Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region comprising present-day Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan between the Caucasus Mountains and the borders of Turkey and Iran.

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  • proper noun Mountainous region of southwest Asia, lying south of Caucasus Mountains and comprising republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Also known as South Caucasus.

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  • noun a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan

Etymologies

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From trans- +‎ Caucasus, translation of Russian Закавказье (Zakavkáz'je), "beyond Caucasus mountains", as viewed from the side of Russia.

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Examples

  • He rose through the state security services, and by 1930 he was running the OGPU in Transcaucasia.

    Twenty Letters to a Father 1969

  • He rose through the state security services, and by 1930 he was running the OGPU in Transcaucasia.

    Twenty Letters to a Father 1967

  • In the summer of 1917, Sarah Shor spent a vacation in Alexandropol, a Russian town in Transcaucasia, where she was forced to live for an entire year because the transport system collapsed following the revolutionary chaos.

    Sarah Shor. Grigorij 2009

  • The "German-Turkish threat to India",: Iran's occupation by Britain and British intervention in Transcaucasia and Transcaspia, 1914-1920.

    Colin Powell Writes to Gen. David Petraeus 2008

  • The "German-Turkish threat to India",: Iran's occupation by Britain and British intervention in Transcaucasia and Transcaspia, 1914-1920.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraq will not be used against Iran: Maliki 2008

  • That is why they are enduring grinding poverty and preposterous taxation, and that is why their young men are rolling up to the armies and dying without complaint in Gallipoli and Transcaucasia.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • Kikodze criticized the Soviet Union but defended Russia, which developed Tbilisi in the nineteenth century as the capital of Transcaucasia.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • Kikodze criticized the Soviet Union but defended Russia, which developed Tbilisi in the nineteenth century as the capital of Transcaucasia.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was organized, bringing together Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Transcaucasia in one federation.

    1922, April 10-May 19 2001

  • War with Persia (See 1826–28) resulted from a Persian attack on Russian possessions in Transcaucasia.

    1826 2001

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