Sentence examples for caucasus of from inspiring English sources

The structures of the Lesser Caucasus, of the Talish Mountains, and of the Dzhavakhet-Armenian ranges likewise originated from folds uplifted from the Alpine geosyncline.

Throughout 730 and 731 Maslama, with a large army at his disposal, cleared the provinces south of the Caucasus of the Khazars, and then advanced beyond the mountains, sacking a couple of settlements and defeating the khagan in pitched battle.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Russia's Chechnya republic, says that the Islamic State (IS) was just bluffing when it announced the creation of its first wilayat, or governorate, in the northern Caucasus of Russia earlier this week.

If war begins, it may ignite the Caucasus, Sergei Artuniov, head of the Caucasus department of the Moscow institute of ethnology, said.

He noted approvingly that in some of the most violent regions of the Caucasus, children of those who have died are taken in by relatives, in contrast to the rest of the country.

The battlefields of the Northwest Caucasus, particularly of Sochi — the last stand of the Caucasians against Russia — offered a clear, if distant, comparison with the outcome of the Civil War.

The Russian Caucasus republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia are the focus of a revolt by militant Islamists who use suicide bombings, assassinations, and attacks on the army and police in their struggle to build an Islamic Caliphate in the Caucasus.

Magomed Yevloyev, the editor of an opposition website in Russia's north Caucasus territory of Ingushetia, was detained by the police as he arrived in Nazran on a flight from Moscow on August 31st.

The Russian North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria has fallen prey to the instability afflicting other parts of the region and to the contagion of conflict in nearby Chechnya.

The Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan is no exception.

After the August war, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the three Caucasus countries of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, all crave reassurance against an irredentist Russia.