The Transcaucasus

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The Transcaucus Railway (Russian: Закавка́зская желе́зная доро́га) was the first railway in South Caucasus.

It was funded by the Russian Empire as a strategic railway connecting the Black Sea to the Caspian railway would allow the Russian army to have better control of Caucasia.

Also with the Trans-Caspian railway, Russia could transport troops from Locale: Russian Empire, Soviet Union. Tschebull gives us his "magnum opus," continuing with the "taxonomic" approach first visible in his pioneering catalog, inon Kazak Caucasian rugs.

Focus is on a particular slice of textiles woven in East Azarbayjan and the The Transcaucasus book. Treats materials and structure seriously. Is also interested in design progression/5(9). Rugs and Flatweaves of the Transcaucasus. Author/Artists: Wright, Richard E. Publisher & Year: Richard Wright, Very nice and clean.

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The Transcaucasus. [Thomas Streissguth] -- Discusses the history, geography, people, and culture of the former Soviet republics, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Also looks at the geopolitical role of these countries in current world affairs.

The Transcaucasian Trail (TCT) will be a world-class, long-distance hiking trail more than 3,km in length, following the Greater and Lesser Caucasus Mountains and connecting roughly two dozen national parks and protected areas in the region. Explores the region between the Caspian and Black Seas, and the sights, sounds and people of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.

Documentation of people and landscapes in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan for MIR Corporation. In order to accomplish this mission, we spent grape harvest season in the TransCaucasus lands where Greek mythology tells us that Dionysus gave.

Find Stones of the TransCaucasus by Victor Bloomfield at Blurb Books. Black and white photos by Victor Bloomfield of the remarkable stonework in churches, monast Released on: J Get this from a library. The Transcaucasus in transition. [Paul B Henze; United States. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.; Rand Corporation.] -- The three Soviet Transcaucasian republics--Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia--experienced growing political and ethnic unrest, as well as increased aspirations for self-determination, in the late.

Transcaucasia, Russian Zakavkazye, a small but densely populated region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains. It includes three independent states: Georgia in the northwest, Azerbaijan in the east, and Armenia, situated largely on a high mountainous plateau south of Georgia and west of er these countries have an area of ab square miles.

The region that I am calling the "Trans-Caucasus," or Transcaucasia (sometimes referred to as the South Caucasus), derives its name from the Russian word "Закавказ" (zakavkaz), meaning "beyond the Caucasus Mountains." This applies to Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; countries that border Iran and Turkey to the south and Russia to the north.

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Transcaucasus and Central Asia. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1 provides background information about the region as a whole, with particular attention to the Soviet legacy and the region's abundant natural resources (especially oil and gas).

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The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR; Закавказская демократическая Федеративная Республика (ЗКДФР); Zakavkazskaya Demokraticheskaya Federativnaya Respublika (ZKDFR); April 22 – ), also known as the Transcaucasian Federation, was a short-lived South Caucasian state extending across what are now the modern-day Capital: Tbilisi.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in and the chronic membership deferrals from the European Union (EU) led some analysts to the qualified conclusion that Turkey would seek a more independent, regionally hegemonic role, competing with Russia and Iran for spheres of influence in the Turkic newly-independent states (NIS).

2 Increased Turkish involvement in the Cited by: 3. Transcaucasus States Map SEE INSIDE Have students fill in their outline to include countries or regions mentioned in a lesson, other geographic or topographic information, or a historical timeline of developments in the region.

About this book. different plant species are described. Most of them are typical to the Transcaucasus region, while some are rare or unique. All of the species are decribed and photographed.

Almost all photographs were taken in nature, some in remote and almost inaccessible sites. The Transcaucasus railway was above all a strategic railway. First, it provided easy transportation for the military in the Caucasus, an area that was quite insecure and disputed by the Ottoman.

Second, the soldiers could now access the Caucasus from the Caspian Sea rather than the Black Sea that was not controlled by the Russian Navy. The Transcaucasian Trail, Washington D. 6, likes 53 talking about this. A community dedicated to building a long-distance hiking trail through the Caucasus ers: K.

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Free shipping for many products!Abstract. Central Asia and the Transcaucasus form a strategic belt that arches from the Black Sea to China. Together with the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, three of the six Soviet successor states which comprise this area — Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkmenistan — wrap around Iran’s northern : John Calabrese.