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Georgian, used in there.
Sources
1. Georgian Orthodox Church (Wikipedia)
Nart Sagas from the Caucasus (Colarusso)
John Colarusso, Princeton University Press, 2002Colarusso's introduction, on the Caucasus as the setting of the Nart cycle
The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition
Oxford University Press, Oxford University Pressdemonym / adjectival formView the Source Armenian Apostolic Church (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, 2026Liturgical language: Classical ArmenianView the Source Kurmanji (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAttested Here: Kurmanji Kurdish, Kurmanji, lead paragraphQuote, Attested Here: Kurmanji Kurdish, Kurmanji, lead paragraph
spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions.
Plants of the World Online
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew- Plants Native Here: Feverfew, Stored origin-region property on this entity, cited to this source: Southeastern Europe and the Caucasus, particularly the Balkans
- Plants Native Here: Chervil, Stored origin-region property on this entity, cited to this source: Caucasus and western Asia, naturalized across Europe
- Originated Here: Feverfew, Stored origin-region property on this entity, cited to this source: Southeastern Europe and the Caucasus, particularly the Balkans
- Originated Here: Chervil, Stored origin-region property on this entity, cited to this source: Caucasus and western Asia, naturalized across Europe
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