Regions

Caucasus

Also Known As Caucasian

Citation Formats

General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Caucasus." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/regions/caucasus.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Caucasus. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/regions/caucasus

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-caucasus,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Caucasus},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/regions/caucasus},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The mountain region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, divided by the Greater Caucasus range into a northern zone, home to the Circassian, Abkhaz, Ossetian, Chechen and Ingush peoples, and a southern zone comprising Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Its isolated highland valleys sheltered some of the last living pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religious systems in Europe and West Asia into the modern era.

Facts

Traditions

Sacred and Liturgical Languagesthe subject's own account

Old Georgian, the liturgical language of the Georgian Orthodox Church, and Classical Armenian (Grabar), the liturgical language of the Armenian Apostolic Church since Mesrop Mashtots devised the Armenian alphabet around 405 CE, are the two dominant sacred languages of the region's oldest national churches. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections