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Wikipedia: Greater Caucasus (Russian: Большой Кавказ, Azerbaijani: Böyük Qafqaz Dağları, Georgian: დიდი კავკასიონი), sometimes translated as "Caucasus Major", "Big Caucasus" or "Large Caucasus") is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains. It stretches for about 1200 km from west-northwest to east-southeast, between the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian. The range is traditionally separated into three parts:
The border of Russia with Georgia and Azerbaijan runs along the most of its length.
![[The snow-capped peaks of the Greater Caucasus.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Georgian_caucasus_s.jpg "The snow-capped peaks of the Greater Caucasus."){kind=small}
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