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
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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 in ...
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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=kəs ...
, 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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 192 ...
, 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 Tatarop ...
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 Northeas ...
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Caucasus (disambiguation)
Caucasus or Caucasia is a geographic region in Eurasia.
Caucasus may also refer to:
Places
*North Caucasus, also Ciscaucasus or Ciscaucasia
*South Caucasus, also Transcaucasus or Transcaucasia
*Western Caucasus, a western region of the Caucasus ...
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Kavkazsky (disambiguation)
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