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western Greater Caucasus range Greater Caucasus Tbilisi, Georgia: Aragvi River Tsamad, North Ossetia−Alania
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Great Caucasus
Russian:
Bolshoy Kavkaz
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western Greater Caucasus range
western Greater Caucasus range The western Greater Caucasus range near Mount Dombay-Ulgen, Stavropol kray (territory), Russia.

Greater Caucasus

mountains, Eurasia
Also known as: Bolshoy Kavkaz, Great Caucasus
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Greater Caucasus
Greater Caucasus

Greater Caucasus, major range of the Caucasus Mountains, extending west-east for about 750 miles (1,200 km) from the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea to the Abşeron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea.

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