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 (country), Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range ...
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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 Cau ...
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Northeast Caucasian languages
The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestani or ''Vainakh-Daghestani'', is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in Northern Azerbaijan as well as ...
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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 i ...
Other uses
* Certain types of animals:
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Brown Caucasian cattle, a cattle breed
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Caucasian honey bee, a sub-species of the western honey bee
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North Caucasian pig, a pig breed
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Caucasian snowcock, a type of bird
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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 19 ...
, a dog breed
* Caucasian, a nickname for a
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 ...
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 anti-Semitism, anti-Ukrainian sentiment, and Tataroph ...
toward native Caucasus inhabitants
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Caucasia (disambiguation)
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Caucasian peoples (disambiguation)
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Caucasus (disambiguation)
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Kavkazsky (disambiguation)
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