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Caucasian Region
Caucasian may refer to: Anthropology *Anything from the Caucasus region ** ** ** ''Caucasian Exarchate'' (1917–1920), an ecclesiastical exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Caucasus region * * * Languages * Northwest Caucasian languages * Northeast Caucasian languages * South Caucasian languages * Dené–Caucasian languages Other uses * Certain types of animals: ** Brown Caucasian cattle, a cattle breed ** Caucasian honey bee, a sub-species of the western honey bee ** North Caucasian pig, a pig breed ** Caucasian snowcock, a type of bird ** Caucasian Shepherd Dog, a dog breed * Caucasian, a nickname for a white Russian (cocktail) See also *Caucasophobia, racism in Russia toward native Caucasus inhabitants *Caucasia (other) *Caucasian peoples (other) *Caucasus (other) *Kavkazsky (other) Kavkazsky (masculine), Kavkazskaya (feminine), or Kavkazskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Kavkazsky District, a district of Krasnodar Krai, Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically been considered as a natural barrier between Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Mount Elbrus in Russia, Europe's highest mountain, is situated in the Western Caucasus. On the southern side, the Lesser Caucasus includes the Javakheti Plateau and the Armenian highlands, part of which is in Turkey. The Caucasus is divided into the North Caucasus and South Caucasus, although the Western Caucasus also exists as a distinct geographic space within the North Caucasus. The Greater Caucasus mountain range in the north is mostly shared by Russia and Georgia as well as the northernmost parts of Azerbaijan. The Lesser Caucasus mountain range in the south is occupied by several independent states, mostly by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, but also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasian Snowcock
The Caucasian snowcock (''Tetraogallus caucasicus'') is a snowcock in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is native to the Caucasus Mountains, particularly the Western Caucasus, where it breeds at altitudes from 2000 to 4000 m on bare stony mountains. It nests in a bare ground scrape and lays typically 5-6 greenish eggs, which are incubated only by the female. Its food is seeds and vegetable matter. It forms small flocks when not breeding. Description This is a long bird. Its plumage is patterned with grey, brown, white and black, but this snowcock looks grey from any distance. The breast is darker and the flanks ruddier than the rest of the body. It has a white throat and a white patch on the side of the neck. The nape is rust-coloured. In flight, this wary bird shows white flight feathers and undertail, and reddish sides to the tail. Male and female plumages are similar, but the juvenile is slightly smaller and duller in appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasus (other)
Caucasus or Caucasia is a geographic region in Eurasia. Caucasus may also refer to: Places *North Caucasus The North Caucasus, ( ady, Темыр Къафкъас, Temır Qafqas; kbd, Ишхъэрэ Къаукъаз, İṩxhərə Qauqaz; ce, Къилбаседа Кавказ, Q̇ilbaseda Kavkaz; , os, Цӕгат Кавказ, Cægat Kavkaz, inh, ..., also Ciscaucasus or Ciscaucasia *South Caucasus, also Transcaucasus or Transcaucasia *Western Caucasus, a western region of the Caucasus in Southern Russia Subdivisions of the Russian Empire *Caucasus Viceroyalty (1785–96), capital Yekaterinograd *Caucasus Oblast (1785-1790), became a part of Caucasus Governorate *Caucasus Governorate (1802–1822) *Caucasus Oblast (1822-1847), successor of Caucasus Governorate *Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917), capital Tiflis *Caucasus Military District (1865–1917) Mountains * Caucasus Mountains, a mountain range in the region * Greater Caucasus, the major mountain range of the Cauca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasian Peoples (other)
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Caucasian peoples may refer to: * The Peoples of the Caucasus, various ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region * Peoples speaking the languages restricted to the Caucasus area: Kartvelian (South Caucasian), Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian * Caucasian race * White people White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasia (other)
Caucasia may refer to: *Caucasus, geographic region between the Black and Caspian Seas. * Caucasia, Antioquia, a municipality in Colombia * ''Caucasia'' (novel), a 1998 book by Danzy Senna * ''Caucasia'' (film), a 2007 Azerbaijani film directed by Farid Gumbatov See also *Caucasus (other) Caucasus or Caucasia is a geographic region in Eurasia. Caucasus may also refer to: Places *North Caucasus The North Caucasus, ( ady, Темыр Къафкъас, Temır Qafqas; kbd, Ишхъэрэ Къаукъаз, İṩxhərə Qauqaz; ... * Caucasian (other) * Kavkazsky (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racism In Russia
Racism in Russia appears mainly in the form of negative attitudes and actions by some Russians toward non-ethnic Russian citizens, immigrants or tourists. Traditionally Russian racism includes Antisemitism in the Soviet Union, anti-Semitism, anti-Ukrainian sentiment, and Tatarophobia, as well as hostility towards the various peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Asia and Africa. According to the United Nations, Russia's Immigration to Russia, immigrant population is the world's third-largest, numbering over 11.6 million. Due to the country's declining population, and the low birth rates and high death rates of ethnic Russians, the Government of Russia, Russian government has tried to increase immigration to the country in the last decade; which has led to millions of migrants flow into Russia from mainly post-Soviet states, many of whom are illegal and remain undocumented. Under serious police pressure, the number of racist acts started to decline in Russia from 2009. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Russian (cocktail)
A white Russian is a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur (e.g., Kahlúa or Tia Maria) and cream served with ice in an old fashioned glass. History The traditional cocktail known as a black Russian, which first appeared in 1949, becomes a white Russian with the addition of cream. Neither drink has any known Russian origin, but both are so-named due to vodka being the primary ingredient. It is unclear which drink preceded the other. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' refers to the first mention of ''white Russian'' in the sense of a cocktail as appearing in California's ''Oakland Tribune'' on November 21, 1965. It was placed in the newspaper as an insert: "White Russian. 1 oz. each Southern, vodka, cream", with "Southern" referring to Coffee Southern, a short-lived brand of coffee liqueur by Southern Comfort. The white Russian saw a surge in popularity after the 1998 release of the film ''The Big Lebowski''. Throughout the movie, it appears as the beverage of choice for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasian Shepherd Dog
The Caucasian Shepherd Dog or Caucasian Ovcharka is a large livestock guardian dog native to the countries of the Caucasus region, notably Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ossetia, and Dagestan. It was developed in the Soviet Union from about 1920 from dogs of the Caucasus Mountains and the steppe regions of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains in Georgia has historically been the principal region of distribution of the Caucasian Shepherd dogs, both in terms of numbers and the quality of the dogs present in the area. History For centuries dogs similar to the Caucasian mountain dogs have served shepherds in the Caucasus Mountains as livestock guardian dogs, defending sheep from predators, mainly wolves and human sheep-thieves. These dogs are distributed over a wide area, and there are considerable regional variations: those in Azerbaijan are fairly tall and lightly-built; those in Dagestan are smaller and roughly square in outline; those of the former Checheno-Ingush ASSR, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Caucasian Pig
The North Caucasian (russian: Ceвepoкaвкaзcкaя, Severokavkazskaya) is a general purpose pig breed from Russia and Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou .... External links * http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/ah759e/AH759E08.htm Pig breeds originating in Russia Animal breeds originating in the Soviet Union {{pig-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Orthodox Church
, native_name_lang = ru , image = Moscow July 2011-7a.jpg , imagewidth = , alt = , caption = Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia , abbreviation = ROC , type = , main_classification = Eastern Orthodox , orientation = Russian Orthodoxy , scripture = Elizabeth Bible ( Church Slavonic) Synodal Bible (Russian) , theology = Eastern Orthodox theology , polity = Episcopal , governance = Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church , structure = Communion , leader_title = , leader_name = , leader_title1 = Primate , leader_name1 = Patriarch Kirill of Moscow , leader_title2 = , leader_name2 = , leader_title3 = Bishops , leader_name3 = 382 (2019) , fellowships_type = Clergy , fellowships = 40,514 full-time clerics, including 35,677 presbyters and 4,837 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasian Honey Bee
The Caucasian honey bee (''Apis mellifera caucasia'', commonly misspelled ''caucasica'') is a subspecies of the western honey bee. Origin The Caucasian honey bee originates from the high valleys of the Central Caucasus. Georgia is the “central homeland” for the subspecies, although the bees also can be found in eastern Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Anatomy and appearance * Shape and size: similar to ''A. m. carnica'' * Chitin color: dark with brown spots at times * Hair color: lead-grey * Tongue length: up to 7.3 mm Behavior Beneficial for beekeeping * Gentle and calm on the comb * Longest proboscis, so it can extract nectar from the deepest nectar tissues, where no other species can * Ardent brood production – raising strong colonies * Colonies reach full strength in mid-summer, which is good for areas where the highest nectar flow is in mid-summer * Very great user of propolis * In its native area a better honey producer than the European dark bee Not beneficial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Caucasian Cattle
The Brown Caucasian is a cattle breed from the Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan (Russia)). Found in the Caucasus region the breed is the result of crossing Brown Swiss and Kostroma Kostroma ( rus, Кострома́, p=kəstrɐˈma) is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kostroma. Popu ... cattle onto the local cattle to produce a variable breed depending on the local stock, with strains for dairy and dairy-beef production. References Cattle breeds Agriculture in Russia Agriculture in Georgia (country) Agriculture in Armenia Agriculture in Azerbaijan Animal breeds originating in the Soviet Union {{cattle-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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