Sentence examples for caucasus for from inspiring English sources
"These people aren't called the cretins of the Caucasus for nothing".
The Russians have been fighting terrorists in the northern Caucasus for some years.
A separatist rebellion has been simmering in Chechnya, a Muslim region in the Caucasus, for more than a decade.
The Terek River represented the southern frontier of Russian settlement in the Caucasus for much of the 19th century.
About 18,000 "Mountain Jews," who have been in the Caucasus for generations, maintain an enclave in northern Azerbaijan.
"Russia has played a positive, stabilising role in the Caucasus for centuries, a guarantor of security, cooperation and progress," the Russian prime minister said at the weekend.
The divisions run so deep that ethnic Georgians and Ossetians have separate gas and electric grids, said Magdalena Frichova, who has run the Caucasus program for the International Crisis Group.
As Caucasus editor for the site, my own initial physical contact with Azerbaijani bloggers soon led to meeting many more online.
"Kafkas" is the Turkish word for "Caucasus," and Kars is also home to Kafkas Medical Supplier, Kafkas News Agency, and the Kafkas warbler.
"It's nothing less than miraculous," said Lawrence Scott Sheets, the Caucasus program director for the International Crisis Group, an independent organization that focuses on conflict resolution.
Languages in East Asia tend to have tonal vowels, those of the north-eastern Caucasus are known for consonantal complexity: Ubykh has 78 consonant sounds.
