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Caucasia

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Cau·ca·sia  (kô-kzh, -sh)
See Caucasus.
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Noun1.Caucasia - a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource
Circassian - a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia
Transcaucasia - a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan
Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains - the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia
Circassian - a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia


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Michelle Cliff's Abeng (1986) and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) typify a recent literary uptrend: a dramatic increase in biracial fiction, memoir, and theory, in biracial discourses of passing, invisibility, and identity.
5 infantry divisions and 7 cavalry divisions in Russia, the Ukraine, the Baltics, and Caucasia.
Works by non-Jewish writers, which precede Smith's The Autograph Man and examine the instability and multiplicity of contemporary identities through the prism of Jewishness, include, most notably, Ross's Oreo (1974) and Senna's Caucasia (1998).
 
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