The Kura is an east-flowing river south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains which drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus east into the Caspian...
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Area of Kano State Kura (South Caucasus river), a river in Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan Kura (Russia), a river in Russia Kura Test Range, a testing...
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the Kura river. It drains the south side of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, while the Kura drains the north side of the Lesser Caucasus. The river's total...
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Levant and Trialeti culture of the South Caucasus and Armenian Highlands. In Nakhchivan region and nearby areas, Kura-Araxes culture was followed by Nakhchivan...
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Kura River (or Cyrus River) may refer to following rivers: Kura (South Caucasus river), a major international river that drains into the Caspian Sea Kura...
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The Lesser Caucasus or Lesser Caucasus Mountains, also called Caucasus Minor, is the second of the two main ranges of the Caucasus Mountains, of length...
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Caucasus from the North, Lesser Caucasus from the West and the Talysh Mountains from the South. The name is derived from the names of the two rivers in...
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of which is in Turkey. The Caucasus is divided into the North Caucasus and South Caucasus, although the Western Caucasus also exists as a distinct geographic...
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east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of the Kura and Aras rivers, including the highland and lowland Karabakh, Mil plain and parts...
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Azerbaijani: Qabırrı) is a river in the South Caucasus that originates in the Greater Caucasus Mountains in eastern Georgia and flows south into Azerbaijan, where...
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Caucasian Albania (redirect from Caucasus Albania)
the territory between the Kura and Aras rivers. Ancient Caucasian Albania lay on the south-eastern part of the Greater Caucasus mountains. It was bounded...
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(longest river flowing through Georgia and Azerbaijan), Aragvi, Enguri (second longest river within Georgia), Kura (Mtkvari), and Rioni (longest river in Georgia)...
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Alazani (redirect from Alazani River)
Azerbaijani: Qanıxçay or Alazan çayı) is a river that flows through the Caucasus. It is the main tributary of the Kura in eastern Georgia, and flows for 351...
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them through the Caucasus. To warn the guides against playing any tricks, the Mongols executed one of them. The crossing of the Caucasus was costly for...
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Ksani (redirect from Ksani River)
is a river in central Georgia, which rises on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in South Ossetia and flows into the Kura (Mtkvari)...
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Geography of Europe (section Rivers)
the crest of the Caucasus Mountains (or, less commonly, the river Kura in the Caucasus), and on to the Black Sea. The Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and...
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Kartvelian languages (redirect from South Caucasian language)
enebi; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languages) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in...
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Great Liakhvi (redirect from Liakhvi River)
a river in central Georgia, which rises on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in the de facto independent region of South Ossetia...
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Greater Caucasus, where Mount Bazardüzü rises 4,466 meters above sea level. Eight large rivers flow down from the Caucasus ranges into the central Kura-Aras...
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the Caucasus mainly occurred between 1800 and 1864. The Russian Empire sought to control the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. South of the...
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South Caucasus Railway (Armenian: Հարավկովկասյան երկաթուղի, ՀԿԵ, romanized: Haravkovkasyan yerkat’ughi, HKE, Russian: Южно-Кавказская железная дорога,...
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Karabakh (category Geography of the Caucasus)
Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and Aras. It is divided into three regions: Highland...
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in south-western Georgia, comprising the lands in the upper basin of the Kura River (from origins of Kura River to Tashiskari) and Chorokhi River basin...
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The Greater Caucasus is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains. It stretches for about 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) from west-northwest to east-southeast...
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Akhaltsikhe (category Kura-Araxes culture)
of the small river Potskhovi (a left tributary of the Kura), which divides the city between the old city in the north and new in the south. The 9th-century...
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to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. Georgia is largely surrounded by the Greater Caucasus and Lesser Caucasus mountains...
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that stretches between the western shores of the Caspian Sea and the Kura River, centered on the Shirvan Plain. Vladimir Minorsky believes that names...
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Galayeri (category Kura-Araxes culture)
settlements are located fairly close to each other along the valley of the Kura river. Soyuqbulaq, Agstafa, another important ancient site with many kurgans...
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Maykop culture (category Archaeological cultures of the Caucasus)
The Maikop Culture in the northern Caucasus was concurrent with the Kura-Araxes Culture in the south of the Caucasus and the Uruk period in Mesopotamia...
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Arukhlo (category Archaeology of the Caucasus)
five mounds at the confluence of the Khrami and Mashavera rivers, which later join the Kura River. 8 kilometers from here are found some other sites of the...
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