Talk:Caucasus

Caucasus

Iran is not a Caucasian nation, the Caucasus ends at the border with Iran.Azerbaijani 21:49, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I took Iran out, because as far as I know, no part of Iran is in the Caucasus. The border with Iran marks the end of the Caucasus and the beginning of the Iranian plateau (relatively ofcourse).Azerbaijani 21:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Some part of Iran are in Caucasus, Most parts of Caucasus was under control and a part of Iran at Qajar Dynasty, which was given to Russian under several wars. By the way, Iran had a long time of history and culture within Caucasus. Amiria703 (talk) 15:35, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Anyone who considers Greece, the Caucasus or anything in that region European, seriously needs to actually live in these places to appreciate their profound ignorance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.254.81.209 (talk) 14:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Greece not European? What the heck do you mean by that? It was the Greeks who came up with the concept of Europe in the first place! Wardog (talk) 15:41, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Europe is an invented continent. It's really just part of the larger Eurasian land mass. But based on conventional definitions Greece is clearly European. In fact, it was the Greeks who invented the idea of Europe as a separate continent. They considered themselves Europeans back then and still do today. So by all accounts, they are more "European" than anyone else. They symbolize the origins of the concept of Europe. Now do tell us how Greece is not European and how one can realize this by living there? What, just because it has some cultural differences than other parts of Europe? Do you think all European cultures are the same? Europe is not a monolith. Of course there is going to be differences between regions. It's a highly diverse and fragmented place. Is France like Latvia? Is Ireland like Romania? Is Finland like Italy? By your logic Hindu India is not part of "Asia" because it doesn't adhere to the Islamic and Confucian traditions that dominate the continent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheyCallMeTheEditor (talk • contribs) 22:31, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Ethno-Linguistic groups in the Caucasus region- that map is totally wrong. It shows in eastern Turkey language is Kurdish. But in East Turkey there are 3 million Kurdish, and 25 million Turkish. So, what is it? just a biased map... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.228.61.2 (talk) 12:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Image

A more recent map should be used here to show current countries BigEyedFish (talk) 07:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the proposal and think this image is suitable. As caucasus is a geographical region this picture is more suitable for the article that the other images on the wikicommons which are political maps mostly.

Geographical map of Caucasus with national borders shown

-ArazZeynili_talk^contrib_{19:21, 12 January 2008 (UTC)}

To the author - since when Abkhazia became southern Russia and is disputed? It's de facto independent, but for the entire world, it's still part of Georgia.

definition not correct

"The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region in Eurasia bordered on the north by Russia, on the southwest by Turkey, on the west by the Black Sea, on the east by the Caspian Sea, and on the south by Iran." I think the defintion is not correct. The region is not bordered with Turkey's and Russia's borders as it is bordered with Black Sea, Caspian and Iran. So a reader may get a meaning that Caucasia ends with border of Russia and Turkey, which is not correct part of these countries are included in Caucasian region. We should rephrase the first definition sentence.-ArazZeynili_talk^contrib_{19:43, 12 January 2008 (UTC)}

Image addition?

An image of this particular region would be swell... not just maps. - tbone (talk) 14:43, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

You should remove the biblical references. The human genome project proves where modern man originated from over almost 200,000 years ago. From Adam to Noah there was only a thousand years. Anyone living in the Caucus region would have been far removed from the geneology of Noah by at least 190,000 years. Even the ability of humans to speak and spread oral history is relatively new, and the ability to write is even newer. The Garden of Eden was located at the convergence of three rivers near southern Iraq, which is where the Sumarian civilization first began to write. The migration from there to the Caucasus region would have taken thousands of years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.110.172.227 (talk) 06:58, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Caucasian

I accidentally posted the following question in South Caucasus' talk page, but meant to have it here:
"Does this article need to address whether or not South Caucasus has any link at all, direct or indirect, to the nationality known as "Caucasian"? (I confess that I have no idea.) Thanks." 98.202.38.225 (talk) 15:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC) There's no such a thing as nationality Caucasian. Maybe you meant race? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mchedela (talk • contribs) 07:05, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Demographics and ethno-linguistic families

I'm perplexed how the article jumps from the Georgians to the Chechens in terms of largest ethnolinguistic groups. I think you missed the Armenians and the Azeris. I suggest a little research an re-writing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.205.53.50 (talk) 01:26, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

The article says "The largest peoples of the Caucasian language family..." — Armenian and Azeri don't belong to the Caucasian languages. Of course, there's no such thing as "one Caucasian language family", but it's very probable that it refers to people with languages indigenous to the Caucasus region. — N-true (talk) 12:59, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Although, Armenian is classified as a Indo-European language and Azeri, Turkic, it's still misleading not to discuss them when the page is a discussion of the whole territory of the Caucasus. I quickly found this link for info, but there may be others: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Caucasian-languages —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.205.53.50 (talk) 15:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Etymology

Any idea what the etymology of the word Caucasia or Caucasus is? I couldn't find anything in dictionaries. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.106.83.224 (talk) 05:13, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi there this part of the article has some syntax issues both in English as well as Persian (where you read kuhkāf in stead of kāfkuh). Wikijamin (talk) 00:15, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

And what is this malarky? "Etymology The word Caucasus derives from Caucas, the ancestor of the North Caucasians.[2] He was a son of Togarmah, grandson of Biblical Noah's third son Japheth. According to Leonti Mroveli after the fall of the Tower of Babel and the division of humanity into different languages, Togarmah settled with his sons: Kartlos, Haik (Georgian:ჰაოს, Haos), Movakos, Lekos (Lak people), Heros (Kindgom of Hereti), Kavkas, and Egros (Kingdom of Egrisi) between two inaccessible mountains, presumably Mount Ararat and Mount Elbrus." Come on religion based hearsay as an etymology?

---I find the above comment funny. Seriously though, the statement of the name descended from a folkloric person should not be presented as a cold hard fact unless there is other evidence to support it. I am surprised this got by. Few English speaking people probably read about the Caucasus. I read a little Russian, but not much. It looks like the Etymology section of the Russian wiki page mentions Herodotus. 74.101.163.144 (talk) 22:11, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Etymonline says: "Caucasus: mountain range between Europe and the Middle East, from Gk. kaukhasis, said by Pliny ("Natural History," book six, chap. XVII) to be from a Scythian word similar to kroy-khasis, lit. "(the mountain) ice-shining, white with snow." But possibly from a Pelasgian root *kau- meaning "mountain." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.190.226 (talk) 19:11, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East

It surely isn't between these places. It must surely be in one, some or all of them. Also, the middle east is in Asia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.140.57.113 (talk) 11:43, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Ethnic Groups In Caucasus Region 2009.jpg

first politologia should explain this edit.--Bouron (talk) 08:16, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

And please explain this edit. --Kober^Talk 08:16, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Why I should explain it. File:Caucasus-ethnic en.svg was put to the article earlier. compare there dates.

Lets not to start edit war. we have talk page to discuss new edits what is politologias edit.--Bouron (talk) 08:53, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Politologia's edit does not contradict any of Wikipedia's policies, while your's does. You have reverted him/her several times without any explanation given on talk.--Kober^Talk 08:58, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

I reverted her one time. see history.--Bouron (talk) 09:47, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

I was waiting for explanations for politologia's map is better CIA's map. --Bouron (talk) 17:49, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Map

The map used in this article, claiming to show the Caucasus, shows only the North Caucasus plus Georgia. In addition, it appears that it is a copyright violation, and likely to be deleted. Can anyone find a suitable map that covers the whole region? Skinsmoke (talk) 23:05, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Map substituted. It's not exactly the best map, but is better than anything else available on Wikimedia Commons. Skinsmoke (talk) 23:13, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Partially recognised states

South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagomo Karabakh are not independent states and should not be listed as such at the beginning of the article. I realise they've been put in italics to indicate that they are partially recognised, but they should also be listed under the countries they officially belong to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.102.43.72 (talk) 23:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

They're all functionally independent. It makes more sense to put them as italicised states than italicised autonomous regions, especially as both Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia don't at all match administrative divisions of their claimant. CMD (talk) 17:06, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't matter if you consider them to be functionally independent. These areas are officially part of Georgia and Azerbaijan and this is not acknowledged in the list. It's fine to mention that they are partially recognised as independent states but to have no mention of the countries these places officially belong to is ridiculous. 86.17.19.215 (talk) 09:46, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Good point. We should add that to the note at the bottom. CMD (talk) 10:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

The note at the bottom doesn't tell us which countries these areas officially belong to. The only sensible (and neat) way to include all the information is to list the areas under their respective countries and mention in the footnote that they are partially recognised as independent. There is also an NPOV issue in listing unrecognised countries as sovereign states in the main list and only mentioning their disputed status in a footnote. It should be the other way round. The official information should be in the main list and the unofficial recognition should be mentioned in the footnote. Seems pretty obvious that the official info. should take precedence. 86.17.19.215 (talk) 11:45, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Hence "we should add". I've now done this. Official information is not more neutral than unofficial information, and actually has far more reason to hold a POV. CMD (talk) 17:23, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Not in an encyclopaedia. I still think it's dumb (and far less neutral) to have unrecognised states listed as sovereign nations with their true status only mentioned in a footnote, but I don't care sufficiently to change it.

86.17.19.215 (talk) 16:47, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Abkhazia, Karabakh

Abkhazia and karabakh is recognized by UN, EU Nato and by 99% of world government as parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan. excluding Russia nauru vanautu tuvalu and venezuela. Chipmunksdavis u are provoking separatism and radicalism, if karabakh is listed as country than Chechnya must be listed as country too, Ingushetia, Dagestan Circassia Kabardia must be listed as countries too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.73.210.231 (talk • contribs)

Chechnya, Ingushetia, etc. have no strong de facto control over their territories. More information can be found at sovereignty and list of states with limited recognition. CMD (talk) 15:38, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Chimpunkdavis is vandal person. Abkhazia and Karabakh are official territories of Azerbaijan and Georgia.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.73.208.159 (talk • contribs)

For crying out loud, now Nagomo Karabakh is under azerbaijan but the georgian ones are still listed as independent. So now it's both wrong an inconsistent. It really shouldn't be this hard to compile a list of countries. I'm fixing it to be in accordance with official statuses and mentioning the partial recognition in the footnote. Hopefully that will be the end of this. 86.17.19.215 (talk) 03:06, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

That was another IP. The official status of NKR and South Ossetia according to Azerbaijan and Georgia is that they don't even exist as administrative entities, despite what our table would imply. The current footnote even notes which countries the breakaway states are considered to be part of. Wikipedia doesn't just follow official positions. See WP:Official name as an example. CMD (talk) 11:43, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

National borders and statuses are arbitrary man made concepts. There is no metaphysically true position here. Official international recognition is the only standard we have to work from. I have the united nations and 99% of the world on my side. On your side you have recognition from a handful of nations, some of which are not even recognised themselves. Give me one good reason why your version of events should take precedence over the official version. 86.17.19.215 (talk) 23:10, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

It's not my version of events, it's the reality on the ground. You don't need a metaphysical position to say that Georgia has absolutely no control in Sukhumi, or Azerbaijan in Stepanakert. As much as the Nagorno-Karabakh border may be a man made concept, it's also a bloody long trench in the ground. CMD (talk) 00:18, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Yout perception of the situation on the ground is not an objective standard. This is an article about a geopolitical area. The question is whether these places are independent sovereign nations; not whether Tbilisi has real control over them. There's more to being an independent sovereign nation than having control.86.17.19.215 (talk) 00:39, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

It's not my perception of the situation, it is the actual situation, which is pretty objective, as far as standards go. Please see the Declarative theory of statehood. There's more than one way to define a state. The dispute over their statehood is indicated by the italics, and by the footnote. CMD (talk) 11:17, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

And the dispute over their statehood is mentioned in my version in the footnote. A footnote is where it belongs. The fact that abkhazia and south ossettia enjoy a high degree of autonomy does not mean that they are free states with the same status as Russia or Georgia. They should not be on the same level of the list as them. They are bound, by international law, to Georgia and should be listed under it. Their de facto independence is noteworthy, which is why it's included in the footnote. Nagorno-Karabakh is on even shakier ground because it's not even recognised by any real country. 86.17.19.215 (talk) 15:53, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Abkhazia and South Ossetia don't "enjoy a high degree of autonomy", they function completely separately from Georgia. Euphemisms won't change this. Placing them on the level of subdivisions gives the misleading impression that they function as such, when they are, as you say, de facto independent. Nagorno-Karabakh is also completely independent, totally outside of the control of the Azerbaijani government. CMD (talk) 18:30, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

It seems completely clear that these entities should be under their own flag because of the fact that they are de facto independent. For me, thats it. We,as wikipedia cannot take a side in this dispute - simply present things as they are. The fact is they exist and this should be represented. Outback the koala (talk) 02:54, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Agree on flags, but the main dispute here is whether they should be listed under their claimant states in the same way as the autonomous regions are, or in line with states (in both cases italicised). CMD (talk) 12:28, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

I would list them with states. If they are italicised then that would handle the dispute issue. Outback the koala (talk) 23:32, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

If those breakaway regions are considered de-jure parts of certain states, that connection should be demonstrated. Completely detaching them I believe is wrong. Grandmaster 17:40, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

It's demonstrated in their being italicised, and explicitly noted, state by state, in the note below. CMD (talk) 18:22, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

That may not be sufficient. Listing the unrecognized statelets in almost the same manner as de-jure states gives a wrong impression that they all have the same status. While the footnotes provide explanation of their status, the visual display kind of contradicts that. I think this causes most of objections. Italicising is not so much visible. I think the unrecognized entities should somehow be grouped together with the states they are recognized to be parts of. Grandmaster 08:02, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

The italicising is part of the visual display, which in no way contradicts the note. Let's not belittle readers by assuming they can't put two and two together (3 including the map). CMD (talk) 17:25, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

As Russian citizen, I can proove that Tbilisi has NO control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian laws have no power in these regions, people of these regions don't have Georgian citizenship, they don't study Georgian language and there's no titles on this language; these territories have their own flag, coat of arms and hymn, own vehicle registration plates. As a national currency uses Russian ruble but not Georgian lari.217.66.156.142 (talk) 08:20, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Clarification needed

Perhaps there should be a brief NPOV mention of disputed territories in this region with a {{hatnote}} or {{Further}} template:

For further information on disputed territories in this region, see [this], [that] and [the other].

-or-

Further information: This, That, and The other

~E:74.60.29.141 (talk) 10:02, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

There should probably be a section on states and disputed territories. We can just shift the list from the lead. CMD (talk) 12:21, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

backward

The following paragraph needs to be bumped ahead of the paragraph immediately above it: "In modern times, the Caucasus became a region of war among the Ottoman Empire, Iran and Russia, and was eventually conquered by the latter (see Caucasian Wars)." The article on Caucasian Wars says they took place between 1817–1864, which is a century before the 1918 conquest by the new Soviet Union. The indicated paragraph follows directly from the final sentence of the paragraph it should follow. 71.163.114.49 (talk) 17:45, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done, thanks! CMD (talk) 19:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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This is a GORGEOUS article!!!! =

Just happened by it and wanted to say kudos... I love all the info, the flags, all the pictures, the terms in different languages, etc... Really well done! I'm nominating it for a Good Article. Wikimandia (talk) 21:46, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Added Kurdish and Ukrainian to Modern Endonyms

Ukrainians/Cossacks and Kurds/Yazidis both have significant populations in the region, so I included Ukrainian and Kurdish to the Modern Endonyms subsection. Adorkable Corgi (talk) 08:56, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

People of the Caucasus and Ethnic Ukrainians Adorkable Corgi (talk) 09:38, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Caucasus region

One explanation for my edit. Caucasus is located in between Iran and Turkey. But that does not mean Iran and Turkey a part of the Caucasus. Bruskom ^{talk to me} 03:25, 27 January 2016 (UTC) <-- Blocked sock of User:Iraqi man10

On Transcription of Tehraner Persian (Received Pronunciation) قفقاز

Dear User:LouisAragon, Generally the letter "q" stands for the phoneme /q/ (Voiceless uvular stop). There is no such a phoneme in Tehraner Persian. The Perso-Arabic letter "qaf" in a typical RP of Tehraner Persian syllable structure pronounces /ɢ/ or /ɣ/ (intervocalic positions). On the other hand, despite the historical Persian vowel system that the vowel pairs differ in length /a/ vs. /a:/ (quantitative distinction), in RP Tehraner Persian they differ in quality /æ/ (near-open front unrounded vowel) vs. /ɒ/ (open back rounded vowel). So "Ghæfghaz" is a better Romanisation/Transcription for قفقاز. X.goodarzie 13:30, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Geographic Map

Current geographic map is required to be changed. Regions are labeled with nor current legal names neither ones in any other period. The region which is on north east part of Turkish Republic is labeled with utterly irrelevant name. This map is incorrect and inappropriate. It is required to be changed. Aruperusaidu (talk) 06:57, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Partially or unrecognized states

Armenia is not recognized by the Pakistani government, so we must add Armenia to Partially or unrecognized states.

Pakistan was the first country along with Turkey to recognize Azerbaijan after its independence. Pakistan does not recognize Armenia and will never do so. We speak with one voice on NagornoKarabakh. On 14th March, 2008 we together passed the first Resolution 882 on Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan has supported us on Kashmir and we are thankful to you for that.

Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed

Pakistan has not recognized Armenia nor established diplomatic relations with that country

Eldar Ibrahimov

Beshogur (talk) 14:23, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

That section is for countries that either have no recognition or some. Armenia is recognized by every other country in the world. Also partially means: only in part; to a limited extent. How is one country out of close to 200 partially?Ninetoyadome (talk) 18:12, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Armenia is not recognized by all countries. Get your facts! Beshogur (talk) 14:05, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

According to Pakistan, they are the only country that doesnt recognize Armenia. http://defence.pk/threads/pakistan-the-only-country-not-recognizing-armenia.298703/ Maybe you should get your facts straight. Ninetoyadome (talk) 16:25, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

@Beshogur; I hope you're actually joking with your proposal, because otherwise you're blatantly violating WP:GAME. Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 17:45, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

English-language Caucasus map?

Is anyone able to make an English-language version of the French-language Caucasus SVG map used in this article? I added the English translations of the French places names in the comments section of this Graphics Lab request. Thank you! Ketone16 (talk) 20:37, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Never mind; I created my own English version and added it to the article. Ketone16 (talk) 04:06, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

References

References

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Demonym/adjective?

Should it be included in the infobox? And which one? It's either Caucasian or Caucasic, or both.--46.172.130.105 (talk) 23:36, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

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Infobox

@Setenay88: I accept that Iran and Turkey are not in the Caucusus, but then, do you know to reformat the infobox? Leo1pard (talk) 04:45, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Never mind, Off-shell fixed it. Leo1pard (talk) 07:27, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2018

Please add the flags of Iran and Turkey, in the right hand side table under the map of the region. There should be six countries which are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey, not four. Jacob485 (talk) 04:08, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: Iran and Turkey are not Caucasus. — LeoFrank  ^Talk 07:05, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Map is misleading since it obscures most of North Caucasus

@LouisAragon I don't know how you can say a map which misleads readers as to the extent of the region is more "useful". It's the first image they will see in the entire article and it clearly infers the region is much smaller then it actually is. Also you can't see any of the labels at the size it is in the infobox, that's why locator maps typically go in the infobox and more detailed maps go in the article body. I can't find a detailed map showing the whole region, but I'm pretty sure it's far more preferred that we have a map which shows the actual extent of the region as the first thing the reader is going to see. Rob984 (talk) 14:53, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

@Rob984: I understand what you mean, but it can be argued both ways. Yeah, a detailed map showing the whole region would be ideal. Anyways, lets see what other editors of this topic area think @Yerevantsi: @Ymblanter: @Kober:. Do you prefer this map for the infobox or this one? - LouisAragon (talk) 20:03, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

I do not have a strong opinion on this, any of the two maps would be fine.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:11, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Recent reverts

LouisAragon I'm adding quotes from the Britannica source now but in the future, but I don't think you reviewed the Britannica source before reverting. Please make sure the content is actually verified by the inline citations. If there are other reliable sources with different views we can discuss that here, but we can't cite Britannica for the statement that A less common definition also includes portions of northwestern Iran and northeastern Turkey. when Britannica itself uses that definition. (The 1910 Britannica doesn't, but the most recent one that we've cited does:

West of the Kura-Aras Lowland rises the Lesser Caucasus range, which is extended southward by the Dzhavakhet Range and the Armenian Highland, the latter extending southwestward into Turkey.

Britannica is also a pretty heavyweight source, so whatever sources are brought to bear on this would need to be equally authoritative. I'm absolutely not going to get behind miscited sources the way it was done in this article.Seraphim System ^(talk) 22:28, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Polinarok

I am sorry I take back Polinarok's changes because I see already LouisAragon earlier takes back same changes for "POV" and Polinarok gave reason "Caucasus is a borderland" but current article already says this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agamede (talk • contribs) 00:18, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

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Countries of the Caucasus

I added three countries to the list, since parts of Iran, Iraq and Turkey are also considered by many as being part of the Transcaucasus and therefore, part of the Caucasus. I quote, from this source, page 72 : "Transcaucasia is in many respects part of the Middle East and more specifically of a broader area encompassing parts of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq and eastern Turkey."---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:37, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

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Armenian and Circassian genocide

I see nothing about the Armenian genocide in this article. This, and to a lesser extent, the Circassian genocide, are important to the history of this region.Naddruf (talk) 03:50, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

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Autonomous republics and federal regions

As per the USSR administration, the autonomous republics and oblasts are referred to the regions with limited autonomy, not the ones with full independence. This concept was applied to all non-abolished autonomous entities after the union republics became independent in 1991. The term "autonomous" does not mean the central government has no control over the territory, but rather it means that the territory has certain autonomy. Georgia and Azerbaijan abolished South Ossetia Autonomous Oblast and Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast respectively in 1990-1991. Officially there are no such autonomies recognized by the central governments. I propose to remove Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) from the list of "Autonomous republics and Federal regions", but to retain that under "Partially recognized states". Same is already applied to South Ossetia in this article and why not to do the same with Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) for accuracy and consistency? KHE'O (talk) 18:37, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Seems that we both have our definitions of autonomy relating to this topic, albeit both seem to be correct (Artsakh is ultimately an autonomous country). But meh, it's a minor gripe, go ahead, I retract my objection. --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks --KHE'O (talk) 19:19, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Artsakh Autonomy

@HistoryofIran and Kheo17: Hello. It seems there is an active edit war ongoing on the article. Please try to settle it here. I accidentally got involved when I did the same edit, not knowing that it was subject to an edit war between you guys. Personally, it doesn't make much sense for Artsakh to be in the list of Autonomous territories since, firstly, Republic of Artsakh is a breakaway, de-facto independent state, not an autonomous republic and within Azerbaijan's legislature, there is no autonomy given yet to Nagorno-Karabakh (it was abolished in 1991). So, currently, only autonomous region in Azerbaijan is Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. If Azerbaijan controls Artsakh or not doesn't matter since a territory's autonomy is decided by its de-jure country (and not even Artsakh claims it's autonomous since it claims to be independent). — CuriousGolden (T·C) 19:11, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for a third party view. --KHE'O (talk) 19:20, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

uzbekistan

uzbekistan in part of kavkaz so why isn’t it on the page? 2A02:1810:2426:3C00:DC55:6014:3620:3E8F (talk) 22:48, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

The population in the "total" column is incorrect. 172.220.35.10 (talk) 17:23, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Geology

Why, in an article for a major mountain range, is there no geology section? 174.208.232.109 (talk) 17:19, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

"Caucasus" or "Caucasia" relationship with "Caucasus Mountains"

"The Caucasus (/ˈkɔːkəsəs/) or Caucasia[3][4] (/kɔːˈkeɪʒə/) is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have conventionally been considered as a natural barrier between Europe and Asia, bisecting the Eurasian landmass."

The article opens describing the term "Caucasus" which it equates with "Caucasia", and then goes on to describe some characteristics of "The Caucasus Mountains", implying a special relationship between these mountains and "Caucasus", without explaining what that relationship is. Why would an article about Caucasus immediately go into interesting properties of the Caucasus Mountains? Assumedly they are closely related somehow, and this should be explained explicitly, not just implied.203.158.42.210 (talk) 16:41, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

What about northeastern Turkey?

Turkish northeastern provinces (Iğdır, Kars, Ardahan) are historically regarded as Caucasian and even today the culture in these provinces have common elements with the Caucasus (especially Georgia and Azerbaijan). I believe Turkey can be mentioned under “Political geography” in this context. What are your thoughts? Found also a webpage but it’s about ecoregions. 188.57.99.166 (talk) 22:03, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

References

What is the point of this map within different borders of Georgian SSR, if the reasons of that difference is being cover up?

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in the mid-20th century, during Stalin's rule, when it included a number of territories in the North Caucasus, territories of the republics of Caucasian nationalities deported during the Stalinist era repressions.

Such an explanation is absolutely essential! Because after all, if georgian nationalists very proudly inserted in this article this map of extended borders of Georgia,then it's necessary to explain why are this borders expanded on the northward in that manner. And the reason is that, because Stalin deported nations of karachais,balkars,chechens and ingushes and then adjusted southern parts of their republics to the Georgian SSR. Moreover, the political and ethnic repressions of the Stalin era continued until 1956—three years after Stalin’s own death. Armanum Luwian (talk) 04:16, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

Read the basic Wikipedia policies that were linked on your talk page first. Mellk (talk) 04:28, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

In case you wish to return to this issue, you are welcome to add some detail about the transfer of territories to the Georgian SSR under Stalin in the main text, provided you cite a reliable source. The relevant policy is verifiability. Your proposed change to the caption does not say anything about which autonomous republics were abolished and which groups were affected (and of course no source is cited). It is also misleading because you referred to "republics of Caucasian nationalities" which implies the union republics.

Considering there were significant changes in borders and autonomy throughout this period, you can suggest a more representative image as well, but you need to get consensus for any change first. Mellk (talk) 09:02, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

The entire premise implied here that Stalin was somehow "nice" to Georgia because he was Georgian is not academically supported and is offensive. Tens of thousands of Georgians were executed. Parts of Georgia were actually given away to Russia and Azerbaijan SSR. In fact, Stalin didn't even want Georgia having its own republic at all, which was one of the main conflict points in the Georgian affair.

Even if reliable sources are provided for Stalin's rationale for transferring these territories, the emphasis on Stalin or nationalism in this very specific context can still be challenged as selective and WP:UNDUE because it glosses over many more instances where his decisions were actually very harmful to this "home" country. --LeontinaVarlamonva (talk) 15:23, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

Well, we can't really say he favored any particular nation. I wouldn't mind adding some detail about border changes but yes, we shouldn't imply that Stalin was motivated by what Armanum Luwian has suggested. Mellk (talk) 15:33, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

Stalin was a cruel dictator and only favored those people who obey him, his cruel orders, people from any nationality, georgians included. But some nationalities of the Soviet Union and of the Caucasus particularly he targeted especially.

The talks are about the MAP , which was included in the article.

Why, for what reason those borders was expanded this way towards North, why not to explain that? Very interesting situation.

The many other changes of the borders in Soviet period on the Caucasus, on the North and on the South, was implicated by the reasons to finally border nationalities of the region on their disputed territories, so they can live in peace side by side in the same Union state. An other question, if those borders changes were right or wrong, but proposed intentions supposedly was good. For the same reason disputed territories of the districts of Belokani and Zakatali was transferred from Soviet Georgia in favor to Soviet Azerbaijan in 1921. At that time Joseph [Stalin was not the ruler of the Soviet Russia.

The reason of the border change on this map is completely different. The borders of the Soviet Georgia was only once significantly changed northward , and it happened in the period between 1944 and 1957.

The reason of this border changes was deportation of the small mountainous nationalities of karachays, balkars, chechens and ingushes to Kazakhstan and Central Asia by the Stalin's false accusations. And then southern parts of the autonomous republics ofI Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Checheno-Ingushetia republics were transferred by Stalin to his native Soviet Georgia. Stalin was at that time the only sole ruler of the Soviet Union and those changes of the border he did was not over any disputed territories between local nationalities , no it was after the ethnic cleansing and the deportation of the four north-caucasian nationalities and parts of their native lands given to Georgia.

It was pure tirany and abuse of the small nationalities.

And yes, Joseph Stalin was often acting in favor of his native Georgia. Otherwise he would not turn Abkhazian Soviet Socialist Republic in to Abkhaz ASSR an autonomy of Georgia , after he dissolve TSFSR in 1936 Armanum Luwian (talk) 01:41, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

You really need to familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia rules before editing, especially ones about that every claim needs to be sourced with sufficient amount of references, and that personal attacks must not be used under any circumstances on Wikipedia. Your very first comment, about users who added the map being supposedly "Georgian nationalists", already involves a lot of assumptions about people which you don't know and don't know their motivations whatsoever, showing hostile attitude towards other users. Attempting to force the issue instead of using the talk page and edit warring will only result in your account be reported and banned for rule violations. It looks like your account has already been suspended for 2 weeks, so I don't think taking hard route will benefit you. Geokrieg (talk) 15:24, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

First of all, being nationalist of your own nationality is not a bad thing at all, it is you now portraying my words about "Georgian nationalists" as an insults to you.

And second, that map is showing a very bad thing for Georgia, nothing to be proud of. That map shows how after the deportation of small native Caucasian nationalities, parts of they native lands was given to Soviet Georgia. Armanum Luwian (talk) 23:09, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

You can suggest using a different image or adding additional images. We cannot add unsourced commentary. This also does not follow WP:RS because we cannot use images as sources. Mellk (talk) 15:57, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. But when I'm adding additional maps and information user LeontinaVarlamova start edition wars with insults and falsifications. Armanum Luwian (talk) 23:01, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Your additions had signs of AI. It also gave error message "Can't load alternatives Try again" which you now removed but covering signs of AI use does not make generated content valid. Pointing this out is not an insult. Using AI informations gets entire articles flagged and then others have to spend time cleaning it, which is very difficult.

As for additional maps you brought, having a second Armenia map in that small section creates image sandwiching when there's already existing map showing Armenia at its greatest extent. I start to believe you're here on some kind of crusade introducing all this just to "stick it" to Georgia, which seems to trigger you based on original discussion. Thas why I suggested looking over WP:SOAP--LeontinaVarlamonva (talk) 23:12, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

I don't use any AI, because I simply don't know how to, that's why this statement of your about "using AI" is falsifying and insulting.

I was just simply provide credible citations and references about subjects, that you want to cover up. You seem like work very hard , to see "work of AI" in the translation of citations from russian to english.

And to me it looks like you are on some kind of "crusade" to diminished or cover up some things that you don't like in the historical events of the Caucasus, and other wise portrait events not the way they happened which regards to Georgian borders change in 1944-57, and now also maps of medieval Armenia.

The map I insert is not about greatest extend of ancient Armenia in the I century B.C., it is about Bagratid Armenia, a per. iod of thousand years later in X-XI centuries, please don't confuse readers with your false statements.

And that map is not "sandwiching" the article, like you love to say, it's again false accusation.

I placed map about Bagratid Armenia in the right spot on the left, where article speaking , about Bagratid Armenia.

But map of the Bagratid Georgia in 12-13 centuries should not be on top of this topic, it should be where it said about Bagratid Georgia period. Armanum Luwian (talk) 00:48, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

I dont know how to respond to this wall of text. Image sandwiching issue you create is not something I have to "prove" it is apparent to anybody who can see. AI use is also clear from weird error message text I found in your initial addition. If goal here is to talk and tire everybody into letting you do what you want, it can't happen because then entire article will be tainted with AI. I've already spent time on other articles cleaning AI additions which resulted in whole pages being marked for AI.--LeontinaVarlamonva (talk) 19:45, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

To clarify these are not full list of problems. Another map you keep adding is also form of original research because "ethnic borders" are hand drawn...by you.--LeontinaVarlamonva (talk) 19:55, 3 August 2026 (UTC)