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South Caucasus
The South Caucasus, also called Transcaucasia, is the region south of the main ridge of the Greater Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Today it comprises Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In antiquity it lay on the northern edge of the empires of the Near East, and it was later contested between Rome and Persia, the Ottomans and Safavids, and finally Russia, which conquered it in the 19th century.
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