Caucasian may refer to:
Anthropology
*Anything from the
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 ...
region
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** ''Caucasian Exarchate'' (1917–1920), an ecclesiastical exarchate of the
Russian Orthodox Church
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in the Caucasus region
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Languages
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Northwest Caucasian languages
The Northwest Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes ''Pontic languages'' (from the historical region of Pontus, in contrast to ''Caspian languages'' for the Northeast Cauc ...
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Northeast Caucasian languages
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South Caucasian languages
The Kartvelian languages (; ka, ქართველური ენები, tr; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languagesBoeder (2002), p. 3) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primari ...
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Dené–Caucasian languages
Dené–Caucasian is a proposed language family that includes widely-separated language groups spoken in the Northern Hemisphere: Sino-Tibetan languages, Yeniseian languages, Burushaski and North Caucasian languages in Asia; Na-Dené languages in ...
Other uses
* Certain types of animals:
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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=kəstr ...
, a cattle breed
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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 ...
, a sub-species of the western honey bee
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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 Uzb ...
, a pig breed
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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 a ...
, a type of bird
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Caucasian Shepherd Dog, a dog breed
* Caucasian, a nickname for a
white Russian (cocktail)
See also
*Caucasophobia,
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 ...
toward native Caucasus inhabitants
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Caucasia (disambiguation)
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 ...
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Caucasian peoples (disambiguation) 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 C ...
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Caucasus (disambiguation)
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; ...
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Kavkazsky (disambiguation) Kavkazsky (masculine), Kavkazskaya (feminine), or Kavkazskoye (neuter) may refer to:
*Kavkazsky District, a district of Krasnodar Krai, Russia
* Kavkazsky (rural locality) (''Kavkazskaya'', ''Kavkazskoye''), several rural localities in Russia
*Kavka ...
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