 | 1833 - 874 pages
...as applied to the great mountain range which, as has been already stated, forms a continuous barrier from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Caspian, and to which alone the appellation has been applied from the time of the Greeks io our own day. The origin... | |
 | 1841 - 902 pages
...with regard to its fall or to its maintenance, what they may. But the integrity of the Ottoman empire extends from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Red Sea. It is as essential to secure the independence of Egypt, and of Syria, as the independence... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 928 pages
...with regard to its fall or to its maintenance, what they may. But the integrity of the Ottoman empire extends from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Red Sea. It is as essential to secure the independence of Egypt and of Syria, as the independence of... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pages
...is intersected by the Volga ; and a chain of forts was constructed by the Empress Catherine, which extends from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Caspian, and were designed to keep the warlike inhabitants in check, and to prevent them from making predatory excursions... | |
 | 1856 - 704 pages
...by a great number of tribes, of which the Circassians are one, is best known to foreigners — lies in the Caucasus, a range of mountains which, running...distance of thirty miles a single white conical summit towering high above the otherwise level horizon. This is the peak of Elbrus, the loftiest in the Caucasian... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1858 - 808 pages
...Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, for th* purpose of making a trigonometrical survey from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Caspian, in order to ascertain the difference of their comparative levels ; a question which had excited great... | |
 | 1858 - 810 pages
...Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, for the purpose of making a trigonometrical survey from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Caspian, in order to ascertain the difference of their comparative levels ; a question which had excited great... | |
 | Mrs. Fanny Louisa Dorothea Richardson Herbertson - 1919 - 138 pages
...TransCaucasia (95,000 square miles) in Asia. The coloured map shows that the Caucasus runs south-east, from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Caspian. The valleys of the Kur (830 miles), which is shown but not named in the map, and of the Rion, which... | |
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Caucasus, a range of mountains which, running in the direction between north-west and south-east, extends from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Caspian, and divides by its wall of rock the two continents of Europe and Asia. 